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If you know where and when to look, you can treat yourself to a colourful display of atmospheric haloes, spots and pillars. These images can tell you something about the clouds overhead and possible changes in the weather. All of these images are created by light...
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A simulated flight environment for pilot training may soon be made more realistic through the use of eye-tracking technology developed by researchers at the University of Toronto's Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IMBE).Many...
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We share many experiences with the kings of old: pastries, for instance, and home entertainment and vacation trips to far-off lands. Ancient-day common folk knew nothing of such things. Then again, they weren't constipated? We are. Not all of us, of course. But enough ...
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The mitochondria has an eggshape structure. The mitochondria consists of
an inner and outer membrane. The outer membrane is what shapes the
organelle to its egglike shape. The inner membrane which folds inward
makes a set of 'shelves? or cristae that...
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Everywhere you look you see some sort of computer. There everywhere from schools, to the grocery store checkout line, movie theatres and even in the shirt pockets of some businessmen. Back about ten years ago it was a chore to find someone with a computer, and the...
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The meaning of Hacker is one who accesses a computer which is supposably not able to be accessed to non
authorised people of the community. Hackers may use any type of system to access this information
depending on what they intend on doing in the system....
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In the 1920's there was a movement, called the melting pot, to solve the social problems of the time with the use of technology. is the use of science to solve social problems. A major leader in eugenics at the turn of the century was a man named Davenport. ...
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Computer hackers in today's world are becoming more intelligent. They are realizing that people are developing more hack-proof systems. This presents the hackers with a bigger challenge, which brings out more fun for them. The government is realizing this and...
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Computer Crime has become a very large issue in our society today; this paper will look at this issue from a sociological perspective. It will analyze the various crimes that make up computer crime and see what changes it has brought about...
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The following bulletin was prepared from Grocery Industry Committee on Solid Waste October 24, 1991 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Solid waste composting is an important component of an integrated solution for solid waste management. Composting can divert...
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Embryonic Wars
The specific objective of this major essay is to clarify and summarise the controversial debate concerning the ethical decency of embryonic cloning for therapeutic purposes. This is the form of cloning that is supposedly beneficial to a...
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One morning, several weeks ago, my father proposed that the family subscribe to the Internet-based version of the New York Times. This was, needless to say, a preposterous suggestion, voted out immediately by the rest of the family. I, for...
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Geographers can tell you that the one thing that most rivers and their
adjacent flood plains in the world have in common is that they have rich
histories associated with human settlement and development. This
especially true in arid regions which are very...
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I did my report on filariasis, which is more commonly known as elephantiasis. is the late phase of filariasis. Filariasis is a tropical mosquito born parasitic disease causing obstruction of the lymph vessels. In some people the presence of the...
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In Africa there are many types of animals, one of them is the . There are different types of s: there is the white Colobus, the red Colobus, and the olive Colobus. The is a long tailed tree living primate. The Colobus...
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Cloud formations have always been observed by people, many centuries before our time. People were always fond of clouds. They always wondered why some clouds were dark and others were white and fluffy, and why some clouds are so up high and others were so low...
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THE EFFECTS OF ALTITUDE ON HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY
Changes in altitude have a profound effect on the human body. The body
attempts to maintain a state of homeostasis or balance to ensure the optimal
operating environment for its complex...
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The topic of cloning has much confusion and controversy behind it. Some people have heard of the sheep named Dolly, she was the first organism to be successfully cloned. Also pigs have been cloned, to be used for transplants. has many goals and purposes to...
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The psychedelic effects of d-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide-25 () were discovered by Dr. Albert Hoffman by accident in 1938. In the 1950s and 1960s, was used by psychiatrists for analytic psychotherapy. It was thought that the administration of could aid the patient in...
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The societal issue being addressed in this article is the cloning of humans and nuclear cell fusion. This question lingering into every household?Should we be playing God? This question has substantial points on each side. Some people think that...
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are facial birth defects. A cleft lip affects the upper lip, ranging from a notch to a complete fissure extending into the nose. A cleft palate affects the roof of the mouth, with a groove that may extend through the dental arch. These...
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The Internet is a method of communication and a source
of information that is becoming more popular among those who
are interested in, and have the time to surf the information
superhighway. The problem with this much information being
accessible to this...
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Sensitive chromosome probes recently discovered by a University of Toronto geneticist will make it easier to detect certain types of genetic and prenatal diseases, as well as being used to determine paternity and provide forensic evidence in criminal cases. Probes are...
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1. a) Bulk movement is the overall movement of a fluid. The molecules all
move in the same direction. Diffusion however is the random movement of
molecules which usually results in a fairly even distribution. In other
words the movement is not guaranteed to move in...
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Bill Gates, the wealthiest man in North America. Readers Digest did a well brought out biography the most well know man in the business today, but doesn't go into his role in Microsoft itself, but rather in his home life and how he got so smart at...
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England went through dramatic changes in the 19th century.
English culture, socio-economic structure and politics where largely
influenced by the principles of science. Many social expressions
occurred due to these changes. Transformations which...
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Why are we as Americans so afraid to change? Even if it is a change for the better? The world has been using oil coal and other petroleum products to power just about everything that moves for the last 150 years. Yet most cars in the United States...
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A virus is an ultramicroscopic infectious organism that, having no independent metabolic activity, can replicate only
within a cell of another host organism. A virus consists of a core of nucleic acid, either RNA or DNA, surrounded
by a coating of antigenic protein and...
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What is an ?
An earthquake is a shaking of the ground caused by the sudden shifting of large sections
of the earth's crust. s are one of the most powerful events on earth, and they can be
terrifying. A severe earthquake may release energy...
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Have you ever been in a situation where you were confronted by a child who has and were unsure of how to act around that child? I?m sure many of us have experienced the awkwardness that accompanies such a situation. Many people feel guilt or pity for...
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? Can the information produced by it become a beneficial asset or a moral evil? For example, in a genetic race or class distinction the use of...
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Just about 500 years ago people believed that the earth was still flat, 50 years ago people doubted the existence of an alien life, 5 min ago the people of earth believe that aliens existed. Many individuals around the world have reportedly been contacted by extra...
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- Digital vs. Analog Cellular
When purchasing a cellular phone there is always the question of analog or digital. In analog cellular service the voice is transmitted over a specific radio frequency, usually 800 MHz. Digital cellular service on the other hand breaks the voice down...
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Outside the sprawling red brick school that serves Olentangy, Ohio's elementary and middle school students, the timeless summer ritual of Little League baseball is in full swing. A modest-sized crowd cheers enthusiastically from bleachers and lawn chairs as one...
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Definition of Religion:
Religion is norms,values, or a way of life to an individual or community. A
spiritual guide that governs the way a person lives from day to day by giving
that person hope, belief, and reason to exist in this world. ...
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is one of the most common life threatening disease in North America. One in every twenty five hundred children born in Canada has cystic fibrosis.
What is ?
is a disease with no cure and the disorder itself is...
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get their start over the warm tropical waters of the North Atlantic Ocean near the equator. Most hurricanes appear in late summer or early fall, when sea temperatures are at their highest. The warm waters heats the air above it, and the updrafts of warm,...
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Hurricanes
A natural hazard is when extreme events which cause great loss of life and or property and create severe disruption to human lives, such as a hurricane. Editor Philip Whitefield brings up an important point in ? Our Mysterious Planet? when he comments;
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Huntington's Background
Huntington's disease is inherited as an autosomal dominant disease that gives rise to
progressive, elective (localized) neural cell death associated with choreic movements
(uncontrollable movements of the arms, legs,...
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In my short life on this planet I have come to question things that many take upon blind faith. We all know that we must some day die; yet we continuously deny the forces at work inside ourselves, which want to search out the answers of what may or may not come after. It is...
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Human visual hardware is a result of a billion years of evolution within the earths atmosphere where light is scattered by molecules of air, moisture, particular matter etc. However as we ascend into our atmosphere with decrease density, light distribution is...
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Biology (B3A) Assignment follow up questions 1a) When people refer to pathogens, they are talking about bacteria that cause disease. 1b)The toxins actually excreted by the pathogens are the main cause of diseases...
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- Human Cloning
In his column, A. Arif Husain ?97 [?Critics of Cloning Can't Accept Change,? March 21] argues that President Clinton's decision to ban research on human cloning is a case of uninformed governmental meddling and obstruction of scientific research. Husain believes that...
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Mrs. Brew 13 May 1996 Intelligent Design of the Universe The search for knowledge about the origin of humanity is as old as its inhabitants. Since the early 1800's mankind has narrowed the debate to creation by a Supreme Being and the theory of evolution. Ever since...
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The Problem: I am going to find out how temperature can affect the rate of reaction.
Background information:
Factors that change the rates of reactions are:
? Temperature ' an increase in temperature will make the reaction occur...
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Respiration:
1. A cell must work just to maintain its complex structure, for order is intrinsically unstable. Because of entropy (the second law of thermodynamics), which states that any enclosed system tends...
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The Toilet Yes'those tales you?ve heard are true. The toilet was first patented in England in 1775, invented by one Thomas Crapper, but the extraordinary automatic device called the flush toilet has been around for a long time. Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400's...
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Toss a pebble in a pond -see the ripples? Now drop two pebbles close together. Look at what happens when the two sets of waves combine -you get a new wave! When a crest and a trough meet, they cancel out and the water goes flat. When two crests ...
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Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such a device that changes the way we work, live, and play is a special one, indeed. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every...
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is the process of asexual reproduction. Humans use meosis which is a process of sexual reproduction. is the process of asexual reproduction. Humans use meosis which is a process of sexual reproduction. is the process of asexual reproduction. Humans use...
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On December 10, 1986 the Greater New York Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the engineering section of the New York Academy of Sciences jointly presented a program on mining the planets. Speakers...
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Thesis: Military aircraft has become more sophisticated in variety,
effectiveness in war situations, and special maneuvering techniques in
recent years.
Military aircraft has become more sophisticated in variety, effectiveness in war
situations, and...
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Migraine headaches are the result of a disturbance in the neurochemistry of the central nervous system. They are relatively common, affecting three times as many women as men. Migraine sufferers typically report a definite pattern to their headaches, and they can report...
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You might remember the heroic role that newly-invented radar played in the Second World War. People hailed it then as ?Our Miracle Ally?. But even in its earliest years, as it was helping win the war, radar proved to be more than an expert enemy locator. Radar...
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A man came into the emergency ward at one o?clock. His thumb came in an hour later. The surgeon's job: get them back together. The successful re-attaching of fingers to hand requires long hours of painstaking work in microsurgery. In the operating room , the...
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In 1802 a farmer called Anton Mendel lived in mid-Czechoslovakia, in a small village called Hyncice.
After being in the war, Anton built a house and farmed his forty acres of land: ploughing, cultivating and trying to improve his stock of farm animals. Anton...
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Introduction
The cell membrane is a fluid structure that is made up of phospholipids and proteins. Its main function is to allow osmosis and diffusion to occur in a cell. It protects a cell from taking in molecules that are too large and other chemicals that...
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It seems as though every time we turn around there is a new health fad, be it a drug, herb or diet. Within the past 10 years the drug melatonin has hit the market and seems to have made quite a splash with the public and the media. At a time when an estimated thirty to...
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has been around forever because it is in everything that we eat, such as steak, chicken, and fish. It has been around in supplement form since the early 90's. Various professional, high school and collegiate athletes in the United States and all over the world...
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Have you ever wondered how a jet aircraft lifts its tremendous weight off the ground, or what gives a runner the stamina to reach the finish line in a race? In order to answer all these questions we must talk about the transformation of one sort of energy into...
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Introduction
Some people may be annoyed by their car ?wearing out?. Kids may have trouble with rust forming on their bicycles. One may think how to prevent rusting, but do one knows what is happening when a metal corrode?
?Corrosion...
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As the Spanish entered the capital city of Tenochtitlan they were astounded at the many marvels of the city but one of the things that most caught the eyes of the foreigners was the extensive plant growth on the lake surrounding the city. These images were...
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Coral reefs are arguably the world's most beautiful habitats. Coral reefs have been called the rainforests of the oceans, because of the rich diversity of life they support. Scientists have not yet finished counting the thousands of different species of plants and...
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are the future whether we like it or not. Some people dislike computers, because of the complications it takes to understand the basics. are not exactly the easiest tools to work with, but they are the most rewarding, and they are the future.
Future...
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Can there be a Relationship between Ecstasy and Memory in the Human Body?
Target Article: Parrott, A.C & Lasky, J. (1998) Ecstasy () effects upon mood and cognition: before, during and after a Saturday night dance. Psychopharmacology, 139, 261-268.
Additional Article:...
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In the 1950's, computers were a new race of machines and most common person did not know anything about them. Today, computers and new Innovation like the internet has changed the business world and even our daily lives. How did it change the business world...
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In the early stages of the twentieth century, little was known about cell membranes. Until the early 1950s, the biological cell membrane was rarely mentioned in scientific literature. It was recognised that something was probably there, but hardly anything...
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Lyme Arthritis
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Lyme disease is a tick-transmitted inflammatory disorder
characterized by an early focal skin lesion, and subsequently a growing
red area on the skin (erythema chronicum migrans or ECM). The disorder
may be...
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Algebra is defined by Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary
as a generalization of arithmetic in which letters
representing numbers are combined according to the rules of
arithmetic. This is not a good definition of algebra. It
would take a thick book to really...
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In this universe there are many thing that we cannot explain. Among these many things is light. Light, as far as we know, come in different wavelengths and the size of the wavelength determine what type of light it is. The middle wavelength lights are what gives us...
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In the human body, each cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, one of each pair inherited through the egg from the mother, and the other inherited through the sperm of the father. Of these chromosomes, those that determine sex are X and Y. Females have XX and males...
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Although modern evolutionists are thought to be divided on the issues surrounding evolutionary theory, a close look at the evidence suggests that both the gradualist school of thought and the punctuationist school of thought share many...
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During the past decade, our society has become based solely on the ability to move
large amounts of information across large distances quickly. Computerization has
influenced everyone's life. The natural evolution of computers and this need...
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Science is a creature that continues to evolve at a much higher rate than the beings thatgave it birth. The transformation time from tree-shrew, to ape, to human far exceeds the timefrom analytical engine, to calculator, to computer. But science, in the past, has...
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- Fritz Haber - Chemist and Patriot
The name Fritz Haber has long been associated with the well-known process of synthesizing ammonia from its elements. While primarily known for developing a process which ultimately relieved the world of dependence on Chilean ammonia, this twentieth...
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? is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that
helps everyman to see the same old world differently?. - Benoit Mandelbrot
The world of mathematics usually tends to be thought of as abstract. Complex and imaginary numbers, real
numbers,...
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Acid Rain
Introduction
Acid rain has become an environmental concern of global importance within the last decade. With the increasing environmental awareness of the ?unhealthy? condition of our planet earth the concern about acid rain has not lessened.
In brief,...
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ASTHMA
"Asthma is a respiratory disease in which spasm and constriction of the bronchial passages and swelling of their mucous lining cause obstruction of breathing." (Anastasiow 1997)
Etiology: " This disease is often due to allergies, such as dust, smoke, cold air,...
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Charles Darwin and Richard Owen
Wars occur everyday, whether it be pushing and shoving or shooting and bombing. During the 1800's, a
different war of conflict took place. This so-called war between Charles Darwin and Richard Owen circled on the
topic of...
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1)stimulus: a change in the environment that necessities a response, or adjustment by an organism (ex. swirling dust) response: the adjustment or change you make to a stimulus (ex. blinking your eyes) 2)Protists respond to a negative stimuli by moving away from...
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PREFACE In an extensive article in the Summer-Autumn 1990 issue of ?Top Secret?, Prof J. Segal and Dr. L. Segal outline their theory that is a man-made disease, originating at Pentagon bacteriological warfare labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland. ?Top Secret? is the...
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The universe is a shooting gallery and earth is the bullseye. The earth is always under threat of a doomesday asteroid that will wipe out civilization. There are over one thousand asteroids traveling toward earth and only three quarters are accounted for. Where are the other one forth?...
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Robert Boyle is considered both the founder of modern chemistry and the greatest
English scientist to live during the first thirty years of the existence of the Royal Society.
He was not only a chemist and a physicist as we know him to be, but also
an avid theologian,...
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The order Odonata is divided into three suborders: The Zygoptera, or damselflies, which can fold their wings over their abdomen, the Anisoptera or Dragonflies which can't, and thus hold their wings straight out from their thorax, and the Anisozygoptera, an ancient...
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Sputnik, name of the first of several artificial satellites launched by the Soviet Union from 1957 to 1961. The goals of the Sputnik program included studying the earth's upper atmosphere, observing animal survival in space flight, and testing Soviet rocket technology. The...
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AIDS - What's new ? ??????- Is the message getting through? We already know enough about AIDS to prevent its spread, but ignorance, complacency, fear and bigotry continue to stop many from taking adequate precautions. We know enough about how the infection is...
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Introduction
One hundred years ago, a young chemist in Germany made a discovery which, today, continues to ease our aches and pains, reduce our fevers, fight inflammation and save lives.
On August 10, 1897, this chemist, Felix Hoffmann, discovered a stable form...
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- Chemistry-soaps and detergents
Cleaning with soap and soapless detergents.
Detergent comes from the Latin word detergere meaning to clean, it is defined as a cleansing agent. Therefore, water itself is a detergent. This essay looks at soap and soapless (or synthetic) detergents. Both...
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What is Operating System?
An operating system is a program that acts an intermediary between a user of a computer and the computer hardware. The purpose of an operating system is to provide an environment in which a user can execute programs. The main purpose of...
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is a chronic bacterial disease of the skin, nerves in the hands and feet and, in some cases, the lining of the nose. is a rare disease in the United States.
Anyone can get leprosy, but children seem to be more susceptible than adults.
It is not clear how the...
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In the entire area of paranormal research today there is a great deal of controversy that swirls about . The question that comes to many people when studying is: ?Is it possible that certain individuals can channel energy to the...
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The technology surrounding everyone in modern society affects everyday activities. Since the dawn of man, humans have produced ideas to make life more enjoyable and easier. From Galileo's telescope to Gates's computers, people have developed objects to...
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We are living in the midst of a great chemical experiment, and some serious consequences are becoming apparent to scientists. More than two billion pounds of chemicals are spewed into the air each year. These chemicals are brewing a disastrous stew, resulting in an atmosphere...
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Investigate A Factor Which Affects the Rate Of Fermentation Of Yeast
This experiment is investigating one of the factors which affects the rate of fermentation of yeast.
Several factors affect the rate of reaction:
_ Increasing the concentration....
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It has long been believed that the largest entity brought upon the Earth by
humankind is the Pyramid of the Sun, constructed in Mexico around the start
of the Christian era. The mammoth structure commands nearly thirty million
cubic feet of space. In contrast, however,...
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Radioactive wastes, must for the protection of mankind be stored or disposed in such a manner that isolation from the biosphere is assured until they have decayed to innocuous levels. If this is not done, the world could face severe physical problems to living species...
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- anti-matter summary
Anti-Matter Summary
Introduction
Ordinary matter has negatively charged electrons circling a positively charged nuclei. Anti-matter has positively charged electrons - positrons - orbiting a nuclei with a negative charge - anti-protons. Only anti-protons and...
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- Anti-Matter
Chemicals in the media Anti-Matter As research continues into the field of anti-matter there might be some very interesting and practical uses of anti-matter in the society of the future. Until there is a practical use, this is merely an attempt to prove which research...
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By hottim@hotmail.com
One aspect of physics in my life is gravity. Whenever I loose my balance, whether I?m on a bike, walking, or trying to stand on one leg, I will
fall down. This is because every mass is attracted to every other mass, so my body is attracted...
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The Asynchronous Transfer Mode has been chosen as the standard system concept for integrated broadband communication networks by the ITU_T. The system is predicted to grow rapidly as soon as it becomes widely accepted by network operators and users. Why has communications evolved in...
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In our society it's a given that suntans look attractive, and it's also understoud that they can be harmful, and downright unhealthy. So what does this mean? This means that there is a multi-million dollar a year industry that researches and manufactures UV absorbing and...
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Nitrates contamination of the world's underground water supply poses as
a potentially serious health hazard to the human inhabitants on earth.
High nitrate levels found in well water has been proven to be the cause...
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Phosphates may be created by substituting some or all of the
hydrogen of a phosphoric acid by metals. Depending on the number of
hydrogen atoms that are replaced, the resulting compound is described as
a primary, secondary or tertiary phosphate....
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Recently, I interviewed someone from the Island of Orkney, off the northern shore of Scotland. He described the seas as being nutrient rich and crystal clear. Traditionally, sea weed, (called sea vegetables in Scotland) has been used for herbal remedies, food products, animal...
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The Computer Underground.
The beginning of the electronic communication revolution
that started with the public use of telephones to the emergence
of home computers has been accompanied by corresponding social
problems involving the activities of...
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The germ warfare agent anthrax is a bacterium that, if inhaled, can kill a person in a matter of days. It sounds like science fiction, like something a mad scientist developed in a lab in hopes of taking over the world. In reality is an ancient disease of live stock and humans known since...
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Mickey Mantle: What time is it?
Yogi Berra: Do you mean right now?
Though there are many analogies between time and space, there appear to be three commonplace yet deeply perplexing features of time that reveal it to be quite unlike space. These can...
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is war fought with chemicals. The development of chemical weapons and defenses against these weapons are usually considered together in military training. These weapons can be designed to kill large numbers of people, disable them for a while, or destroy their...
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When Newton proposed his axioms describing fundamental laws of physics, he insisted on the necessity of absolute space to a completed theory of mechanics. Absolute space can be best described as not-relationally-dependent space. Newton purports that there...
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Of all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries there is one whose name is
known by almost all living people. While most of
these do not understand this man's work,
everyone knows that its impact on the world of
science is astonishing....
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Alzheimer's Disease is a progressive and irreversible brain disease that destroys mental and physical functioning in human beings, and invariably leads to death. It is the fourth leading cause of adult death in the United States. Alzheimer's creates...
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Myopic little men in tuxedos, or highly efficient land/water animals? Recent research indicates there's more to penguins than meets the eye. If you?ve every wondered what it would be like to be able to see as clearly under water as you can on land, just ask the nearest...
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Attention Deficit Disorder is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. There appears to be a deficiency in the brains ability to produce or use certain chemicals called transmitter substances or neurotransmitters. The theory is that a shortage of certain...
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?Today millions of people are bypassing the offices of their family physicians, internists, gynecologists, and pediatricians in favor of...
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Everybody knows what the chicken pox are, they are
when you get bumps all over your body. The cause of the
chicken pox is the virus varicella. Males and females are
both able to get the virus, but children ages five to six are
the most likely to be infected.Like I said...
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Curtis Shephard
: Immortality or total annihilation?
Technology has evolved from ideals once seen as unbelievable to common everyday instruments.
Computers that used to occupy an entire room are now the size of notebooks. The human race has...
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Hypogravitational Osteoporosis: A review of literature. By Lambert Titus Parker. May 19 1987. (GEnie Spaceport) Osteoporosis: a condition characterized by an absolute decrease in the amount of bone present to a level below which it is capable of maintaining the...
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Of all gynecologic malignancies, ovarian cancer continues to have the
highest mortality and is the most difficult to diagnose. In the United States
female population, ovarian cancer ranks fifth in absolute mortality among
cancer related deaths (13,000/yr). In...
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is a very common metal, still used widely today. It was first discovered by Hans Christian Oersted at Denmark in 1825. Oersted reacted aluminum chloride with potassium amalgam. Heating these two substances under reduced pressure caused the mercury to boil away,...
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Growing Transitions
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Introduction
In the United States of America, one to three percent of the school age population have the full attention deficit (hyperactivity) Disorder syndrome (Internet site 1). This numerical figure may not seem to convey a need...
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Do you think muscles are important? Do you have an idea of what they are made of? Well, here is some food for thought: your muscles make up forty percent of your body weight. If you like that interesting fact maybe you'll learn some more.
The muscular system...
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- Biology term paper - tigers
The tiger is part of the kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Carnivora, family Felidae, subfamily Panthernae, genus/species Panthera tigris. Tigers have round pupils and yellow irises
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Acupuncture is a Chinese medical practice that treats illness
and provides local anesthesia by the insertion of needles at
predetermined sites of the body. Acupuncture may also follow
many other forms. The word acupuncture comes from the Latin
word acus, meaning needle,...
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Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease that is caused by a herpesvirus called varicella-zoster virus (7). Chickenpox is one of the most easily transmitted of contagious diseases (5). Ninety to ninety-five percent of the people exposed to the virus will develop...
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Environmental demand for cleaner air has put a heavy burden on the automobile, much improved by stringent exhaust stands but still a significant source of pollution. High cost, technological obstacles and the resistance of the public to abandon gasoline...
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For a fusion reaction to take place, the nuclei, which are positively
charged, must have enough kinetic energy to overcome their electrostatic
force of repulsion. This can occur either when one nucleus is
accelerated to high energies by an...
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The Alphabet is: A .- B -? C -.-. D -.. E . F ..-. G '. H ?. I .. J .? K -.- L .-.. M ? N -. O ? P .'. Q '.- R .-. S ? T - U ..- V ?- W .' X -..- Y -.' Z '.. 1 .?- 2 ..? 3 ?' 4 ?.- 5 ?.. 6 -?. 7 '? 8 ?.. 9 ?-. 0 ?' There you have it! There are also puncuation marks but...
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Biology Coursework Practical ' Heat Loss
The aim of this practical is to find to what extent does the surface area to volume ratio of an object affect the rate of heat loss from the object
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Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
Everybody knows at least on person with a difficulty of staying still, sustaining attention or inconvenient impulses. For some people the problem is so serious that it is regarded as a psychiatric disorder. Formally known as...
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As most people know our energy supply is slowly running out. We are using energy sources that either pollute the air, take up natural resources or cause damage to other forms of life. Today, we are working on other forms of energy that do not pollute or...
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- Adolescent Depression: The Under Acknowledged Disease
Adolescent Depression: The Under Acknowledged Disease
Psychology
Depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tends to act and react abnormally toward others and themselves. Therefore it...
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A Look at the Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay is America's largest estuary and one of the world's most productive. The Bay is home to over 2,700 species. It draws water from over 150 rivers, streams, and creaks, receiving roughly 70,000 cubic feet of water every...
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The title of the Journal that I used is The Dynamics of Flight-Initiating Jumps in the Common Vampire Bat Desmodus rotundus and was written by William A. Schutt, Jr, J. Scott Altenbach, Young Hui Chang, Dennis M. Cullinane, Juhn W. Hermanson, Farouk Muradali, and John E. A. Bertram. ...
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- Sociology - The Comparative Method
Sociologists have embraced what is known as the comparative method as the
most efficient way to expose taken-for-granted 'truths? or laws that people
have adopted. But what is this comparative method and how does it work?
Are there any...
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- What is a V-chip
This term has become a buzz word for any discussion evolving
telecommunications regulation and television ratings, but not too many reports define the
new technology in its fullest form. A basic definition of the V-chip; is a microprocessor
that can decipher...
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I. Introduction
A vector is an arrow whose length represents the magnitude of a quantity and whose direction represents the direction of the quantity. Vectors are useful in combining velocities that are not parallel. The sum of two or more component vectors is called a...
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Thesis: We once believed that Earth is the only planet in the Universe
that supports life. Today there is overwhelming evidence that
not only suggests, but supports the very real possibility that we
may share the Universe with other intelligent...
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ATOMIC BOMBS
In 1945, the bomb explosion on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was one of the most
devastating in all history. The bomb that struck them without notice produced
devastative effects. Bombs today are getting larger and stronger. The technology of weapons nowadays has...
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There is no longer a question of whether or not a bioterrorist will attack, but rather the question remains, when will they attack? 'It is highly likely that a terrorist group could threaten or attack Americans with germs within the next few years,' according to President...
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April 29, 1996
Social and Political Reactions to Polygamy
?We are a peculiar people,? Elder Bruce R. McConkie once said (McConkie 25).
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of a few ?odd? Christian religions.
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Attention Deficit Disorder
Attention deficit disorder is a condition characterized by the attention span that is less than expected for the age of the person. There is often age inappropirate hyperactivity and impulsivness. Attention deficit disorder is broken down in three sub...
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is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. It strikes about 4 million people a year in the U.S.. 100,000 women become infertile each year from a pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), which plugs up or scars the filopian tubes, so the...
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Alcohol is a depressant, as it switches off part of the brain, which controls our judgment. The immediate effect of alcohol is to alter mood. When drinking, most people become more relaxed and happy. The more drinks consumed the greater the effect - speech...
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CHOICE IN COMPUTER-MEDIATED ENVIRONMENTS
Abstract
In the last several years, the increased diffusion of computer and telecommunications technologies in businesses and homes has produced new ways for organizations to connect with their customers. These...
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Virtual reality as of recent, while still extremely new, has become the
topic of many opposing viewpoints. It has caught the eye of the general public
for several reasons. Perhaps, this is mainly because of all the possibilities
which virtual reality creates. Note...
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Picture in your mind the skyline of downtown Toronto. There's the CN Tower, of course, and the 72-floor First Canadian Place, the city's tallest skyscraper. Cascading from there are the assorted banks and hotels and insurance towers. Now, use your imagination to...
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The Biological Effects of Radiation
Whether the source of radiation is natural or man made, whether it is a small dose of radiation or a large dose, there will be some biological effects. Radiation causes ionizations of atoms, which will affect molecules,...
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, ancient art practiced especially in the Middle Ages, devoted chiefly
to discovering a substance that would transmute the more common metals into
gold or silver and to finding a means of indefinitely prolonging human life.
Although its purposes and techniques were...
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After the Atomic Bomb
Introduction
The development and usage of the first atomic bombs has caused a change in military, political, and public functionality of the world today. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki revolutionized warfare by killing large masses of...
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Atom & Qi
The atom is the smallest portion of a substance that is not perceivable by human senses. The notion of atoms was conceived by ancient Greeks and was developed over thousands of years of scientific inquiry. The concept of qi as the most basic substance of which the...
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- Simeon Poisson - Biography
Simeon Poisson's most important works were a series of papers on definite integrals and his advances in Fourier series. Originally forced to study medicine, Poisson began to study mathematics in 1798 at the Ecole Polytechnique. His teachers Laplace and...
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Bioremediation of Explosives in Contaminated Soil
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TNT is not the kind of substance that most people think of composting, but it can be done! At several U.S. Army depots, the water used in processing explosives was disposed of...
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Chlamydia
Chlamydia is caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis, hence the name; Chlamydia The word chlamys is Greek for "cloak draped around the shoulder.' This describes how the intracytoplasmic inclusions caused by the bacterium are "draped" around the infected cell's...
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Causes & Cures
In this essay I plan to analyze a dangerous disease that is infecting people through the U.S. This disease is called affluenza it is very contagious and once infected with the disease it is difficult to unseat. Affluenza us characterized as an unhealthy...
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There have been many researches and tests done on the genetic causes of and how it developes, as well as it's effects on the circulatory, muscular, and respiratory systems, as well as it's effects on the joints and other systems of the body, and...
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Reaching the Breaking Point
Have you ever heard a heterosexual talking about a homosexual, saying things like 'Jake would be a cool guy if he wasn't such a flamer' or 'I don't have a problem with gays,...
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Computer Illiteracy
There is a problem out there that haunts many troubled souls in our society. It is powerful. It can strip the pimple-faced class whiz of all his sickening pride. It can make the intelligent person feel like a complete idiot. It can make the...
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Silicon is the raw material most often used in integrated circuit (IC) fabrication. It is the second most abundant substance on the earth. It is extracted from rocks and common beach sand and put through an exhaustive purification process. In this form, silicon is...
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The global energy balance and atmospheric motion mainly determine
the circulation of the earth's atmosphere. There is a hierarchy of motion
in atmospheric circulation. Each control can be broken down into smaller...
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The term biomechanics means the study of the structure and function of biological systems using the methods of mechanics. studies the process of kinematics and develops artificial limbs and footwear specifically to aid the body in performance. The study of biomechanics...
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The saw whet is rarely heard at night, unless it is during mating season. During it's mating season it can be heard easily from the woods. It's breeding season in between March and April. Usually the nest in is a hollow tree. Decayed wood fibre matted with owl's...
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Since the beginning of time, man has sought to explain the world around him. This is called philosophy, a Greek word which means "love of wisdom." However, over the millennia it has come to mean much more. The philosophies of the ancient Chinese people,...
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Aedes Aegypti
The mosquito that has attracted the most attention is the mosquito Aedes
aegypti. It belongs to the family Culcidae, consisting of about 2,500 species
(Encyclopedia Britanica 1999), along with other genera of mosquitoes such as
Anopheles, Culex,...
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orbit the earth doing our bidding in ways that enrich the lives of almost all of us. Through electronic eyes from hundreds of miles overhead, they lead prospectors to mineral deposits invisble on earth's surface. Relaying...
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Introduction
Computers affect the lives of nearly everyone living today. No matter where it is that someone calls their home; there is almost a certainty that they have some sort of daily interaction with computers or some kind of computer driven device. Every morning,...
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- AIDS: Is it a Modern Plague?
AIDS: Is it a Modern Plague?
In some parts of the world there are still wars being fought and dictators in power. There are societies which consider themselves at the peak of evolution and progress. They are able to create state of the art automobiles,...
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Two years ago, the Chrysler corporation completely gutted its Windsor, Ontario, car assembly plant and within six weeks had installed an entirely new factory inside the building. It was a marvel of engineering. When it came time to go to work, a whole new work force...
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Compounds That Compose the Human Body
There are five major groups of compounds that compose the human body. They are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleotides, and water. These are all very important to humans and without them we would not be able to...
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INTRODUCTION
One of nature=s most spectacular phenomenons to date is the once mysterious aurora. This dazzling show of lights has been working its magic for people around the world for several years. But, few know the cause of this amazing light display. It is the purpose...
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The mosquito that has attracted the most attention is the mosquito Aedes
aegypti. It belongs to the family Culcidae, consisting of about 2,500 species
(Encyclopedia Britanica 1999), along with other genera of mosquitoes such as
Anopheles, Culex,...
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Since the beginning of time, man has sought to explain the world around him. This is called philosophy, a Greek word which means "love of wisdom." However, over the millennia it has come to mean much more. The philosophies of the ancient Chinese people, whether...
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Computer Graphics
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
How It Was 3
How It All Began 4
Times Were Changing 6
Industry's First Attempts 7
The Second Wave 10
How the Magic is Made 11
Modeling 12
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Running Head: ADHD ON INTELLIGENCE
Social and Bio-genetic Influences
of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
on Child Intelligence
The subject of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has undergone intense research in the past decade. Much...
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Ecological issue: Deforestation, logging
Issues:
' Effects wildlife habitats \ biodiversity
' Increases soil degradation erosion.
' Carbon storage - leads to more Carbon dioxide in atmosphere - leads to global warming
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Auriga, the Charioteer is the last of the autumn
constellations with a right ascension of six hours and a
declination of 41.73 degrees. Auriga is an ancient Northern
Hemisphere constellation featuring one of the brightest
stars in the sky: Capella. Auriga is usually...
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In 1918 the United States experienced one of the worst epidemics in its history. With 500,000 dead in a matter of 6 months, the Spanish influenza left its mark. With approximately 11.7 million dead worldwide, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome(AIDS) is still leaving its mark. It is a...
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Introduction-Computers are changing the world as we know it, and they provide an interesting field of occupations.
I. Definition of a computer engineer
A. Definiton
B. Creation of new jobs
II. Change in society
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Crohn's Disease
(Regional ileitis)
Intro (use part or all of this if your need it for the introduction)
Crohn's disease is named after the physician who described the disease in a paper written in 1972. It is also called Morbus Crohn's, Granulomatous enteritis,...
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The phenomenon of bipolar affective disorder has been a mystery since the 16th century.
History has shown that this affliction can appear in almost anyone. Even the great painter
Vincent Van Gogh is believed to have had bipolar disorder. It is clear that in our society
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Attention Deficit Disorders have become a very highly controversial
topic during the last decade. Attention Deficit Disorder, also known as ADD,
is a broad, almost generic term for the different types of...
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Introduction
Air pollution is nothing new. Ever since the discovery of fire, less-than-desirable substances have been vented into the air. One of the first air-pollution regulations dates back to the fourteenth century, when King Edward I banned the burning of sea...
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). What is it? What causes it and why? Can I get it? How can I prevent myself from getting it? All of these questions can be answered. The main problem besides having AIDS, is not being educated...
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Chromosome Probes at the University of Toronto Uploaded: November 29, 1986. Sensitive chromosome probes recently discovered by a University of Toronto geneticist will make it easier to detect certain types of genetic and prenatal diseases, as...
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Computers Mimic the Human Mind
The mind-body problem has captivated the minds of philosophers for centuries. The problem is how the body and mind can interact with each other if they are separate and distinct. One solution to the problem is to replace any...
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Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), is the most common psychiatric disorder among children today. It's symptoms are not necessarily obvious and start at various times. Some children give indication of having the disorder before they are born, ...
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Bipolar Disorder: Its Causes and Effects
At least 2 million Americans suffer from bipolar disorder, more commonly known as manic-depression. This illness usually begins in adolescence or early adulthood and continues throughout life. Although it may come into affect at any...
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rsity of Toronto Uploaded: November 29, 1986. Sensitive chromosome probes recently discovered by a University of Toronto geneticist will make it easier to detect certain types of genetic and prenatal diseases, as well as being...
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People across the world keep dogs as pets. These dogs are usually a big part of their owners lives and often grow up to truly be, "man's best friend,". What, then, can be done for a dog with behavior...
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AIDS and YOU (May 1987)
By Martin H. Goodman MD
(this essay is in the public domain)
Introduction:
AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS disease
is at present a sentence of slow but inevitable death. I?ve
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Computer Viruses
A computer virus is an illegal and potentially damaging computer program designed to infect other software by attaching itself to any software it contacts. In many cases, virus programs are designed to damage computer systems maliciously by destroying of...
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Autumn, in a deeper sense, is a magnificent ending to an era. Although all the leaves fall and the sun fails to shine for as long each day as it did during the summer, the death of the cycle of the living seasons is spectacular. It brings vibrant color, tolerable...
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Manic-depressive illness, or bipolar disorder, is a psychiatric disorder and brain disease is characterized by severe mood swings, from mania to depression. Bipolar Disorder is a biological disease of the brain. It is caused by a chemical imbalance. It affects more than 2...
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is a separation technique in which the mixture to be separated is dissolved in a solvent and the resulting solution, often called the mobile phase, is then passed through or over another material, the stationary phase. The separation of the original mixture depends...
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Agent Orange
Agent Orange is a plant killer, which was used during the Vietnam War to destroy the massive amount of trees (Nguyen, 1). The destruction that occurred, however, is far more extensive than once believed. Complications in health occur much more frequently to those...
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Isolated in their own worlds, people with autism appear indifferent and remote. They are normally unable to form emotional bonds with others. Although people with this brain disorder can display a wide range of symptoms and disabilities, many are incapable of understanding...
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The
The AIDS virus is one of the most deadly and most wide spread diseases in the modern era. The disease was first found in 1981 as doctors around the United States began to report groups of young, homosexual men developing a rare pneumonia caused by...
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Computer Virus
It Is Contagious
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Chlamydia
is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted disease in the United States today. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 4 million new cases occur each year. The highest rates of chlamydial infection...
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The problem of bipolar affective disorder has been a mystery since the 16th century. It has shown that this affliction can appear in almost anyone. Even the great painter Vincent Van Gogh is believed to have had bipolar disorder. It is clear that in our society many people...
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Summary:
This paper looks at the controversial issue of climatic change. In particular, it develops the question of if and why earth's climate is changing? The roles of man, naturally occurring trends, and earth's cycles are considered, and an outlook for what...
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Air Pollution
Air, is the most essential element for all living organisms and yet, most humans play a big role on polluting this essential resource. Air pollution may not be as dangerous in its direct outcome as nuclear or water pollution can be, but in the long term it...
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(May 1987) By Martin H. Goodman MD (this essay is in the public domain) Introduction:AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS disease is at present a sentence of slow but inevitable death. I?ve already lost one friend to AIDS. I...
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COMPUTER SCIENCE
COMPUTER SCIENTIST/PROGRAMMER
The rapid spread of computers and computer-based technologies over the past two decades has generated a need for skilled, highly trained workers to design and develop hardware and software and to make computer systems...
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Cleaning Up after the Exxon Valdez Was A Mistake
Through many hours of research I have determined that the spill cleaning techniques used to clean the Prince William Sound area of Alaska did more harm than leaving the oil where it was. The...
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REG MITCHELL's defence of ``Frankenfoods'' -- genetically engineered (GE)farm products -- in his Oct. 9 article ``So-called Frankenfoods have no more pathogens than are found in nature'' is a repetition of the mantra we hear daily from the global corporations that dominate...
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Abstract 2
2. Introduction 3
3. CISC Technology 4
3.1 Characteristics 4
3.2 The Advantages of CISC 5
3.3 The Disadvantages of CISC 5
4. RISC Technology 6
4.1 Characteristics 6
4.2 The Advantages of RISC 7
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Finding good day care can certainly pose a problem these days, unless, of course, you?re an African widow bird. When it comes time for a female widow bird to lay her eggs, she simply locates the nest of a nearby Estrildid finch and surreptitiously drops the eggs...
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According to statistics, motor vehicle accidents are the number one leading cause of unintentional injury-related deaths, making up close to 45% and more than quadrupling all other causes. Although these statistics can be overwhelming knowing...
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The Three categories of disease are very different from one another. Communicable, Chronic and Degenerative and Hereditary and Genetic Disorders all have their own types of treatments and or cures and are all spread differently.
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California condors are the largest birds in North America. They may weigh up to 25 pounds and have wingspans of 9 1/2 feet. California condors have bare heads and necks, dull gray-black feathers, and blunt claws. They have a triangle-shaped patch of white, visible only when airborne, that...
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Running Head:
Social and Bio-genetic Influences
of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
on Child Intelligence
The subject of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has undergone intense research in the past decade. Much of...
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Where does come from? What are the effects of ? What can we do about ? These are the three questions I hope to answer today. is a pollutant in our society and can be even seen as synonymous to the word evil, due to the fact that...
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The theory that black holes have existed is not new at all. The thought of them first started in 1783 when Rev. John Michell applied Newton's theory of gravity to predict the possibility of so-called 'dark stars.' Albert Einstein's theory of relativity predicted in 1915...
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The complexity of the human reproductive system is unbelievable baffling. The fact that the egg even leaves the protection of the ovary and starts its journey down the fallopian tube is remarkable. The process by which the sperm manage to scurry...
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The disease called aids is becoming very widespread in the United States. The
question is why. In the following paragraphs the answers to this question will be answered.
Aids is the final, life-threatening stage of...
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are vertebrate, or backboned animals constituting the class
Reptilia and are characterized by a combination of features, none of which
alone could separate all reptiles from all other animals.
The characteristics of reptiles are numerous, therefore can not be
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A LOOK AT ANEMIA RELATED TO NUTRITIONAL ISSUES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Dating back to the 18th century concretions have been known as geologic curiosity's due to the various sizes, shapes and compositions. have also been thought to be dinosaur eggs, extra-terrestrial debris, human artifacts and animal and plant fossils. Due to these...
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Jason's case is not unmoral for children of his age. After taking into consideration all of his ailing factors and noted symptoms it is apparent that Jason is suffering from Glomerulonephritis. Glomerulonephritis is the term used for several related diseases that damage...
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- Calcium transport study of SF-9 lepidopteran cells
Calcium transport study of SF-9 lepidopteran cells and bull frog sympathetic ganglion cells
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Black Holes
What are black holes? Black holes are the remains of a massive star that has collapsed and shrunk to a tiny point in space. They have all of the gravity of the star concentrated into a miniscule point many times smaller than the original. Black holes are difficult...
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'Many years ago, I watched a young boy rock back and forth as he worked a crossword puzzle. I tried to distract him from working the puzzle to ride bikes with me. I continuously asked him to play with me, but he kept staring at the puzzle while I attempted to look in his eyes. He...
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AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, is a recently
recognized disease. It is caused by infection with the human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV). AIDS is a complicated illness that may
involve several phases. It is caused by a virus that can be passed from
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AROMATHERAPY
Aromatherapy according to Aromatherapy by Anna Selby is derived from the ancient practice of using natural plant essences to promote health and well-being. It consists of the use of pure essential oils obtained from a wide assortment of plants, which have been steam...
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is the inflammation of the bronchi. It may
develop suddenly, following a head cold (acute bronchitis), or it
may persist or return regularly for many years, causing
progressive degeneration of the bronchi and lungs (chronic
bronchitis). Certain people are...
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DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS OVER THE DECADES
What is a computer?
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"It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burthen; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!"
(Horace first century B.C.)
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For some time she had watched his movements, appearing coyly in his haunts. And now, had it paid off? Doubtless, he was in love. His muscles were taut; he swooped through the air more like an eagle than a Greylag gander. The only problem was, it was not for her that...
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Methods of
Birth control pills are an oral contraceptive for women. They are monophasic, biphasic, or triphasic. Each type contains estrogen and progestin in differing amounts. Monophasic birth
control pills maintain the same levels of estrogen and progestin...
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There are many diseases and disorders that plague today's society, but one of the most serious of those disorders is autism. Autism is not nearly as widely known as the familiar Down's Syndrome, yet, surprisingly, autism is far more widespread. In fact, autism is the third most common...
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AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Disease. It is caused by a virus.
The disease originated somewhere in Africa about 30 years ago. There it first appeared as a mysterious ailment afflicting primarily heterosexuals of both sexes. It probably was spread primarily by female...
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"It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burthen; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!"
(Horace...
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To quote Karl Marx, blue boxing has always been the most noble form of phreaking. As opposed to such things as using an MCI code to make a free fone call, which is merely mindless pseudo-phreaking, blue boxing is actual interaction with the Bell System toll network. It...
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- Computers-how they affect our lives
Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such a device that changes the way we work, live, and play is a special one, indeed. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in...
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Near the Earth's poles a magnificent spectacle of shimmering colored light can sometimes be seen --- the aurora. The aurora is called the aurora borealis (Northern lights) and the aurora austrails (Southern lights); it can appear as bright as a full moon. The aurora usually...
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The purpose of this written report is to inform the reader about the concerns and facts involved with reforestation. began in Ontario after World War II. What happened was, professional foresters were assigned to an area and became responsible for its...
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The phenomenon of bipolar affective disorder has been a mystery since the 16th century.History has shown that this affliction can appear in almost anyone. Even the great painterVincent Van Gogh is believed to have had bipolar disorder. It is clear that in our society
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Acid Rain
Acid rain is caused by extra amounts of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Natural sources of sulphur oxides and nitrogen oxides do exist, but are balanced by nature. Normal rain reacts with alkaline chemicals from the region's bedrock that are in the air, soils,...
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ALBINISM . The word albinism refers to a group of inherited conditions. People with albinism have little or no pigment in their eyes, skin, or hair. Recently a test has been developed to identify carriers of the gene for ty-neg albinism and for other types in...
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Into the Depths of A Black Hole Everyday we look out upon the night sky, wondering and dreaming of what lies beyond our planet. The universe that we live in is so diverse and unique, and it interests us to learn about all the variance that lies beyond our...
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, which is the study of value judgments pertaining to human conduct in the area of
biology and includes those related to the practice of medicine, has been an important aspect of
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Continental Drift
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ACHONDROPLASIA is known as being undersized, or less than 50in. in height. Having short limbs, a normal sized trunk, large head with a depressed nasal bridge and small face. This is a result of a disease in the thyroid gland. It can also be caused by Down syndrome or absorption, a...
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The human immune system is an amazing system that is constantly on the alert protecting us from
sicknesses. Thousands of white blood cells travel in our circulatory system destroying all foreign
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According to the American Association of Premature Infants (AAPI), over 400,000 babies are born prematurely or at a low birth weight. As a result of being born early they are more likely to require high-technology intensive and specialized care in the hospital and follow-up care...
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In the 1920's, Leonard Lowe is a normal ten year old boy who is attacked by a mysteriously crippling disease. The onset of the disease manifests itself in periods of what I can only term 'suspended animation.' At one moment, the victim is engaging in a normal activity,...
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Every culture known to history and anthropology has seen in the heavens distinctive patterns, called constellations, and formed by the stars. are usually comprised of bright stars that appear close to each other. Oriental cultures (the ancient Chinese, for example)...
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In the late 1800's it was discovered that papa-amino-phenol, could reduce fever, but the drug was too toxic to use. A less toxic extract called phenacetin was later found to be just as effective but also had pain-relieving properties. In 1949, it was learned...
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Picture this. A man is involved in a severe car crash in
Florida which has left him brain-dead with no hope for any
kind of recovery. The majority of his vital organs are
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I went online and found out a lot of information about boiling water. If you cover the tin and allow the water and air to cool down, the air will cool and contract, lowering the pressure in the tin. If it lowers enough, the partial vacuum will collapse the walls of the can! The...
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Introduction
is the branch of surgery dealing with mechanical devices used to reproduce the form and function of missing body parts. is the replacement of faulty or amputated body parts with artificial body parts. Artificial limbs have been in...
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In the 1920's, Leonard Lowe is a normal ten year old boy who is attacked by a mysteriously crippling disease. The onset of the disease manifests itself in periods of what I can only term 'suspended animation.' At one moment, the victim is engaging in a normal...
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Consciousness is understood in a variety of ways. In one belief, a person is conscious when awake, but unconscious when sleeping or comatose. Yet people also do things requiring perception and thought unconsciously even when they are awake. A...
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Human embryo cloning should not be done because of the religious, moral, ethical, and social concerns that it places upon the human race. Although there may be some positive affects to cloning humans, there are far too many opposing factors in this situation. Many religious leaders of...
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"" is the force with which your heart pumps blood through the body. Occasional increases in blood pressure levels are not unusual.
Hypertension
Hypertension is high blood pressure. When heart beats (contracts and
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It is always a mystery about how the universe began, whether if and when it will end. Astronomers construct hypotheses called cosmological models that try to find the answer. There are two types of models: and Steady State. However, through many observational...
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To Whom It May Concern:
My name is bubba smith, and I am a freshman male at the University of Florida. It has come to my attention that our wonderful state has done something terrible. That something is the allowance of abortions. What is an abortion you might ask? Well it is...
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Consciousness is understood in a variety of ways. In one belief, a person is conscious when awake, but unconscious when sleeping or comatose. Yet people also do things requiring perception and thought unconsciously even when they are awake. A person can be...
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repeats an anomaly when compared with the terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, the Earth and Mars) or the giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune). This icy world is more like a huge asteroid or the satellites of the outer planets; it has even been...
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Avalanche Testing and Safety
White soft fluffy snow, hard to imagine something so innocent could be so destructive. Just picture a few tons of snow traveling down the mountain at approximately 80 miles per hour, taking down everything in its path. have been a threat as...
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Running the Race to Obtain the Prize?
Each year athlete's ability to perform seems to increase by leaps and bounds. Some reasons for this can be attributed to better training methods, better conditioning techniques, and better over all health of the athlete. While most...
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Acid from the clouds
Lake Barkevatn in Aust-Agder county used to have healthy stocks of trout and perch. As a result of acid rain, the trout stock died out in the mid-1970s and the perch stock at the beginning of the 1980s.
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Imagine yourself observing one of the most diverse ecosystems on earth. Thousands of species of plants and animals provide a dizzying array of color and motion. Massive structures provide a canopy that shelters hundreds of exotic species in a myriad of...
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1. Introduction:
This report is the first stage of the design, construction and testing
of a balsa wood structure. In April, the design will be tested against
classmates? designs, where the design with the highest load/weight ratio
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Cloning humans is a threat to our society. It presents a vast number of problems that arise with each new discovery. The first is the decrease in distinct genetic make-up. Cloning also brings up many ethical points dealing with creation and psychological well being of clones. Cloning...
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by far has been one of the most remarkable discoveries of this time. It has helped light up our fireworks on the Fourth of July, allowed us to use guns, and to make smoke. The history of black powder is considered to be founded in Italy around the time of the thirteen...
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Micheal Pollan's ?Playing God in the Garden? addresses the many unseen aspects of farming and the technologies that are being designed to make planting effortless and safe. Pollan discusses how New Leaf (the plant company which has created...
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Bacterial Resistance
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Coral reefs are one of the oldest types of living systems on earth, and certainly one of the most spectacular. They are massive underwater structures formed by the limestone skeletons of tiny invertebrate animals. Reefs house a greater diversity of body forms, chemistry, and animal...
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Acid rain is exactly what it suggests- rain that is acidic. The definition of "acid rain" is rain with a pH of below 5.6. Rain becomes acidic because of gases that dissolve in the rain. Approximately 70% of acid rain is a result of dissolved sulfur dioxide (SO2) which forms...
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Scientists have finally found out why MPA medroxyprogesterone, otherwise known as Provera performs just as well in low doses in small children who are dealing with early sex traits, as it does for women in high doses with breast cancer. You may have heard of Provera before as...
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U OF T PROFESSORS DEVISE BETTER WAY TO TEST SIGHT IN BABIES In a darkened room at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, a baby, its head dotted with electrodes, sits in its mother's lap and watches flashing black and white checkerboards and...
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Newspaper Article Essay: "In Layman's Terms"
Authors of modern scientific journalism convey information to target audiences in differing formats, depending solely on the level of education of the audience and how the issue might affect their lives. As a result, publications come in...
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The report that you are about to read is about coral reefs, their habitats, and the problems that they are facing. I chose coral reefs for my project because I have always been interested in marine biology, and I am a fan of the ocean as well. As what you are about to read...
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Is it Right, or Wrong?
Is genetic engineering right or wrong? That seems to be the newest question of biology. In some ways its right, but in some ways its wrong.
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BACTERIAL CONJUGATION EXPERIMENT
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A rocket in its simplest form is a chamber enclosing a gas under pressure. A small opening at one end of the chamber allows the gas to escape, and in doing so provides a thrust that propels the rocket in the opposite direction. Newton's laws can be used to explain this his laws...
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The Effects of on Lakes and Trees
Acid rain has long been argued by society's most formidable minds. It indirectly
destroys ecosystems that surround forests and lakes (Taylor, 26). People need to make decisions
dealing with the destruction of nature and the...
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As a by standee over viewing the preparation and or the act of courtship in the coral reef fishes, one may think they have taken leave of their senses. The bicolor damselfish tends to quiver while performing a headstand. Blue pullers engage in a series of high-speed jumps. ...
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Just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Urged by Hungarian-born physicists Leo Szilard, Eugene Wingner, and Edward Teller, Einstein told Roosevelt about Nazi German efforts to purify Uranium-235 which...
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Clinical Depression: a disease like any other.
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Copper comes from a Latin term cyprium (after the island of Cyprus) meaning "the metal of Cyprus." Copper dates back to prehistoric times but has been mined for 5000 years, however it's exact discoverer is unknown. Cu is Copper's chemical symbol. It contains 29 protons/electrons...
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INTRODUCTION
The topic of this paper is the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV, and
whether or not mutations undergone by the virus allow it to survive in the
immune system. The cost of...
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Describe the structure and life processes of bacteria.
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INTRODUCTION
Today in society there is a lot of pressure on the perfect image. Image is the way that everything is judged in the world. So with that perspective in mind, the search for the "perfect body" is what everyone is looking for. But with all of the commotion that is...
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Creatine
Creatine is a substance that is used in athletics; it has both good and horrible effects. The effects of Creatine might include faster development of the muscles in your body, but the side effects can be drastic and are said to be extremely dangerous. Yet this product is...
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The global energy balance and atmospheric motion mainly determine
the circulation of the earth's atmosphere. There is a hierarchy of motion
in atmospheric circulation. Each control can be broken down into smaller
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is caused by pollution containing sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and ozone ( SO', NOx, and O' ) is released into the air.
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The coyote is considered to be one of the last species of primitive dogs. It is called the master adapter and the ultimate survivor. Based on these titles alone, one can conclude that the coyote has thrived despite the habitat change implemented by human development and expansion. The...
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[WR122 paper, using Jefferson's ?Declaration of Independence? as a model]-RJ
The Declaration of Language
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Clinical depression is very common. Over nine million Americans are diagnosed with clinical depression at some point in their lives. Many more people suffer from clinical depression because they do not seek treatment. They may feel that depression is a personal weakness, or...
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Albert Einstein was on of the most popular men of all time. When one thinks of Einstein, they think "scientist," or maybe, "genius." Well he was both of those, but not only those. Einstein was a meek man, an ingenious man also, a man that could invent any-thing in the world...
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Bacillus Anthracis
Robert Koch discovered Bacillus Anthracis, the bacterium for the deadly disease, Anthrax, in 1877. Robert Koch grew the bacterium into a pure culture, demonstrated its ability to form endospores, and produced experimental Anthrax by injecting it into...
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AIR POLUTION
Problem:
The first thing people see, in the morning, when they walk outside is the sky or the colored sun. Is this world giving us the privilege of seeing the natural colors of the sun through all the layers of pollution within the air (Dinanike 31)? Not...
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The basic astrological assumptions are not hard to grasp. For if astronomy is the study of the movements of the heavenly bodies, then astrology is the study of the effects of those movements. The astronomers of the ancient world assumed a division of the universe whereby...
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Acid rain is a type of precipitation with high acidity caused by the polluted atmosphere. It comes down in different types of precipitation such as: rain, snow. hail, or sleet. Acid rain is gradually wearing down our environment, affecting countries in almost every continent.
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"It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burthen; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!"
(Horace first century B.C.)
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Introduction:
Cystic fibrosis is an inherited autosomal recessive disease
that exerts its main effects on the digestive system and the
lungs. This disease is the most common genetic disorder
amongst Caucasians. Cystic fibrosis affects about one...
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Cloning Cloning is the production of a group of genetically identical cells or organisms, all descended from a single individual. The members of a clone have precisely the same characteristics, except where mutation and environmentally caused developmental variation have occurred. The...
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Can you get the health benefits of wine without the alcohol?
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Bacillus Anthracis
Robert Koch discovered Bacillus Anthracis, the bacterium for the deadly disease, Anthrax, in 1877. Robert Koch grew the bacterium into a pure culture, demonstrated its ability to form endospores, and produced experimental Anthrax by injecting it into...
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A class is chemical compounds, all if which consists of chemically bonded atoms of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen all alcohol molecules contain at least one hydroxyl group. When people say alcohol they usually think of beer, wine, or liquor, but there are several types of alcohol.
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is in the purses and backpacks of over millions of people around the world. Americans consume more than 80 billion tablets of aspirin a year. The drug has an incredible past and an amazing future. The past of aspirin reaches as far back as Hippocrates in the fifth...
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Genetic Engineering / Cloning
Genetic engineering, altering the inherited characteristics of an
organism in a predetermined way, by introducing into it a piece of the
genetic material of another organism. Genetic engineering offers the
hope of cures for many...
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Science , ancient art practiced especially in the Middle Ages, devoted chiefly to discovering a substance that would transmute the more common metals into gold or silver and to finding a means of indefinitely prolonging human life. Although its purposes and techniques were...
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INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this experiment is to explore the hardness of the water on campus. Hard water has been a
problem for hundreds of years. One of the earliest references to the hardness or softness of water is in
Hippocrates discourse on...
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ABSTRACT
This report involves a well description on acid rain as well as a focus on acid rain in eastern Canada. This report contains a very helpful basic background on acid rain as well as a questionnaire. It involves an annual report on the Federal-Provincial Agreements,...
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Alcoholism has been a problem throughout the history of humanity, a disease which has caused many people to be overcome with burdens, problems, and debts. Alcoholism is a term that is widely recognized throughout the United States and the World. Alcoholism is a...
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Bengal Tiger
Length: up to 10 feet
Weight: 400 to 575 pounds
Number of young:1 to 5
Home: India and Southeast Asia
The Bengal tiger lives in Southern Asia. It was hunted, captured,and poisoned to such an extent that is practically disappeared, except in natural...
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"Alcohol is a socially acceptable, legal drug that is consumed by the majority of Americans without problems to themselves or others (Milgram xiii)." Misuse of alcohol can lead to alcoholism, one of the most widespread and complex problems in America. The reasons some people...
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Recently, the media has spent an increasing amount of broadcast time on new technology. The focus of high-tech media has been aimed at the flurry of advances concerning artificial intelligence (AI). What is artificial intelligence and what is the media...
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Millions of people. They all look alike, think alike, and dress alike. Sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel, right? Well, with cloning it's possible, maybe. They will look alike, but that's about it. Cloning will help the world, not make it the same. Three pros to cloning...
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Choosing a career in botany ensures a person a wide choice of career opportunities, a fair salary, and an exciting life. If you prepare yourself with a good education and a positive attitude, you'll be well on your way to becoming a successful botanist.
Anyone can find...
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Limbo of the Lost. The Twilight Zone. Hoodoo Sea. The Devil's Triangle. The vast three-sided segment of the Atlantic Ocean bordered by Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, did not receive its most famous nickname until 1964, but reports of bizarre...
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The Acid Rain Pain
With scientists and so-called 'experts' on the environment disagreeing on so many issues, it is easy for the public to be lost in the fray of what is truth and what is media hype. Though the term 'acid rain' has been present in our society since the early...
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Alcohol consumption Alcohol, probably the oldest drug known, has been used at least since the earliest societies for which records exist. Of the numerous types of alcohol, ethyl alcohol is the type consumed in drinking. In its pure form it is a clear substance with little odor....
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(287-212 BC), was a preeminent Greek mathematician and inventor, who wrote important works on plane and solid geometry, arithmetic, and mechanics. was born in Syracuse, Sicily, and educated in Alexandria, Egypt. In pure mathematics he...
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Among the masters of the sea, lies a sluggish monster. Cetorhinus
maximus is just that, although more generally known as the Basking shark. This
interesting animal has some unusual characteristics which include its physical,
behavioral, reproductive, and feeding...
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Alcoholism
Alcoholism, chronic and usually progressive illness involving the excessive inappropriate ingestion of ethyl alcohol, whether in the form of familiar alcoholic beverages or as a constituent of other substances. Alcoholism is thought to arise from a combination of a...
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Ditions enclose roughly the same territory, which is somewhat larger than the region bounded by the Arctic Circle, and will be used as the basis for this article.The largest Arctic tundra areas are in Canada, Russia, Greenland (Kalatdlit-Nunat), Scandinavia,...
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Cloning:
Is there a good side to human cloning?
Technology is changing the world as we know it. Not all of these advances in technology are viewed as positive. One of the breakthroughs that has received mixed responses is the issue of cloning. There has been much debate on this...
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My report is on . is a hard, brittle
semimetallic element with
an atomic number of 5. is in group 13 of the periodic
table
Compounds of boron, borax, have been known since
early years.
Although the pure element was first prepared in 1808 by a...
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Water is the common link among the five biomes and it makes up the largest part of the biosphere, covering nearly 75% of the Earth's surface. Aquatic regions house numerous species of plants and animals, both large and small. Without water, most life forms would be...
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What is acid rain? Acid rain is caused by emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Although natural sources of sulphur oxides and nitrogen oxides do exist, more than 90% of the sulphur and 95% of the nitrogen emissions occurring in eastern North America come from human...
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Introduction:
Ballard Power System is the world leader in developing and commercializing proton exchange membrane fuel cell power systems. At the heart of this corporation is the Ballard Fuel Cell, a propriety zero-emission engine that converts natural gas,...
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BASIC DISCRIPTION OF MICROBIOLOGY
They're out there! You can't see them but they can see you. Right at this very moment they are living on and in your body, and there is nothing you can do about it!
This may sound like the beginning of a...
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Abstract
The current information technology mediums, such as the Internet pose exciting new opportunities for researchers and educators and, at the same time, present numerous questions and challenges. One of the current frustrations of many faculty includes...
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The lion is known as king of the jungle because of its huge size and ferocious appearance, the most common type of lion is the African lion. The African lion has the genus species Panthera (panther, leopard) leo (lion). Panthera leo has the common name lion and...
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Is there a good side to human cloning?
Technology is changing the world as we know it. Not all of these advances in technology are viewed as positive. One of the breakthroughs that has received mixed responses is the issue of cloning. There has been much debate on this...
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Alternate Energy Resources
As most people know our energy supply is slowly running out. We are using energy sources that either pollute the air, take up natural resources or cause damage to other forms of life. Today, we are working on other forms of energy that...
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- Anti-Matter
Introduction
Ordinary matter has negatively charged electrons circling a positively charged nuclei. Anti-matter has positively charged electrons - positrons - orbiting a nuclei with a negative charge - anti-protons. Only anti-protons and positrons are able to be...
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Acid Rain
Acid rain is a term which is used to describe a variety of processes which might more accurately be referred to as acidic deposition. Natural rainfall is slightly acidic due to dissolved carbon dioxide, picked up in the atmosphere. Organisms and...
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Abstract
The current information technology mediums, such as the Internet pose exciting new opportunities for researchers and educators and, at the same time, present numerous questions and challenges. One of the current frustrations of many faculty includes...
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MONERA
The Monera Kingdom, though not often recognized by all people, has a profound effect on all of our lives. Its cell structure is simple, containing one or a colony of cells. It has no nucleus, no organelles, a cell membrane, and only certain members of...
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Reefs
reefs are arguably the world's most beautiful habitats. reefs have been called the rainforests of the oceans, because of the rich diversity of life they support. Scientists have not yet finished counting the thousands of different species of plants and...
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Barbiturate. Now where would you think of a name like that? Legend has it that this drug was derived when a 29 year old research assistant, Adolph von Baeyer, was working in his Belgian laboratory in 1863 when he took the condensation of malonic acid and combined it with Urea. Von...
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- Computers - Invention of the Century
Computers: Invention of the Century
The History of Computers Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such devices changed the way we manage, work, and live. A machine that has done all...
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Lab Report
The structure of the earth is made up of many layers, but the crust and the
upper mantle make up the lithosphere. The lithosphere is divided into
individual sections called plates. The rest of the mantle makes up the
asthenosphere. ...
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Medical history has been filled with an array of diseases and illnesses, ranging from the common cold to deadly killers. Some are easily treatable and others can be terminal, but some of the worst are those that still remain without a cure; one such disease is amyotrophic lateral...
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CLONING: HAS SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR?
INTRODUCTION
For years the subject of cloning has captured the imaginations of authors, movie directors and much of the human population. Cloning is the prospect of creating an animal or even a person that is...
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Over the years, man has come up with countless inventions, each more resourceful than the last. However, as the computer age continues, mankind is threatened. Ridiculous, some may say, but I say look around! The computer has already begun to control so many of the...
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Breast Implants
Why do women get breast implants? Do the breast implants make them feel good about themselves? are a serious threat because, there are many risks involved, there are many disorders that are possible, and there are illnesses that you...
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Acid rain is a serious problem with disastrous effects. Each day this problem seems to increases, many people think that this issue is too small to deal with, this problem needs to be solved head on and it should be solved before it gets too late. In the fallowing paragraphs I will...
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School Of Computer Science
Florida International University
Abstract
Wireless technology can provide many benefits to computing including faster response to queries,
reduced time spent on...
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A drug is a chemical that interacts with other substances to alter or change something. In the United States, drugs are a major part of everyday life. Whenever you have a cup of coffee, drink tea, or flavor something with condiments such as sugar or salt, you are using...
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- Bio-report
1.) Cellular Transport
a.Osmosis
Osmosis is the diffusion of water molecules across a differentially permeable membrane from a region where water molecules are more concentrated to one where they are less concentrated. The transport of water is simple the cell being...
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Muscle enhancers are exactly what they say they are. They are dietary supplements and drugs that increase mass and build muscle bigger and faster. There really is no reason for muscle enhancers to be fake. They work for almost all people. However it's not whether or not...
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In the United States in 1995 alone, 43,063 died from breast cancer. It is the number two cancer killer and the number one cancer in females ages 15 to 54. On average if a woman gets this disease, their life expectancy drops nineteen and a half years. This cancer is within the top...
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Cloning and Embryo Research: The Science Fiction Reality
The idea of cloning a life form seemed like something read from a science fiction novel just ten years ago. Now, the theories, ideas and facts of cloning embryos have made cloning one of...
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About 47 per cent of the energy that the sun releases to the earth actually reaches the ground. About a third is reflected directly back into space by the atmosphere. The time in which solar energy is available, is also the time we least need it least - daytime....
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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
Beach Formation in California coast
Beaches are dynamic landforms altered by wind and waves in a continual process of creation and erosion. Seasonal cycles of sand deposition and loss dramatically affect the appearance of beaches from summer to...
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Acid Rain is a type of air pollution, which is formed when oxides of sulfur and nitrogen combine with atmospheric moisture to yield sulfuric and nitric acids, which may then be carried long distances from a source before they are deposited by rain. This pollution may also take the...
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Solar cells today are mostly made of silicon, one of the most common elements on Earth. The crystalline silicon solar cell was one of the first types to be developed and it is still the most common type in use today. They do not pollute the atmosphere and they leave...
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Software license agreements emerged as the most popular means of protection of proprietary rights in computer software. They coexist with other forms of intellectual property rights as patent and copyright. Software license agreements serve several...
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The current vehicles that are powered by gasoline pollute, but as technologies improve and the human way of life changes alternatively powered vehicles enter the automotive industry. These vehicles developed to achieve better gas mileage and to help slow the production...
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Computer Monitoring, Forging Tools for the Future
Computer Monitoring is most often intended to improve efficiency and effectiveness in the workplace, but with good intentions comes the opportunity for abuse by employers and employees...
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In 1993 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and international software cost $12.5 billion to the software industry, with a loss of $2.2 billion in the United States alone. Estimates show that over 40 percent of U.S. software company revenues are generated...
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Breast Cancer in Women
As most of us look ahead into what we expect for our future, we will envision a life of good health, success and family. What if the health factor was not good? What if the woman in the family became ill with one of the most uprising and...
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Colorado River
Geography Colorado River Geographers can tell you that the one thing that most rivers and their adjacent flood plains in the world have in common is that they have rich histories associated with human settlement and development. This especially true in arid...
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In this term paper, I will explain the great importance of the tropical
Rainforests around the world and discuss the effects of the tragedy of
rainforest destruction and the effect that it is having on the earth. I will
talk about the efforts...
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Acid Rain INTRODUCTION: Acid rain is a great problem in our world. It causes fish and plants to die in our waters. As well it causes harm to our own race as well, because we eat these fish, drink this water and eat these plants. It is a problem that we must all face together and try...
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Three Toronto scientists have developed an organ transplant procedure that could, among its many benefits, reverse diabetes. The procedure was developed by Bernard Leibel, Julio Martin and Walter Zingg at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for...
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Ever since the publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species was published, there has been an ongoing debate between science and religion. Scientists have formulated many theories as to the origins of man and to the creation of the earth, whereas religious groups...
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It is always a mystery about how the universe began, whether if and when it will end. Astronomers construct hypotheses called cosmological models that try to find the answer. There are two types of models: Big Bang and Steady State. However, through many observational evidences, the Big...
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The discovery of cloning can be both beneficial and harmful to society. There are many reasonable methods of cloning. For instance, the use of cloning for medical purposes can be helpful in taking human DNA and creating new body parts. Because of the...
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In one year, America will have exhausted 80% of her petroleum reserves. Will we then go to war with the Arabs for the privilege of driving our cars? Will we strip-mine our land for coal and poison the air we breathe to drive our autos an additional 100 years? Will we...
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Color Blindness
Many people refer to problems with one's ability to see color as color blindness, however, unless a person can't see any color at all, color vision problems should be called by another term. Common terms are abnormal color vision, color deficiency and color...
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The Moon is the only natural satellite of Earth. The distance from Earth
is about
384,400km with a diameter of 3476km and a mass of 7.35*1022kg. Through
history it has had many names: Called Luna by the Romans, Selene and
Artemis
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Chemical reactions are the heart of chemistry. People have always known that they exist. The Ancient Greeks were the firsts to speculate on the composition of matter. They thought that it was possible that individual particles made up matter.
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A paper by Bryan Togias
Introduction
The following paper is about the resumption of whaling by Norway with a focus on the
American attitude towards whaling in general. Whaling is a very sensitive issue for many
people, including...
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Everday we hear more bad news about our planet. Reports tell us that wildlife and forests are disappearing at an alarming rate. Newscasts give the latest word on how quickly earth is losing its protective shirld and warming up. Newspapers lament the pollution of...
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CREATINE
, Beneficial or Waste of money? Having finally resolved to work out at the gym, you sweat and toil for weeks on end only to look in the mirror and see little to show for it. It's the paradox of the New Year's resolution exerciser. Seeing physical results can help...
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Archeologists have toiled for years trying to piece together the puzzle of past civilizations. Archeology, however, can be classified as a form of glorified grave robbing, rather than a way to recreate and understand the...
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Airflow over an airfoil
Flight is one of the most important achievements of mankind. We owe this achievement to the invention of the airfoil and understanding the physics that allow it to lift enormous weights into the sky.
All flight is the result of forces acting upon...
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SOLAR ENERGY -- THE ENERGY OF THE FUTURE? About 47 per cent of the energy that the sun releases to the earth
actually reaches the ground. About a third is reflected directly back into space by the atmosphere. The time in which solar
energy is available, is also the time we...
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We live on a planet believed to be 4.5 billion years of age with millions of people covering all parts of it. Where did they come from? Did the whole human population originate from one of people or were we placed here and then improved or changed by an...
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Cold Fusion: The Continuing Mystery
In March of 1989, a discovery was made that rocked the scientific world. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischman had announced that they were able to create and sustain a cold fusion process. After intense media attention, and corresponding...
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The bullfrog belongs to the family Ranidae and is commonly known for their deep resonant croaks, large body size and large ears (tympani). These frogs have a body size of 20cm/ 8in and have legs that are longer than the body (25cm/10in). They reside in the United...
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Artificial Insemination
, test-tube fertilization, frozen storage of embryos and surrogate parenting. For many people, these new and often controversial procedures of artificial reproduction hold out a last hope for starting a family. What happens...
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). What is it? What causes it and why? Can I get it? How can I prevent myself from getting it? All of these questions can be answered. The main problem besides having...
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Creatine
Athletes today will do almost anything to get an edge. One of the primary things an athlete will do is put supplements into their body. These supplements range from protein shakes to illegal anabolic steroids. Some sports supplements are incredibly safe and...
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1. Background
Napster software, launched early in 1999, allows internet users to share and download MP3 files directly from any computer connected to the Napster network. The software is used by downloading a client program from the Napster site and then...
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, C(6)H(6), is a clear, colorless, flammable liquid that is insoluble in water.Its boiling point is 80 degrees C (176 degrees F). In the past benzene was obtained from
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The importance of mining is definitely significant to Canada. Mining, is an important industry, and Canadians are very advanced in their mining technology, but during the mining process, there is certain level of pollution ...
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Alternative Energy Sources
In the not-too-distant future -- with regard to history's timeline -- there will come a point when fossil fuels will have been depleted and humans will be forced to find alternative sources with which to power automobiles, household heating...
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How Can Artificial Intelligence Help Us?
Introductory Paragraph, including thesis statement
I. Description of Artificial Intelligence
A. Descriptions of AI
1. Definition of AI
2. Coined in 1956
B. How AI can be achieved
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CLUBFOOT
is defined as a congenital foot deformity characterized by a kidney shaped foot that turns inward and points down. The forefoot is curved inward, the heel is bent inward, and the ankle is fixed in planter flexion with the toes pointing down. Shortened tendons...
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Not All Black And White
Christmas is a time of joy, but the Christmas of 1988 was one of
revelation for me. My best friend of 15 years unveiled her deepest,
darkest, most private secret; she was bulimic. I was unfamiliar with the
disorder at the time, but when she...
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Water is the most important substance in our evolution and our daily lives. Without water,
life as we know it would not have been possible. This essay will examine the water molecule
in order to ascertain how it brought about Earth's...
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The aging process is difficult to analyze because of the way that the body's organ systems work together. The breakdown of one structure will ultimately affect the function of others. The medical field of gerontology deals with examining the biological...
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OXIDATION OF CYCLOHEXANOL
TO CYCLOHEXANONE
The oxidation of cyclohexanol to cyclohexanone involves the
removal of hydrogen from the OH group. After separation and
purification, an Infrared Spectrum will be run to determine the
composition of the recovered...
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Introduction
There are more than 115 different types of arthritis. Some are very serious and hold the potential for severe disability and deformity, if left untreated. Others may generate only mild discomfort, which may be totally controlled with relative...
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Classification Essay
Cloud formations have always been observed by people, many centuries before our time. People were always fond of clouds. They always wondered why some clouds were dark and others were white and fluffy, and why some clouds are so up high and others were so low...
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Research on animals is important in understanding diseases and developing ways to prevent them. The polio vaccine, kidney transplants, and heart surgery techniques have all been developed with the help of animal research. Through increased efforts by...
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Most people today believe that the world is a better place than it was 20 to 30 years ago. But I, on the other hand, believe that the world is becoming a very dangerous place. Even though the world's superpowers condemn nuclear and biological warfare, I believe...
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The Bubonic Plague, or Black Death, had many negative as well as positive effects on medieval Europe. While being one of the worst and deadliest diseases in the history of the world,it indirectly helped Europe break grounds for some of the basic necessities forlife today.
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Arthritis
Exercise is very commonly prescribed for arthritis, but that's about as far as it all too frequently goes. In other words, doctors give patients too little detail or instruction, with few illustrations, and no precise direction. Yet many of the most troublesome and...
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Cetaceans
There are many forms of cetacean life living in the worlds waters. How an why they came into existence is uncertain, but there have been many theories. Some say that dolphins are aquatic forms of goats, and others believe they evolved just like...
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Comparison of Plant and Animal Cells
Introduction
Eukaryotic cells are very complex; there are many organelles, each serving a distinct function, present in eukaryotic cells. We can divide the eukaryotic group of cells in to two main...
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Melt Suspension Crystallization (MSC) is a technique, that can be used for large scale separation and ultrapurification of organic compounds. Because of the high selectivity of crystallization, the moderate operating conditions, and the relatively low latent heat of fusion, the energy...
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Research on animals is important in understanding diseases and
developing ways to prevent them. The polio vaccine, kidney transplants,
and heart surgery techniques have all been developed with the help of
animal research. Through...
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The Development and Control of Chemical and Biological Warfare
The year, 600 BC. Solon, the legislator of the Athenians, contaminated the River Pleisthenes with hellebores (skunk cabbage) to give the defenders of Kirrha violent diarrhea leading to their defeat....
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Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease is a progressive and irreversible brain disease that destroys mental and physical functioning in human beings, and invariably leads to death. It is the fourth leading cause of adult death in the United States. Alzheimer's creates...
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Chemical bonds are what make up the world. In bonds, elements are held together and form compounds that may have new physical and chemical properties. There are two main kinds of bonds, they ionic and covalent. In bonding the goal of the atoms involved is to reach a level of...
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Comparing Ballistics of the .30-06 and .270
I have written this science research paper to compare ballistics of a .270 and a .30-06. This paper will also make my decision on which one I will purchase next. If I fire the .270 and the .30-06 rifles...
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This essay concentrates on the heavy metal cadmium, and its occurrence in the environment, its pathways into and out of the human body and its movement into and out of Sewage sludge. Firstly, I will provide a clear definition of the Heavy...
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Place In Periodic Table
Phosphorus (P), arsenic (As), antimony (Sb), and bismuth (Bi) form a group of four elements in Group 5A of the periodic table. They exhibit increasing metallic properties going down the group. Nitrogen (N), which heads the group, is a colorless, odorless, and...
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BIOETHICS
Progress in the pharmacological, medical and biological sciences involves experimentation on all living species, including animals and humans. The effectiveness of medications investigative procedures and treatments must at some point be tested on animals and...
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Cryogenics and the Future
Cryogenics is a study that is of great importance to the human race and has been a major project for engineers for the last 100 years. Cryogenics, which is derived from the Greek word kryos meaning "Icy Cold," is the study of matter at...
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is a worldwide research effort with the goal of analyzing the structure of human DNA and determining the location of the estimated 100,000 human genes. The DNA of a set of model organisms will be studied to provide the information...
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Common Cold
What is the common cold? A common cold is a contagious viral infection of the upper respiratory tract. The symptom of a common cold are stuffy nose, congestion, runny nose, fever, headache, cough, sore throat or fatigue in the body. A common cold could have one or a...
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Alzheimer's disease is a slowly progressive, degenerative disorder of the brain that eventually results in abnormal brain function and death. The disease was first described in 1907 by a German physician, Dr. Alois Alzheimer(1864-1915). In the neurological autopsy on the...
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Have you ever wondered what astrology is? has been around for many years, but many people don't understand what astrology is, who used astrology, and it's connection with the zodiac.
Many people don't know this, but the actual term astrology comes from two words, which...
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COMETS
have been witnessed ever since man has been speculating about objects in the nighttime sky and appear in records from the beginning of recorded civilization (Schweighauser 20).
are made up of four distinct features. The first is the nucleus. The nucleus is...
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The
I'm going to talk to you about the , Where it lives, how it hunts, how the grass helps the cheetah, mating, and what you can do to help the endangered species.
The (Acinonyx Jubatus) is the fastest land mammal on earth, capable of speeds of 60-70...
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Cable Modems
Cable modems emerged in consumer markets as an alternative to ISDN and regular modems only a couple of years ago. Promises like speed up 30 Mbps to connect to the internet sounds very attractive given that the service charge is only $35-$55 a month. But the...
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INTRODUCTION
In today's society, people are gaining medical knowledge at quite a fast pace. Treatments, cures, and vaccines for various diseases and disorders are being developed constantly, and yet, coronary heart disease remains the number one killer in the...
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Back to the 1940s, the modern electronic computer was developed at U.S. universities; however, in the year, there was no computer education yet. It needed more 10 years to have computer education. The period of the computer revolution was 1950 in the U.S.. ...
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s is an entire field of physical science. It is the study of matter at temperatures much colder than those that occur naturally on Earth. temperatures are considerably lower than those encountered in ordinary physical processes. There is another field of interest...
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ASTHMA AND HOW MEDICATION ALLOWS FOR INCREASED PERFORMANCE
Asthma is a medical condition characterized by breathing difficulty that occurs when the air tubes leading to and inside the lungs become obstructed. Asthma negatively...
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Computer Aided Drafting and Design
CADD stands for Computer Aided Drafting and Design. By using the computer for the functions normally utilized by hand, a greater amount of efficiency can be attained. By drawing lines with a computer on a screen,...
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The Care It Takes
Taking care of an elderly person can be a difficult thing to, do especially when they have a disease called 's. According to the Encarta Encyclopedia, "'s is a disease marked by progressive loss of mental capacity." This is the exact problem...
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Cheetah
(Acinonyx Jubatus)
I chose to do my television project on the cheetah which I saw on
the Discovery Channel. Although I knew some interesting characteristics
on the cheetah, I did happen to discover some facts I did not know. Those of which are written in the rest...
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CHOICE IN COMPUTER-MEDIATED ENVIRONMENTS
Abstract
In the last several years, the increased diffusion of computer and telecommunications technologies in businesses and homes has produced new ways for organizations to connect with their customers. These...
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There are several different methods to achieve communication between computers. In the case of the Internet, most people use a telephone modem to establish a connection between their computer and the computer that gives them access to the Internet. ...
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The greenhouse effect occurs when gases such as methane, carbon dioxide,
nitrogen oxide and CFCs trap heat in the atmosphere by acting as a pane of
glass in a car. _The glass_ lets the sun light in to make heat but when the
heat tries to get out the gases...
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Comparisons of Upper and Lower Shore Rock Pools
In the following study, rock pools from the upper and lower shore of Bracelet
Bay, were examined and the organisms within noted. The contents of the two pools were compared. The abiotic...
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- Crude operatons - oil and the environment
Crude Operations:
Oil and the Environment
The environmental impacts of offshore oil drilling greatly outweigh the economic benefits provided. Although it has been a continuous activity for more than a decade, One can not help but wonder why...
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(AD) is one of the most fatal disease in America. It strikes
More than 4 millions of personne. Unfortunately, it also attacks a lot of loved one. And these loved ones are our parents, husband, wifes,
Brother or sisters. And we have to take care of them. But how can we deal...
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is a very common skin disease. It can come in the form of blackheads, whiteheads, red spots and even boils (nodules or cysts). Although anyone can have acne, the majority of the cases are found in teenagers. Most of the problems are found on the face, chest, upper back, and...
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Introduction to Cancer
The individual unruly cell that has escaped the normal regulatory control mechanisms is the basic unit of cancer.
Inside the nucleus is a substance called DNA, which contains genetic information for the body, organized in units called genes. These...
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In the last ten years, computers have become a necessity in our lives. We use them to program cars, buy grocery stores, run factories and in almost any area of technology imaginable. We use them on a daily basis in our homes and offices to do tasks such as word processing to...
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CLONING: HAS SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR?
INTRODUCTION
For years the subject of cloning has captured the imaginations of authors, movie directors and much of the human population. Cloning is the prospect of creating an animal or even a person that is...
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- Acid rain: scourge from the skies
Acid Rain: Scourge from the Skies
'North Americans have been smelting ore and burning fossil fuels for generations. In the past, the gases went up ordinary chimneys or small smoke stacks, to descend upon near by areas and pollute them,' states author,...
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Canadian Black Bear
The Canadian Black Bear There are 8 kinds of bears (Ursus) in the world but I chose the North American Black bear (Ursus americanus). I will be covering general information about the bear such as their size, weight, color, food, etc., but I will...
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The Environmental Impacts of Large Dams
Land and water are ecologically linked in a natural system called a watershed. From the smallest
droplet to the mightiest river, water works to shape the land, taking with it sediment and dissolved materials
that drain to...
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What is ?
is an organic brain syndrome which results in global cognitive impairments. can occur as a result of a variety of neurological diseases. Some of the more well known dementing diseases include Alzheimer's disease (AD), multi-infarct dementia...
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Adaptions in Ectothermic and Endothermic animals to extreme climates
First of all we need to understand what ectothermic and endothermic animals are.
Animals differ in their abilities to regulate body temperature...
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A device for storing an electrical charge is called a capacitor or electrical condenser. in their simplest form consist of two metal plates, which are separated by a nonconducting layer called the dielectric. As one plate gets charged with a direct- current...
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The United States has a very diverse heritage. There is no "American" race. Americans are the blending of many cultures throughout many generations. With this blending of cultures comes a blending of genes. In the past, genes have not been well understood. They...
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What Is General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
General Adaptation Syndrome is a theory formulated in 1936 by Dr. Hans Seyle, a celebrated figure in the field of stress research. Gas depicts the process of prolonged exposure to stress by separating behaviors into 3 stages. ...
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It has been estimated by the National Institute on Drug Abuse that every year 40,000 babies are born to mothers who have used cocaine during their pregnancy. Unfortunately, the outcome is unfair for these children, because the mothers do not take...
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Cannibis Sativa Throughout history marijuana has been used to serve various purposes in many different cultures. The purposes have changed over time to fit in with the current lifestyles. This pattern is also true in American history. The use of marijuana has adapted to the social...
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Deep Ocean Trench
A trench is any long, narrow, steep-sided depression in the ocean bottom. The deepest known depression of this kind is
the Mariana Trench, which lies east of the Mariana Islands in the western North Pacific Ocean . Of the Earth's 20 major trenches, 17...
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The unique nature of diamond is heavily dependent upon its composition, crystal structure, and mechanical, thermal, and electromagnetic properties.1 Of those dependencies, composition exacts the most influence over the characteristics. Crystal structure is the repeating pattern of...
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John Dalton developed the first useful atomic theory of matter around 1803. In the course of his studies on meteorology, Dalton concluded that evaporated water exists in air as an independent gas. Solid bodies can't occupy the same space at the same time, but water and air...
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Contents
1. Introduction
2. What is a data warehouse
3. Past, Present and Future
4. Data Warehouses and Business Organisations
5. Conclusion
6. Bibliography
1.0 Introduction
In recent years, data warehousing has emerged as the primary...
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Alternative medicine, long dismissed by mainstream doctors, is getting a second look as many people in the United States have turned to acupuncture to treat a variety of problems. Proponents of acupuncture have accumulated many statistics and surveys in favor of this...
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(ALS), sometimes referred to as "Lou Gehrig's Disease," is a progressive fatal neuromuscular disease that attacks nerve cells and pathways in the brain and spinal cord. Motor neurons, among the largest of all nerve cells, reach from the...
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One of the scariest emotional experiences a person can ever suffer during their lifetime is to experience a form of depression. Over one in five Americans can expect to get some form of depression in their lifetime. Over one in twenty Americans have a depressive disorder every...
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People are, by nature, very gullible, nieve and border on ignorance. There are very few that strive for understanding. Most accept what is told them by friends, the media and the government without question. Take for, instance, the calorie. Millions of Americans read the labels of...
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According to the American Psychological Association over 17 million Americans have depression (Par. 1). Depression is triggered by many things; whatever the trigger, it is much more than a simple case of 'the blues.' Depression is a serious illness that can take a terrible toll on...
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CYSTIC FIBROSIS
I am the doctor for your hospital and have prepared the following paper for you to look at and possibly use. It includes information on what cystic fibrosis really is, what treatments there are, what you two can do for your child, and how it is inherited. ...
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GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
By Sean Griffiths
Physics 200
The human population is currently using up its fossil fuel supplies at staggering rates. Before long we will be forced to turn somewhere else for energy. There are many possibilities such as hydroelectric...
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The American Crocodile
''How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently...
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Global Warming
Global Warming, aside from pollution is one of scientists biggest concerns. Global Warming is caused by the Greenhouse effect. There are 4 steps in the Greenhouse effect. 1-Sunlight radiates from the sun, through space, to Earth's atmosphere. 2- The
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Alligator mississippiensis is in the family Crocodylidae. This family has existed since the upper Triassic period, but the modern family members appear in the fossil record as little as 80 million years ago. There are three subfamilies, Alligatorinae, Crocodylinae, and...
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California Water Pollution
Water pollution is the major problem in our world today. The state of California also has many water problems of it's own. Many living things suffer from polluted water. Humans, animals, and other organisms depend on water to live. ...
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GLOBAL WARMING
In 1992 the United States and nations from around the world met at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio and agreed to voluntarily reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000. The Rio Treaty was not legally binding and, because reducing...
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Brain cell research offers hope for
Alzheimer's
NEW YORK, Feb 28 (Reuters Health) -- Taking cells from a
region of the brain known as the hippocampus, an international
team of researchers have grown functional brain cells in lab
cultures. The findings may have...
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And their effect on the built environment
They are known as Hurricanes in the Caribbean, Typhoons in the China Sea, in the Indian Ocean and most commonly called Tropical . You can call them what you want but they all have one thing in common: they are extremely...
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Internet Firewalls:
Introduction
The Internet is a complex web of interconnected servers and workstations that span the globe, linking millions of people and companies. But there is a dark side: The convenient availability of valuable and sensitive electronic...
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As far back as 2700 B.C.. Chinese Emperor Shen Nung regularly imbibed hot brewed tea. Coffee was regarded by some Westerners as "the devil's brew" until the late sixteenth century, when Pope Clement VIII tasted it and gave it his blessing. is the most popular drug in the...
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The earth's climate is predicted to change because human actions are altering the chemical composition of the atmosphere through the increase of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. is a problem that everybody should be aware...
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INTRODUCTION
DigiFile has been serving the Houston community since 1992. Originally a litigation support company, they evolved into a total solution service organization for electronic document management. They offer conversion services, both at their...
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The question of how man evolved has been pondered since man first stepped foot on this planet. Many great philosophers and explorers have made attempts to try to answer this question. Charles Darwin was one of these people. Darwin led a full life of exploration, and during these...
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As the world's expanding population burns large quantities of fossil fuels and simultaneously cuts down large expanses of forests worldwide, the concentrations of CO2 and other greenhouse gases are building up in the atmosphere. "The green house effect is the (imperfect) analogy...
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Are Anabolic Steroids Safe
Even if you didn't have any or little knowledge of steroids and were asked this question, you would probably answer no. Why? Would it be because a high school kid somewhere in California died from taking them? Or would it be because you read it...
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Caffeine
As can be seen above, caffeine consists of two carbon/nitrogen rings with oxygen and methyl groups as substituents. The fused rings are similar to those in adenine only the substituents differ. Caffeine is found in coffee, tea, and many soft drinks. There is also some...
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These days Intranets are becoming more and more popular throughout the business world and other types of organizations. Many companies and organizations are already making this change and many more are considering it. The advantages offered by Intranets when compared to other types of...
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ANABOLIC STEROIDS JUST THE FACTS
Report #5 - 6/28/00
Anabolic steroids are widely abused drugs that promote protein synthesis and decrease protein catabolism in muscle cells. They have been also called performance enhancing drugs because of their ability to...
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Darwinism
Darwinism, a scientific theory that supported the belief of evolution, was manipulated and applied to different areas of life, and thus it became the shaping force in European thought in the last half of the nineteenth century. Darwin, through observation of...
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Global warming
(After a lot of reading and hunting around on the net, I found a great deal of information on this topic. I had never really researched on it before so wanted to make sure that calculations agreed from report to report. Most of them did so I will base my...
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Background Knowledge
Resistance, in electricity, is a property of any object or substance to resist the flow of an electrical current. The quantity of resistance in an electric circuit determines the amount of current flowing in the circuit for...
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Cancer
Right now, cancer is one of the most feared diseases in the world. In the early 1990s almost 6 million new cancer cases developed and more than 4 million deaths from cancers occurred. Also more than one-fifth of all deaths were caused by cancer and it has been predicted, by...
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Interview with an Alien
Ida Kannenberg, an elderly lady, lives in
Hillsboro, Oregon, where she and her husband own
and operate a successful antique shop. Although she
is now nearly [eighty], she continues to travel all
over the world...
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Should Animals be Released Back into the Wild or Kept in Captivity?
Many people have heard about Keiko, the killer whale, who starred in the movie Free Willy. After seeing the movie, audiences discovered that the friendly whale in the movie was in a tank too small and in...
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Like the glass in a greenhouse, certain gases that occur naturally in the atmosphere tend to trap the sun's heat. This natural "greenhouse effect" helps keep the Earth's average temperature at a comfortable 59' Fahrenheit. Without these greenhouse gases, the Earth would
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Using Animals for testing is wrong and should be banned. They should be entitled to the rights we have. Every day humans are using defenseless animals for cruel and most often useless tests. The animals cannot fight for themselves therefore we must. There...
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A Cure for Osteoarthritis Glucosamine Sulfate
For many people, joint problems are a serious issue. Those affected by joint problems ranges from the highly athletic professional sports players to the lesser active elders with osteoarthritis. Though there are several options to...
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Business is any activity that seeks profit by providing needed goods and services to others. The nature of providing these goods and services has changed drastically throughout the history of time. During the last thirty years of business activity, there has been new ways and means of...
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For the past 20 years, there has a been an on going heated
debate on whether experiments on animals for the benefit of medical and scientific research is ethical.
Whether it is or isn't, most people believe that some form of cost-benefit test should be...
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Dangers of Anabolic Steroids
In the past three decades, steroids has been becoming a
serious problem more than ever in the athletic field. Steroids are
anabolic drug "to build" growth hormones that include the androgens
(male sex hormones) principally...
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Global Warming
I have chosen to speak about Global warming because it is a major scientific issue in the media.
Problems facing the environment today are vast and diverse. Destruction of the world's rain forests, the depletion of the ozone layer, air pollution,...
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refers to the pain arising from lack of adequate blood supply to the heart muscle. Typically, it is a crushing pain behind the breastbone in the center of the chest, brought on by exertion and relieved by rest. It may at times radiate to or arise in the left arm, neck, jaw, left...
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The effect of drugs can be harmful to the body. They can damage nerves at are use for thinking. According to the "Nation Institutes of Health"(NIH), cannabis is one of the most popular used drugs in America ranking third after tobacco and alcohol. Marijuana (the most common form used...
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"Beam me up, Scottie." This popular line from Star Trek was a demonstration of the advanced technology of the future. Though it was a fictional story, Star Trek became the universal vision of the future. As always reality tends to mimic fiction. Though...
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From Water to Land (Revision)
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The early tetrapods were the first vertebrates to actually walk the solid earth. They began their conquest of land in the Paleozoic era around 360 million years ago. The question many paleontologists have been asking for a long...
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Early in 1997 Dr. Ian Wilmont a Scottish scientist revealed to the world that he had completed a clone of an adult sheep named Dolly. With this huge step in science the world realized that cloning was no longer the plot of a science fiction movie but rather a realistic look into...
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Anatomy of Muscle Cells
There are three types of muscle tissue in the human body. These muscle tissues are skeletal muscles, smooth muscles and cardiac muscles. Each of these muscle tissues has it very own anatomical makeup, which vary from muscle to muscle....
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Global Warming
Human kind has entered a brand new relationship with the earth. The constant and increasing pressures we are exerting threaten our planets ability to sustain life itself. Change-in the way we think , and in the way we live-is needed now.Global warming is the...
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From Legend to Science: the Health Benefits of Tea
Throughout the world, tea and coffee rival each other as mankind's most popular brewed beverages. For thousands of years, however, tea has had one great advantage over coffee: it is believed...
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ANXIETY DISORDERS
Anxiety is a normal reaction to a threatening situation and results from an increase in the amount of adrenaline from the sympathetic nervous system. This increased adrenaline speeds the heart and respiration rate, raises blood pressure, and diverts blood...
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When ionic solids dissolve, they divide to give their positive and negative ions that make up the solids. These ions become hydrates and have the same relative proportions when in solution and when solid. The more the solid dissolves, the more the ion's concentration increases. ...
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?And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrilsthe breath of life; and man became a livingsoul . . . and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made He a woman...
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Cannabis Sativa
Marijuana is available anywhere in the world, as the black market is widespread and thriving very well. It has even started to be widespread in local malls where all kinds of hemp (marijuana) products for everyday use are becoming available. Marijuana...
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Global Warming is a big problem in today''s society. Global Warming also known as the Greenhouse effect is a problem everyone will soon have to face. The people of the younger generations should be educated about what Global Warming is and that it is caused due to the way...
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The Future
Many time periods have been interesting to those who were living in them. Things aren't going to change overnight, even if they change rapidly. Some issues are enormous, fundamental and long-term, such as male dominance, social victimization, or urban sprawl....
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Ants, Little but Mighty
What is an ant? Ants are insects, they have six legs
and each leg has three joints. Ants legs are very strong.
With it's little legs it can lift twenty-five time its own body
weight. They have two stomachs. One stomach holds its
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Inventions Benefited Society
Every year we hear more good news about inventions, especially in technology. Technology has
meliorated peoples' lives in numerous ways, the technology let us to keep personal information or household
budgets. Computers are one...
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Geography Assessment
Part A - Introduction
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1. What are human rights and where do they come from?
The term "human rights" is a relatively modern invention. It covers under its umbrella three different types of rights:
' the fundamental...
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Cancer is not a single disease. It includes a large group of varied disorders that share major traits. The first sign of cancer is an enlargement of the area. The tumor then infects other cells near it, and if it's really advanced, these cells may break away...
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Global Warming
What is global warming, and how is it affecting the Earth and it's inhabitants? Global Warming is sometimes referred to as the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is the absorption of energy radiated from the Earth's surface by carbon dioxide and other...
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The future of radio and the future of the Internet are irrevocably intertwined. Recently, radio has begun to be broadcast over the Internet, and Internet content has begun to be broadcast over the airwaves. For this exchange of positions to occur, there needs...
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For about 50 years, antibiotics have been the answer to many bacterial infections. Antibiotics are chemical substances that are secreted by living things. Doctors prescribed these medicines to cure many diseases. During World War II, it treated one of the...
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Virus
What is a Virus?
The computer virus is something that has been around almost as long as the Personal Computer (PC) and certainly since the advent of the affordable home computer, but what exactly is a virus? And how does it affect your PC? Is there any...
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Hubble Goes To The Limit In Search Of Farthest Galaxies
Stretching the vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope farther across space and further back into time than ever before, astronomers have peered into a previously unseen realm of the universe.
A "long exposure" infrared...
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Cardiac Pacemakers
The heart is bestowed with a specialized system that automatically generates rhythmic control via the sinus node, located in the superior lateral wall of the right atrium near the opening of the superior vena cava. The specialized pacemaker cells...
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- Global warming--is it getting warmer
Greenhouse Effect:
Is it Getting Warmer?
By definition, the greenhouse effect is a term for the role the atmosphere plays in insulating and warming the earth's surface. In modern society, this is the term for something better known as global warming....
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Fusion reactions are inhibited by the electrical repulsive force that acts between two positively charged nuclei. For fusion to occur, the two nuclei must approach each other at high speed to overcome the electrical repulsion and attain a sufficiently small separation (less than...
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During 1997, an event doctors had been fearing finally occurred. In three geographically separate patients, an often deadly bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus, responded poorly to a once reliable antidote--the antibiotic vancomycin. Fortunately, in those patients, the...
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Internet has been the most popular and widely used tool for fetching information on the net. However, another information system is surging in popularity, especially among business organizations and large corporations. The information system is called the . What is an ?...
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Human Origins
For years, the evolution of human beings has been researched and studied. In today's society, there are many different interpretations on creation and how humans came to be what they are today. Through much scientific evidence and studies, there is now physical...
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Carbon Dioxide is an unreactive, colourless, odourless gas that occurs in small quantities in the earth's atmosphere naturally. The earth's ocean, soil, plants and animals release CO2. The formula of Carbon Dioxide is CO2. The CO2 molecule contains 2 oxygen atoms that each...
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Global Warming Extended Definition Essay
The importance of the stratospheric ozone layer, which filters out most of the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation, in protecting the Earth's surface from the harmful effects of solar ultraviolet radiation has...
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In research facilities all around the world scientist are attempting to stop diseases at their very roots. Instead of trying to find drugs to cure illnesses they are trying to change the genes that cause the diseases. The process by which this is done is called gene therapy. ...
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Is There a Light at The End of The Tunnel?
A Comparative Study Between Religious and Secular
Prophecies Upon the Dawning of The New Millennium.
People believe that the year 2000 brings worldwide devastation. They are preparing themselves...
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There is a saying that goes: One must first have an understanding of the past in order to proceed into the future. An archaeologist's job, therefore, is very important because they have the crucial role of interpreting the past through archaeological finds. How does...
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Human Health
Who hasn't heard the old saying "early to bed, early
to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise"? Everyone's
heard it, but of course the problem is that it is not so
simple. However, it stands to reason
if a person has health, they have a better...
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The Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming
Recently, global warming has moved to a serious scientific issue. Because sunlight is constantly falling on the earth, the law of physics say that the planet has to radiate the same amount of energy back...
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Depression (psychology), mental illness in which a person experiences deep, unshakable sadness and diminished interest in nearly all activities. People also use the term depression to describe the temporary sadness, loneliness, or blues that everyone feels from time to time. In...
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In research facilities all around the world scientist are attempting to stop diseases at their very roots.
