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- This paper will define and discuss the volcano to include: types of
volcanoes, formation of a volcano, and elements of a volcano; such as, lava,
rock fragments, and gas. This paper also tells a little bit about volcanic
activity in different parts of the world.
What is a volcano?
A volcano is a...
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- INTRODUCTION
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 to get rid of. However acid
rain on...
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- Rain is an essential ingredient for life. The water provided by rain allows all life on Earth to survive. It waters our crops, allowing us to grow food for us to eat and food for the animals we raise for meat and milk. Although rain is naturally acidic it is being increasingly acidified by...
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- There are many beaches in the world ,which one you would like to visit ? Each one has its own characteristics in architecture ,the way of its people ,landscape,etc. For me ,Nha Trang is the best beach in my heart .Nha Trang beach has lots of wonderful sight that can help me reduce stress after work...
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- Chapter 1
Locations
Large deposits of in the U.S are found in New Mexico,
Colorado, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. Most of Canada's comes from the
province of Saskatchewan. There is a lot of in the oceans but we do
not have the technology to mine it at a cheap cost.
Chapter...
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- "Did the early have help in building the pyramids?" All over the
world remain fantastic objects, vestiges of people or forces which the theories
of archaeology, history, and religion cannot explain. There is something
inconsistent about our archaeology. They have found electric batteries...
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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 phyla...
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- The purpose of my experiment was to research and determine why the odor changed after mixing several controlled substances. The experiment involves esterification, which is the reaction of carboxylic acids and alcohol's to form esters. First, I put 4 ml of vinegar in a test tube and noted the...
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- Schizophrenia is one of our most important public health problems. It is a common, tragic, and devastating mental illness that typically strikes young people just when they are maturing into adulthood. Once it strikes, morbidity is high (60 percent of patients are receiving disability benefits...
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- L. Lehr
Freedman defines a pollutant as "the occurrence of toxic substances or energy in
a larger quality then the ecological communities or particular species can
tolerate without suffering measurable detriment" (Freeman, 562). Although the
effects of a pollutant on an organism vary depending on...
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- The remains of ancient plants can provide a wealth of archaeological information about a site, with many methods being available to the archaeologist engaged in extracting this data. Perhaps one of the most widely-known of these techniques, possibly because of its attractive nature, is pollen...
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- I believe human cloning is an interesting topic and could possibly be used for the good of society. Despite decades of speculation, there has been no human reproductive cloning. Research cloning, also known as embryo cloning or therapeutic cloning, is another form of human cloning that produces...
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- Purpose: In this lab we will observe the products of of potassium
perchlorate (KClO4). We will then predict from our results the correct chemical
reaction equation.
Procedure: 1. Weigh out about 4.0g of KClO4 in a test tube. Record the
accurate weight below. Product Weight Before Weight After...
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- In the United States in 1995 alone, 43,063 died from . 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 three cancers of all women...
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- (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 answer on these different reports. This...
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- Name: Suzaine Bernadette M. Estor
Section: MLS-2B
Define the following terms:
Electronegativity - is a measure of the tendency of an atom to attract a bonding pair of electrons (Clark,2020). Tends to be more specific on how much atom to attract on a bonding pair of electrons or keep the...
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- Mars is the fourth planet from the sun at about 228 million-km (141 million miles) and the last terrestrial planet from the sun. The next five planets in order from the sun are gaseous. Mars follows closely behind Earth but is comparatively smaller, with about half the diameter of Earth and about...
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- Haley Varvel
Mrs. Poteet
AP English Language
Global warming is a problem that needs to be fixed. When looking at how the earth has changed over the years, it has just gotten worse. Due to humans burning the greenhouse gasses and fissile fuels is destroying the earth; whether it be...
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- Fire is a topic on which most people can comment. Fire is a widespread phenomenon. Most of us have seen fires in natural vegetation, or their effects; stark, blackened vegetation or a smoke pall. Because fires such as these can have damaging economic and social effects, can spoil forestry...
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- Wildlife
Fire is an important part of many ecosystems and helps maintain the condition of habitats for wildlife. The effect of fire depends upon many factors, varying from the type of wildlife to their different habitats. Fire affects ungulates through positive, but often, short-lived...
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Research Question :
The modelling of the segment of roller coaster
Rational :
Over the world there are many amusement park accident cause by roller coaster ,the probability of serious injuries caused by motorised cruises is estimated to be1 over...
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- Science is a creature that continues to evolve at an ever-increasing rate. The transformation from tree shrew, to ape, to human far exceeds the time for the transformation time from an analytical machine, to a calculator, to a computer. However, science, in the past, has always remained distant. ...
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- Family: Macropodae
Genus and Species: Macropus Giganteus
HOW THE KANGAROO GOT ITS NAME
When European explorers first saw these strange hopping animals they asked a native Australian (aborigine) what they were called.
He replied "kangaroo" meaning "I don't understand" your question.
The...
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- Homework #3b - II: Show your work under each question
1) You are riding your bike on a track that forms a vertical circular loop. If the diameter of the loop is 10.0 m, what is the minimum speed required for you to make it around the loop?
2) You are swinging...
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- One of the most controversial areas associated with the global problem
of deforestation is the Pacific Northwest of the US. The problem can be broken
down into several issues that all tie in together. These include the near
extinction of the Northern Spotted Owl, the "business" aspect of logging...
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- The laser is a device that a beam of light that is both scientifically and practically of great use because it is coherent light. The beam is produced by a process known as stimulated emission, and the word "laser" is an acronym for the phrase "light amplification by stimulated emission of...
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- s
(The ? Grand Performance! Life story BBC)
The male s make a bower and call the females. Once the female gets in the male bird wants her, he begins the show. First, he expands his pupils then he starts to do a weird and wheezy call from deep in his neck. For...
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- 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 comes to no surprise to discover that adolescent depression is strongly linked to teen suicide. Adolescent suicide is now...
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- A very large star explodes, somewhere in the unfathomable space of our galaxy. The star's core collapses. The monstrous pressure crushes its atoms and smashes their electrons into the nuclei. There, the negatively charged protons change to neutrons and neutrinos. Billions of neutrinos particles,...
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- Groundwater depletion in cropping pattern
Water is an important input. It is used for many purpose - domestic, irrigation, industrial, navigation, hydro - electric power generation, etc. The quality and quantity of water required to satisfy each of these demands vary considerably depending upon...
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- Surface Area to Volume Ratios in Plants (Arid vs. Moist Environments)
The ability of plants to survive in certain environments depends on many abiotic factors such as the amount of water or light available. It is important to look at how these factors affect the growth and survival of plants in...
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- 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 human beings. Although tests are...
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- CLIMATE CHANGES: Climate changes have a key role to play when there is flooding because of the vast weather pattern changes.
Firstly, Global Warming is one of the main causes of flooding due to changes in the climate. For example, due to the increasing levels of man-made greenhouse gasses in the...
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- A natural force is a power brought on by nature. , unlike those of other powers, are uncontrollable. When a hurricane passes along the coast, a bolt of lightning strikes a rooftop, and a volcano erupts, these are all examples of . can have devastating effects on wildlife, humans, and the earth...
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- The world is changing rapidly. A single technological development can lead to an infinite number of consequential developments each of which having varying impacts on humanity. These impacts, or indicators, display the results of technological development. Climactic, global economic, social, and...
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- I feel like that the only way to truly fathom just how vast the universe is, or to successfully describe the insane enormity of it, is to illustrate just how small and insignificant humanity is. After all, everything we ever do, say, or experience is merely measured against the yardstick of human...
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- As nations around the globe enter the 21st century, one of the most pressing concerns facing each is the notion of sustainable development. Sustainable development, simply put, refers to maintaining a rate of industrialization which minimizes the destruction of the environment. And while issues...
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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 period of time is whether the anatomy for locomotion on land was...
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- Georgia Oak
By: Aiden Rector
I am Aiden, and I speak for the trees. The Georgia Oak has many different names. For example Quercus Georgiana, Georgia Oak, and Stone Mountain Oak. It is in the Fagaceae Family. The Georgia Oak is native to the southeast United States and lives in Alabama, Georgia,...
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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 situations involve one or...
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- ?
CONTENTS
I. ABSTRACT
II. INTRODUCTION/LITERATURE RESEARCH
1. PROBLEM
2. HYPOTHESIS
III. PROCEDURE/MATERIALS LIST
IV. RESULTS
V. CONCLUSIONS
IV. BIBLIOGRAPHY
ABSTRACT
The characteristics of crystals have always fascinated man. Man
has always been interested in the...
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- Hormonal Growth of Male Reproductive Function
To complete this worksheet, select:
Module: Continuity
Activity: Animations
Title: Hormonal Growth of Male Reproductive Function
Introduction
1. What organs are involved in hormonal control of male reproductive functions?
Testis,...
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- The human body is divided into many different parts called organs.
All of the parts are controlled by an organ called the brain, which is
located in the head. The brain weighs about 2.75 pounds, and has a
whitish-pink appearance. The brain is made up of many cells, and is the
control centre of...
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- As I researched, I found many different definitions of Physics, some being very complex and others being simple and to the point. In defining physics, firstly, I would have to mention that the early history of physics is interrelated with that of other sciences, maths and concepts. As we know,...
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- Lithium (Li)
Atomic Number: 3
Atomic Mass: 6.941
Description:
Lithium is a soft, silvery-white metal which reacts vigorously with water and has the lowest density of all metals. It comes from the alkali metal group which is found on the periodic table of elements.
Discovery and Naming:...
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- For centuries, man has wondered on his position in the universe. Is he alone? Is he the divine creature? Is he descended from an ape or a godly being? Finding its major roots just recently after World War II, the idea of extraterrestrial life existing and visiting our planet has held us captivated....
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- 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 really is, what treatments there are, what you two can do for your child, and how it is inherited. I hope this document is useful to you in your incoming...
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- Question:
Do you like playing with bubbles? I know I do. Do you wish your bubbles wouldn't pop so quickly? This science fair project was done to determine if adding other substances to Gain liquid detergent can help the bubbles last longer. Testing was done by adding corn syrup, sugar water,...
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- 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 their limited conceptual grasp of how these...
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- The humpback whale is a baleen whale and a rorqual whale that sings amazing songs. It performs complex and cooperative feeding techniques. The humpback has a bulky head with bumpy protuberances (tubercles), each with a bristle. Humpbacks are acrobats of the ocean, breaching and slapping the water....
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- Article
Jennifer Hicks
September 22, 2015
This article was a very interesting read. It talks about a study done at Indiana University about your skin and its microbiomes. The researchers wanted to see if the microbiomes on your skin are able to...
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- After the recent discovery of single-cell life forms from mars were discovered
contained in meteorite that crashed to the earth 12 YEARS AGO. I have many
doubts to believe that it is the case. There is still no proof after all these
years that the sightings of flying sources moving across the sky...
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- Tianhua Yu
Dr. Katash
CHM1003
2015-8-11
Soap Lab report #8
oo Abstract
The purpose of this experiment is to produce soap. And the main technique mainly focuses on the following chemical equation:
As for the experiment, we use animal fat and NaOH as reactants, and...
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- During the nineteenth century, two prominent writers, Herman Mellville
and Charles Darwin both voyaged to the Galapagos islands off the coast of
Ecuador. Both of these individuals wrote descriptive passages about the
physical attributes and atmosphere of the Galapagos Islands. The passages...
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- Research and Writing 12-2
A Nuclear weapon is any weapon that gets its destructive power from the
transformation of matter in atoms into energy. They include missiles, bombs,
artillery shells, mines and torpedoes. Another name for nuclear weapons are
Atomic bombs or Hydrogen bombs. The United...
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- In , particles ionize gas atoms. The tube
contains a gas at low pressure. At one end of the tube is a very thin 'window'
through which charged particles or gamma rays pass. Inside the tube is a copper
cylinder with a negative charge. A rigid wire with a positive charge runs down
the center of...
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- Water is Our Life
People want water as much as people need air. Animals and Plants too need water. If there is no water we would all die. We use water for cooking, washing clothes, generating electricity , washing ourselves and for cultivation.
Rain, wells, hands pumps (tube wells), water falls,...
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- Inhalants are very dangerous. The come from ordinary house hold products like aerosols. Inhalants are used to get a high. They are being use by younger people.
Inhalant use is intentionally breathing in a vapor of gas with the purpose of reaching a high. Inhalants are legal everyday product,...
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- Earth Layers: The Crust and Upper mantel
The theroery of Plate Tectonics
The theory of plate tectonics states that the earth's upper mantle and crust, have been broken into huge slab pieces, which are also called plates.
Divergent Boundries
Divergent boundaries are mostly found on the seafloor,...
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- "People are realizing that we cannot forever continue to multiply and
subdue the earth without losing our standard of life and the natural beauty that
must be part of it. these are the years of decision- the decision of men to stay
the flood of man." Ehrlich here explains the one of the most...
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- Cloning is the process of using one organism's DNA to create another organism exactly the same. This process is very controversial and I will be writing about some of the views that people have on this subject. Cloning, like everything, has pros and cons.
The benefits of cloning range from making...
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- The sea anemones that were collected for the 'Clone Specific Segregation in the Sea Anemone ' experiment were collected by Lisbeth Francis in Pacific Grove, California (Biological Bulletin 1973, 144; 64-72). The topic of Francis's report is the particularity of the constant anemone-free areas...
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- When many people thing of the United States, they envision a land of freedom, prosperity, and wealth. However, environmentalists see a different land, one containing six percent of the world's population, and yet producing twenty-five percent of the world's pollution. This is because much of our...
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- Research stopping distance for a vehicle at 30, 50 and 70 miles per hour in the highway code
30mph- 23 metres
50mph- 53 metres
70mph- 96 metres
Research terminal velocity of an object dropping through air e.g. Skydiver
Skydiver;
The terminal velocity of a falling body occurs during free fall...
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- is polluted rain. The pollutants go up to the atmosphere and when
it rains it brings the pollution down with it. Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen
oxide are the gases that form the . When these gases mix with moisture
it can make rain, snow, hail, or even fog. The scientific term for is
acid...
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- Hi friends as you know I am Pranav but I cant spend time with you because I have to study and share information about the Solar system. Don't worry, I will share with you too. So, if you are interested in reading a little bit about the solar system look down.
1. There are 8 planets
2. The solar...
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- The purpose of this lab is to calculate bouyant forces of objects
submerged in water.
The first step in the lab was to measure the mass of a metal cylinder,
which was found to be 100g, and then to calculated it's weight, which was .98
newtons. Then next step was to measure the apparent weight of...
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- DEVELOPMENT OF OVER THE DECADES
A Computer is an electronic device that can receive a set of instructions, or program, and then carry out this program by performing calculations on numerical data or by compiling and correlating other forms of information.
Thesis Statement:- The modern world of...
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- The rock cycle
I. what types of rocks are affected by volcanoes and how are they affected/formed?
A. "igneous rocks begin as magma in the rock cycle" "when lava cools enough it solidifies and turns into igneous rock" (Peter 44).
1. Close your eyes. Now imagine a bowl of ice cream; take that bowl...
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- Isolated in their own worlds, people with 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 other people's thoughts,...
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- There are many models which try to explain how memory works. Nevertheless,
we do not know exactly how memory works. One of the most questionable models
of memory is the one which assumes that every experience a person has had is
'recorded' in memory and that some of these memories are of traumatic...
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- Don't you just loathe that hot and suffocating sun in the middle of spring? Don't you hate that feeling of sweat dripping down your forehead every second and that feeling of a dry and parched tongue every five minutes? What is the cause of all of this? Global warming is the reason for the people to...
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- Waterpower, power derived from the fall of water from a higher to a lower level, and extracted by means of waterwheels or hydraulic turbines (see Turbine). Waterpower is a natural resource, available wherever a sufficient volume of steady water flow exists. The development of waterpower today...
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- Over the past decade, has advanced much to the
advantage of many people. We have learned that with certain chemicals,
we are able to cut-and-paste the DNA of certain organisms, and alter
them to comply to our sociable needs. But this can also affect modern
medicine, political factors, economic,...
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- New York Times April 11, 1996
The manatee population has suffered a devastating blow so far this year.
About 221 manatees have been found dead already. Out of those 221, 128 have no
obvious cause of death. Marine biologists have been unable to find the cause of
these deaths. They suspect that...
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- Venus flytrap
What does it eat?
Flies and other flying insects supplement its nutrition from the soil on which it lives. Sometimes if there is a large it will eat a small frog or toad. The Venus flytrap lives on soils that are poor in nutrients, and in particular nitrogen compounds,...
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- Any barren region that supports very little life may be called a desert. The cold expanses of Antarctica, extreme northern Asia, and Greenland are therefore true, but cold, deserts. Most commonly, however, the term desert is used for regions that are barren because they are arid, or dry. Arid...
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- Chi-Yung Chan
Mrs. Barkley
Physics P.6
11 January 2014
Waves Research Project
Light waves are the things that are reflected back into our eyes everywhere we look around us. Lights from the light bulb, sun and etc.. is light different wave lengths into one, for example if you were to hold a...
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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 another.
The jet aircraft gets its...
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- "Traces of the Stealth_c Virus have been found in memory. Reboot to a clean system disk before continuing with this installation'" This was the message staring back at me from one of the computer monitors at my office. Questions raced through my mind. "Stealth_c?" "What's a system disk?" "How am I...
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- DNA is the information needed by a cell in order to reproduce an
identical offspring. In some crimes detectives have no evidence or fingerprints
to tell who had committed a crime. Now there is a way of finding who has
committed the crime by a method called DNA Typing. DNA Typing is...
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- The good effects of an avalanche
An avalanche clears an area of trees and other obstacles. In the warmer months, land that experienced an avalanche in the previous winter will be clear, which creates a path up the mountain that offers easier traveling for both humans and animals. This helps...
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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 weather, and the promise that it...
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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 as infants and...
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- PROJECTILE MOTION
* The motion of the body thrown horizontally or an angle other than 90[0] with the horizontal component
* Trajectory is the path that a projectile follows
* Parabola is the trajectory of a projectile
* Two components of projectile motion: Vertical component- air resistance is...
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- 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 dictate control of the rest of the heart through...
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- On November 1, 1998 computer companies, television makers, broadcasters, and program suppliers have made a transition from analog to . When the FCC passed a law forcing the networks to change from an analog broadcast to a digital broadcast, all the above mentioned industries have been scrambling...
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- means the surroundings. Land, water, air, plants, animals, solid wastes and other things that are surrounding us constitute our environment. Man and environment are closely intertwined with each other, to maintain a balance or equilibrium in nature.
Different groups of people working...
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- A long long time ago, in a galaxy not too far away, was a little blue
planet called Earth, and on this world not a single mammal lived. However a lot
of time has past since then and we now have lots of furry creatures that are
collectively called mammals. How did they get their? Where did they...
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- occurs when wastes dirty the make the air dirty. People produce most of the waste that cause . Such waste can be in the form of gases or be particulates (particles of solid or liquid manner). These substance result chiefly from burning fuel to power motor vehicles and to heat buildings. ...
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- Adrian Clamonte
TA: 30
Lg 18 notes
Evidence of continental drift
* Continents were one joined together , but drifted
* Coast of continents can aligned
* Regions of some continents that are far apart have similar rocks, mountain ranges, fossils,...
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- METAPHYSICS What is metaphysics? Metaphysics can be described as those things, which relate to external nature, after physics. The term was first used by the followers of Aristotle as a name for that part of his writings, which came after, or followed, the part, which treated of physics. This was...
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- Down Syndrome is a chromosomal disorder. It occurs in about 1 of every 800 births. People with Down syndrome may have mild to severe learning disabilities. Physical symptoms include a small skull, extra folds of skin under the eyes, and a protruding tongue. People with Down syndrome are subject to...
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- The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris)[2][3] is a subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus), a member of the Canidae family of the mammalian order Carnivora. The term "domestic dog" is generally used for both domesticated and feral varieties. The dog has been the first animal to be...
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Since the beginning of time, water has continued to be an important thing to all living things. Without water nothing could live. We many change our food according to the climate of place but we find no substitute[1] for water. Man has always looked for pure fresh water to...
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- Killer Whale, a name to strike terror in the hearts of sea ferers in all the oceans of the world. The Romans called it Orca, meaning "The demon from Hell." Originally, american fisherman referred to them as "Whale Killer" because many fisherman reported seeing pods of them attacking and killing...
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- 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 everything else, from a single cell, and
not from an...
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- The tomato and its close relatives are believed to have originated in the mountainous regions of the Andes (Peru, Ecuador and Chile). Other distinct relatives are found among the flora of the Galapagos Islands. These relatives can be found in many environments, from high, moist elevations in the...
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- Everyone knows about the five senses. Taste: the sense that allows us to enjoy an essential part of life, eating. Hearing: the sense that enables us to carry a conversation with each other. Sight: without this we not be able to do things we take for granted, like driving for instance. Touch:...
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- The latest technological developments in the field of bio engineering has allowed specialist to proceed with the successful cloning of organisms. Bioengineering has certainly opened doors to science that people have never considered before but this has also come with attached controversy. There are...
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- Planet Name and Position: , 6[th] planet from the sun
Terrestrial, Gas Giant, Dwarf planet?: Gas Giant
Equatorial Diameter: 120,500km
Mass: 9.4
Surface Gravity: 8.96m/s^2
Density: 687 kg/m^3
# of moons: 60
Significant Moons: Titan
Axial Tilt: 26 degrees
Distance from Sun: 9.6
Distance from...
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- Hepatitis B can be prevented with a highly effective vaccine, but this year
ten to thirty million people will become infected with the hepatitis B virus. I feel that because this disease is preventable, only knowledge can help reduce the number of people infected.
Hepatitis B is a serious liver...
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- Glycolysis, the Universal Process | Anaerobic Pathways | Aerobic Respiration
Glycolysis, the Universal Process | Nine reactions, each catalyzed by a specific enzyme, makeup the process we call glycolysis. ALL organisms have glycolysis occurring in their cytoplasm.
At steps 1 and 3 ATP is converted...
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Super conductivity General properties
Observations regarding Applications
'O Super conductor are the material having almost zero resistivity and behave as diamagnetic below the super conducting transition temperature.'O Super conductors are PERFECT...
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- For more than 100 years, it has been known that two adjacent cities are
generally warmer than the surrounding areas. This region of city warmth, known
as an urban heat island, can influence the concentration of air pollution. The
urban heat island is formed when industrial and urban areas are...
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- 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 amount of caffeine in...
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The nature of science can be found in its process as a mode of discovery . Science , like most fields of study , is basically still just a process of understanding reality and the environment . As a process of understanding , it necessarily involves guesses and conjectures...
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- Lamprey is a common name for about forty species of jawless, eel-like fishes. They are very smooth skinned and scaleless. Some can grow up to three feet in length, usually only in the oceans. All lampreys are dull colored, ranging from light-tan to molted-brown or bluish-black. Scientist...
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- Of all the terms coined by scientists which have entered popular vocabulary, 'clone' has
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- In order to tackle any concept in ethics you have to think with an
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What is a stem cell?
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- Dinosaur is the name of large extinct reptiles of the Mesozoic Era,
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- are drugs that excite the nervous system. Most are made from the opium poppy, (Papaver Somniferum) which is found mainly in Asia. were the first drugs used as medicines. They can relieve physical and emotional pain, and for this reason, they made very good medicines. The problem with is that...
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Mr. Hart
Our society has become dependent on fossil fuels for energy. That seems
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present situation. Fossil fuels are relatively inexpensive and seem to be doing
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Purpose:
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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 conscious of their physical...
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- Introduction
This paper will focus on the quantitative correlation study method used
in survey based researches such as the attached article entitled "Horatio Alger
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- are playful and cleverness make them fascinating to watch. are not fish they are mammals that live in the sea. They have to come to the top of the water every half minute, so they can breathe. But dolphins can stay under the water for six or seven minutes,if he holds his breath....
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- has the symbol No and is a radioactive metallic element with an
atomic number of 102. is in the actinide series being labeled as one
of the transuranium elements. The element is named after Alfred Bernhard Nobel,
the Swedish inventor and philanthropist.
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- opens many doors of opportunities in the agricultural aspect of
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lives of many humans. I feel the society as a whole can not and should not
degrade this scientifical finding. I feel that human should not be done
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(Fackelmann...
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- is rain that is more acidic than normal. is a complicated problem. Primarily caused by air pollution, 's spread and damage involves weather, chemistry, soil, and the life cycles of plants and animals on the land and in lakes and streams. This form of air pollution is currently a subject of...
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- INTRODUCTIONThis report will strive to clearly discern the differences between the average home Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) and the recently developed Digital Video Disc (DVD) system. These two home entertainment components have very clear differences. It is important for consumers to carefully...
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- have been a mistery for scientists from the day they where
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chemistry are unknown. They are believed to be proteins but that is yet to be
completely proved.
Prion stands for 'proteinaceous infectious particles'. are...
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- Gary Whipfler, Corporate Treasurer of Apple Computers gave a very informative presentation about the field of Finance from his own 13 years of experience. As an MBA graduate at Santa Clara, he returned here and gave students some excellent advice about entering the workforce. I think this was the...
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- The kola tree lives in southern South Africa. It grows up to 60 feet high, and lives in west African it is
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s organic compound. I will tell you where it is found. I will tell you what
the uses are in plants and animals. I will also tell you about it's chemical
structure and give examples of types of these compounds, such as...
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- "The Education of a Torturer" is an account of experiments that has
similar results to that of Milgram's obedience experimentsthat were
performed in 1963. Though both experiments vary drastically, both have one
grim outcome, that is that, "it is ordinary people, not psychopaths, who
become the...
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- The genetic disorder which I have chosen as the subject of my report is hemophilia. There are two types of hemophilia, hemophilia-A and hemophilia-B. The clinical symptoms of both are very similar so for the purposes of this paper I have chosen to concentrate on hemophilia-A.
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1. Relaci'n entre Pensamiento Cr'tico y Creativo Marianela Conejeros
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o El concepto de creatividad tiene como referente buscar, probar, combinar, innovar, explorar, en este contexto se vincula...
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- Scientists are taking medical technology to new heights as they race to
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- 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 can be expected in the near and distant...
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- In a world where plants are at the bottom of the food-chain, some
individual plant species have evolved ways to reverse the order we expect to
find in nature. These insectivorous plants, as they are sometimes called, are
the predators , rather than the passive prey. Adaptions such as odiferous...
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- In the development of any one person, the people who touch their lives, in and out, day after day, and the thoughts and feelings that they stirred are summed and that quantity represents a large portion of the individual. When looking at the development of someone with as great an impact as Charles...
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- Centuries ago the Greek mathematician Archimedes used sunlight to set fire to invading ships. In the following paper you will read more about the wonders of its many uses and how it works. You may also find facts like why it was invented, how it started, how it is used today, and how it is hoped...
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- Introduction
is a way of measuring how automatic or
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situations. This phenomenon also measures individual distinctions,
originality and cognitive flexibility. The two aspects of cognitive
development that are demonstrated by...
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in atmospheric circulation. Each control can be broken down into smaller
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- 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 . What is an abortion you might ask? Well it is the termination of a pregnancy, or the killing of a...
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- As seen in observation and analysis; my hypothesis was proved to be correct and density does increase if the sugar concentration is increased. The data in the table and the strong linear relationship on the graph shows that grams per each millilitre increase as the ratio of sugar to water increases...
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- is the science of certain cryptic relations between the celestial
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- "And God said, let there be light and there was light and then God saw the
light, that it was good " ( Genesis 1: 3-4 ). Undoubtedly, light is good.
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- (CF) used to be considered a childhood disease, because people born with it rarely lived to reach adolescence.
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- Who Discovered it?
When and Where was it Discovered?
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- If asked what light is, one could say that it's one of the most basic
elements of our world and our universe as we perceive it. It is through
sight that we receive 90% of our information. It is through the use of
telescopes aiding the naked eye that we are aware of the heavenly bodies
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- Las tres f'rmulas de Stephen Hawking para viajar en el tiempo
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- 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. Primary and secondary contain hydrogen and are
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- Visiting Researcher, The Foresight Institute
P.O. Box 61058, Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA
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To appear in Social Epistemology, 1992. (version appeared: in Proc. Eighth
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- 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 second. That water reflects the surrounding land use activities...
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- The pineal body (corpus pineale), or the pineal gland, is a small, pinecone-shaped endocrine gland located at the posterior portion of the third ventricle of the brain. The pineal gland, which was known to physicians in Antiquity, has been a mystifying subject to scientists. Ren' Descartes, who,...
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- 1. Introduction
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- A parent cell divides to make two smaller daughter cells that then grow into full size cells and may or may not divide like their parent.
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- The Latin word for mushroom is (plural, fungi). The word has come to stand for a whole group of simple plants that contain no chlorophyll and lack such complex plant structures as roots, stems, leaves, and flowers. Included among the fungi, along with mushrooms, are molds, mildews, rusts, smuts,...
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- Introduction
Ordinary matter has negatively charged electrons circling a positively
charged nuclei. has positively charged electrons - positrons -
orbiting a nuclei with a negative charge - anti-protons. Only anti-protons
and positrons are able to be produced at this time, but scientists...
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- Harvard University biomedical engineer David Edwards invented breathable vitamins as they get into the bloodstream faster than pills do. The product which Edwards created is called Le Whif. When you swallow pills, more specifically vitamins, the intestinal tract and liver degrade the active...
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- In the United States, the media has a tendency to report only the
negative details of everything. Such was the case in the late 1960's and
early 1970's when the pesticide DDT was investigated and eventually
prohibited. Most of the claims against DDT remain unproved to this day.
There were three...
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- During the Industrial Revolution coal and other fossil fuels were used as a source of energy. They were burned and the gas given off was harmful to the atmosphere. Unknowingly factories burned fossil fuel causing what we call the greenhouse effect. Unfortunately, factories continue to burn these...
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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 food supplies. The weapons are usually...
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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 that phenacetin was metabolized into an...
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- Of all the stars in our galaxy we find our Sun the most important.
For supports life on earth and keeps the planets in a certain
"line".Without the sun we could not survive.
History of the Sun
People have studied the stars since day one. Many cultures have
studied and worshiped the sun. This...
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- 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 production facility and on-site, as well as open...
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- Salinity in both the rivers and on the land is one of the main and most costly
results of overclearing and irrigation. Salinity is caused by changes in the
delicate balance between surface water and groundwater systems. A small increase
in the infiltration of water from the topsoil to the...
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- About 2.5 billion years ago, oxygen began slowly to accumulate in the
atmosphere, as a result of the photosynthetic activity of the cyanobacteria.
Those prokaryotes that were able to use oxygen in ATP production gained a strong
advantage, and so they began to prosper and increase. Some of these...
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- Introduction: Why globular evolution?
Evolution has been a heavily debated issue since Charles Darwin first
documented the theory in 1859. However, until just recently, adaptation at a
molecular level has been overlooked except by the scientific world. Now with
the help of modern technology, the...
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- A star is a large ball of hot gas, thousands to millions of kilometers
in diameter, emitting large amounts of radiant energy from nuclear
reactions in its interior. differ fundamentally from planets in that
they are self-luminous, whereas planets shine by reflected sunlight. Except
for the SUN,...
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- Marijuana also called cannabis is a leafy plant, which grows wild in many of the tropic areas of the world. The most commonly used form of cannabis are the leaves and flowering tops called buds which may be either smoked or eaten. It can be also concentrated to form called hashish, and as a...
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- Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, which is a tick-borne spirochete.
The dangers of this disease became more publicised in 1977, where a geographic
grouping of children in Lyme, Conneticut were thought to have juvenile rheumatoid
arthritis1. Soon after, it was discovered that lyme...
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- Mars is the fourth furthest away from the sun and is recognized by its reddish color. Mars is also very much like the Earth. " More than any other planet in the solar system, Mars has characteristics that make it an Earth-like world "(Grolier, 1992). One thing that is very similar to Earth is the...
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- There are 7 periods and 18 groups. The periodic table of the chemical elements (also periodic table of the elements or just the periodic table) is a tabular display of the chemical elements. Although precursors to this table exist, its invention is generally credited to Russian chemist Dmitri...
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- From the early times through the Industrial revolution to the Space Age, humans have produced inventions that use many of the earth's varied energy resources to make living easier. In many cases the energy comes from burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas. Some of the inventions...
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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 diamond's...
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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), is one of the most popular used drugs in America ranking third after tobacco and alcohol. Marijuana (the most common form used in America), is made...
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- History of the Propeller The aircraft propeller looks like a simple
mechanism to the uneducated individual. To the educated, an aircraft
propeller represents the highest sophistication in aerodynamics,
mechanical engineering and structural design. This report will touch
on the history of the...
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- is a common term for pollution caused when sulfur and nitrogen dioxides combine with atmospheric moisture to produce a rain, snow, or hail of sulfuric and nitric acids. Such pollution may also be suspended in a fog, or the pollutants may be deposited in dry form. Environmental damage from has...
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- The ozone layer has begun to become 'thin.' It is often referred to as the 'hole in the ozone layer.' This problem has been created by human activities and specific chemicals that have been released.
The chemicals released into the atmosphere are known as CFC's. These chemicals are released, begin...
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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. Normally, the computer that gives them access to...
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- is caused by pollution containing sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and ozone ( SO', NOx, and O' ) is released into the air.
These chemicals are absorbed into clouds and results in Acid Presipitation ( , Acid Snow, Acid Hail, Acid Sleet ).
When the chemicals aren't absorbed into clouds, they can...
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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, which may affect cells, which may affect tissues, and so on. Although...
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- A review of Watson, James D. The Double Helix. New York: Atheneum, 1968.
James Watson's account of the events that led to the discovery of the
structure of deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) is a very witty narrative, and
shines light on the nature of scientists. Watson describes the many key...
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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. This increase and...
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- During the late twentieth century many new diseases have been discovered. Tomisaku Kawasaki discovered one of these diseases, , or technically mucocutaneous lymph node disease, in 1961. This particular disease remained undetected for so long because its cause is still unknown. Dr. Kawasaki, a...
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- Have you ever wondered what is? has been around for many years, but many people don't understand what is, who used , and it's connection with the zodiac.
Many people don't know this, but the actual term comes from two words, which are 'astra' and 'logos'. (Weblinkers.com Enterprises,...
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- Since the beginning of industry humans have been in search of fuel to power machines and generate energy. Fossil fuels, such as crude oil and coal, discovered beneath the Earth's surface were found to be an excellent source of fuel. These fossil fuels are burnt in order to generate the energy...
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- Throughout the last few years has drawn a ton of attention towards itself. New ideas and new styles of this medicine are introduced into the media everyday. Despite all the attention to this new trend what do we actually know about it? Is it safe? What studies have been done? In a time when...
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- There is currently much debate on the desirability of landfilling particular
wastes, the practicability of alternatives such as waste minimisation or pre-
treatment, the extent of waste pre-treatment required, and of the most
appropriate landfilling strategies for the final residues. This debate is...
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- When one starts a car or burns wood, the last thought on their mind is the
consequences to these actions. Unfortunately, the daily dangers to earth are not
widely know. Due to the constant change of society, this planet must cope with
various problems. One of the most important ecological...
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- Ebola-Pronunciation: E-'bO-l&, i-, e-
Etymology: Ebola River, Zaire, site of an outbreak of the virus in 1976
: An RNA-containing virus of African origin that causes an often fatal Hemorrhagic fever -- called also Ebola.
Zaire, 1976
A strange virus kills 340 of Zaire's natives. This virus has never...
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- The Branta sandvicensis, or looks similar to the Canada
Goose except only the face, cap, and hindneck are black; and Nene have buff-
colored cheeks. The males and female have the same plumage. The feet of this
goose are not completely webbed like the other geese. Lots of calls have...
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- "The roof was caving in and I thought I was going to die. It was like
your worst nightmare!" said Mary Grandish. Most people think they will die when
they see,or hear of a tornado heading their way.
Although all the details of the formation of a tornado are not yet
understood, it is known that...
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- The mountain system dominates the Eastern United States and seperates the Eastern seaboard from the interior with a belt of uplands that extends nearly 1,500 miles from northeastern Alabama to the Canadian border.; They are old, complex mountains, eroded from much older and greater ranges. The...
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- The environment is in a terrible condition and although an is not imminent we are definitely headed down that road. Some of the reasons for our Earth's trouble are overpopulation, consumerism, and overconsumption.
The earth's population is ever increasing; it is only a matter of time before there...
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- In 1876 a French scientist by the name of Louis Pasteur found something that would make college students eternally grateful of his scientific knowledge. He discovered that played an important part in making beer. Since then has been used in not only the production of beer, but also wine...
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- Throughout the entire history of mankind, the technological advancements that civilisations have made have always been tied in with the development of energy sources. The first human energy technology was fire, along with human labour as the major energy source. This has bee supplemented by animals...
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- ABSTRACT
Ohm's Law and Kirchhoff's rules is fundamental for the understanding of
dc circuit. This experiment proves and show how these rules can be applied to
so simple dc circuits.
INTRODUCTION
In the theory of Ohm's Law, voltage is simply proportional to current as
illustrated in the...
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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 have one main creation...
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- In today's era there exists a medium, which like never before is becoming a medium of communication and interaction between humans, namely the World Wide Web. This old but yet new medium is expanding and changing rapidly, thus making it close to impossible to control.
The World Wide Web is...
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- (IVF) is a procedure that offers hope to couples who otherwise are unable to conceive. This process is important to infertile couples because it gives them another chance of conceiving a child. In order for normal pregnancy to occur, an egg is released from an ovary and unites with a sperm in a...
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- "We know there will be problems in environmental terms, many serious
problems, but it is a matter of economics. There won't be any complete
disaster, and what we cannot solve, well, that's the price we have to pay."
- Eduardo Albuquerque Barbosa
There is a constant war that is being...
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- The is a constant movement of water above, on, and below the earth's surface. It is a cycle that replenishes ground water supplies. It begins as water vaporizes into the atmosphere from vegetation, soil, lakes, rivers, snowfields and oceans-a process called evapotranspiration. As the water vapor...
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- Excessive Alcohol Consumption?
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- Space Travel. It is a sense of national pride
for many Americans. If you ask anyone who was alive at the time, they could
probably tell you exactly where they were when they heard that Neil Armstrong
was the first person to walk on the Moon. But all of the success in our space
programs is...
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- Period 3 Grade 8
is a mineral. it is not a plant or a animal.
is a metallic metal. It can never be broken down into differnet substances by
normal chemical means. was one of the first metals known to humans.
People liked it because in it's native condition, it could easily be beaten
into...
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In order to truly understand acid rain and it's eventual effect on earthworms, it would be best to look at the causes of acid rain. How and why does altered acidity in precipitation have a devastating effect?
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- The engineering of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is entirely new, yet genetics, as
a field of science, has fascinated mankind for over 2,000 years. Man has always
tried to bend nature around his will through selective breeding and other forms
of practical genetics. Today, scientists have a greater...
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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 world. Coffee...
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- Robert Wright is the science writer for Time Magazine. Because he
writes for this popular magazine, he enjoys the attention of many readers
who look to him to provide them with the latest news from the scientific
community. After reading The Evolution of Despair, an article written by
Wright, I...
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- One very common mammal is the rabbit. Although have some
rodentlike features such as prominent incisors, they are placed in the
order Lagomorpha, which also includes hares and pikas. "lagomorph" comes
from a Greek word referring to the form of the split upper lip," or
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- In the essay "A Planet for the Taking," David Suzuki describes
Canadians' odd appreciation for this great natural bounty we call our own. He
is an internationally acclaimed scientist who is concerned about the welfare of
Canada. Suzuki's intended audience is the Canadian population that does...
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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 brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to muscles...
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- "We Have An Because We Have A People Crisis - A Crisis of
Population Growth, of Wasteful Consumption of Resources, and A Crisis of Apathy
and Inaction."
An environmental crisis is an emergency concerned with the place in which every
human lives - the environment. A people crisis is an emergency...
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- Robert Koch discovered , 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 animals. was the first bacterium shown to be the cause of a...
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- Before we can learn about we need to know a little bit about
light (since that is what a laser is made of). Light from our sun, or from an
electric bulb, is called white light. It is really a mixture of all the
different colours of light. The colours range from violet, indigo, and blue, to
green,...
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- Background: At the beginning of human history, we had to satisfy our energy
needs (for food, heat and movement) by using our own muscle power and gathering
or hunting naturally available plants, animals and wood. Each stage in the
evolution of human society (the development of farming,...
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- : The science by aid of which the chemical philosophers of
medieval times attempted to transmute the baser metals into gold or silver.
There is considerable divergence of opinion as to the etymology of the word,
but it would seem to be derived from the Arabic al=the, and kimya=chemistry,
which in...
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- What Effect will the have on Society?
People talk about the , but few actually know what it is and how big an effect is could have. Virtually everything is our society is vulnerable, from water and electricity to our phone bills and savings accounts. The is a design fault dating back to the early...
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- can be found in the SE sky in autumn, especially October. A
dark night is especially helpful because many faint stars make up .
This will help to make the fainter stars stand out because its hard enough to
see a shape in . Up and to the west of , pegasus can be found.
Down and to the east of...
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- are insects belonging to the order Diptera. Only females bite. Female have a long piercing proboscis (mouthpart) they use to extract blood from other animals. After mating with a male, the female needs a meal of blood to keep her developing eggs healthy. Male do not have a proboscis which allows...
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- A pale blue light in the lower part of Lyra shines the Th brightest star in the sky, Vega. This brightest star of Lyra is moderately above Caster and below Regulas in the Hertzpring-Russell diagram. It is between spectral classes B and A and between 10 and 100 times the real brightness of the sun....
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- DNA is the single most important molecule found within cells. It is a stable polynucleotide, which contains coded information for inherited characteristics. It is contained in chromosomes in the nucleus of an eukaryot cell. The essential features of the Watson-Crick model are summarised below.
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- There has been a great deal of excitement in the media over the significant commercial potential of the internet. Many commercial enterprises are viewing the internet as a significant element of their business operations. They see it as a means of advertising, selling and supporting their product...
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- Apes have 13 species of large, highly intelligent primates, including Chimpanzees, Gorillas, , and Orangutans. Apes are sometimes confused with Monkeys, but unlike their smaller primate counterparts, apes do not have tails and their arms are usually longer than their legs. Apes live in tropical...
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- Flowers fold their petals; plants fold their leaves as evening falls. With the exception of owls and their nighttime predators, the creatures of land, sea, and air curl up into their bedroom niches in the rocks, trees, and sand. Dawn comes and the unfolding begins. The outside world, which has...
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- are large molecules composed of smaller molecules called monomers. Monomers are produced and either grow together or are assembled to produce a single polymer. There are synthetic and natural . Some examples of natural would be wood, starches, fingernails, and hair. Synthetic are usually...
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- America's endangered areas are deplinishing daily. Natural disasters
are a major factor in their disappearance, but the most prominent factor is
mankind. Even though procedures are conducted daily to preserve our home, these
areas slowly crumble within our grasps. Protection of these areas is...
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- Multiple Personality Disorder ()
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
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- is one of the most fundamental biological processes. To start off, a protein is made in a ribosome. There are many cellular mechanisms involved with . Before the process of can be described, a person must know what proteins are made out of. There are four basic levels of protein organization. ...
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- In modern engineering, a systematic approach is used in the design,
operation, and construction of an object to reach a desired goal. The first step
of the process employs what is commonly known as the scientific method. The
next step involves forming an interdisciplinary team of specialists from...
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- Mars Climate Orbiter successfully blasted off a Kennedy Space Center launch pad for a 9-month journey to the Red Planet on Friday, December 11, 1998. The spacecraft will arrive in martian orbit in September 1999, where it will serve as a weather satellite for a full martian year (two full Earth...
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- The subject of deforestation and the effects that it has on the
environment have been heavily debated for a long time; particularly over the
last few years. Governments and large lumber companies see large profits in the
mass deforestation of forests and state that their actions are having few,...
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- In this report I will give a history on the development of . I will
cover some of the most important dates in the development of atomic theory.
An atom was first thought of by the Ancient Greeks who believed that
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- Dreams are a form of cognitive activity that occur during sleep. Like vivid memories and daytime fantasies, dreams involve visual images in the absence of external visual stimulation. Some dreams are so realistic and well organized that we feel as though they must be real-- that we simply cannot...
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- The environment can be something as vast as global weather patterns or as simple as the desert regions. With the advent of many technologies, the delicate balance of the environment has been upset (Elliot, 1961, p. 392). Strip mining, slash and burn farming, damming of rivers, and the extinction...
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- 1. With this definition of the flux being , we can now return to Faraday's
investigations. He found that the magnitude of the emf produced depends on the
rate at which the magnetic flux changes. Faraday found that if the flux through
N loops of wire changes by an amount , during a time delta t,...
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- Problem:
The researcher is trying to determine whether or not cleaning materials
will clean as well if they have been frozen solid and subsequently thawed out
until they have returned to a liquid state of matter.
The researcher will use Dial Antibacterial Kitchen Cleaner, Clorox
Bleach, and...
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- It is quite evident that as technology advances m the scientific sense, we as
Americans are becoming more interested. One of the conflicts that have raised
concern here lately is that on . By no surprise, one of
the major questions of many is whether or not these foods are safe. As altered
foods...
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- Abstract: Aluminum sulfate reacts with phosphates to create aluminum
phosphate and a sulfate. The conversion of the phosphate to aluminum
phosphate is very important because this allows the phosphate to be easily
extracted. This manipulation is used today in industrial waste treatment
sights. ...
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- 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 testosterone and estrogen and
progestogens (female sex hormones)....
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- The Effect of Concentrations of Starch and Sugar Solutions on Synthetic Semi-
Question: Is dialysis tubing selectively permeable?
Hypothesis: If one has dialysis tubing, which is dipped in water, filled with
Gatorade and starch and is left for 15 minutes, the sugar in the Gatorade will
exit the...
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- (BSE) is a relatively new disease found
primarily in cattle. This disease of the bovine breed was first seen in the
United Kingdom in November 1986 by histopathological examination of affected
brains (Kimberlin, 1993) . From the first discovery in 1986 to 1990 this
disease developed into a...
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- The rapid development of the technology for cloning has led to moral debates around the world on whether or not to ban creating human clones. With the advancement of clone technology two states, California and Michigan have already banned the cloning of humans. "Everybody who thought it would...
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- Why do some parasites kill the host they depend upon while
others coexist with their host? Two prime factors determine parasitic
virulence: the manner in which the parasite is transmitted, and the
evolutionary history of the parasite and its host. Parasites which
have colonized a new host...
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- Newton's Method is used to find the root of an equation provided that
the function f[x] is equal to zero. Newton Method is an equation created before
the days of calculators and was used to find approximate roots to numbers. The
roots of the function are where the function crosses the x axis. ...
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- The magnificent planet Mercury is the planet I have chosen to research. I this report I have explained all there is to know about Mercury and its aura.
The Romans gave Mercury its name after the fleet-footed messenger of the gods because it seemed to move quicker than any other planet. It is the...
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- 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
inherited diseases, once the problem of low efficiencies of effective...
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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!"
Initially, I wanted to write this paper on...
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- 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 that they looked reachable by the human hands.
The...
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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 mental term with a more accurate physical...
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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 people are treating the...
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- The Africanized Honey Bee is actually a variety of honeybee derived by hybridization from African honeybees naturalized in the western hemisphere. Because they are highly defensive and will attack perceived intruders more readily than the common European honeybee, they are also known by the popular...
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- Frog is the common name for a species of amphibian that also includes
toads. A very common question is 'whats the difference between and toads?'
, the answer: none, except for the fact that toads lack the powerful legs that
have. 'Where can and toads be found?', one might ask. They live...
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- Most of the world's electricity is generated by either thermal or
hydroelectric power plants. Thermal power plants use fuel to boil water which
makes steam. The steam turns turbines that generate electricity. Hydroelectric
power plants use the great force of rushing water from a dam or a...
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- Plants and animals in the temperate zones respond in different ways to
the amount of daylight in 24-hour periods. This response to day length is
called photo periodism. It controls many activities, among them is the
flowering of plants. The ability to respond to day length is linked to an
inner,...
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- The 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 concentrate mainly on the hibernating cycle of the black bear. There are...
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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 become dependent on...
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- Bioethics, 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 all areas in the scientific field (Bernstein, Maurice, M.D.). It is one of the factors that says whether or not...
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- Epilepsy is a very common disorder and the international researches and surveys shows that 1 adult from 200 people suffers by epilepsy. There are several forms of epilepsy and every form causes another epileptic attack. Epilepsy is spread world wide, but it is a fact that this disorder is not well...
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- As I am sure all of you know, we have recently been able to see a new but not
permanent additon to the night sky. This addition is known as Hale-Bopp, a comet
that is about 122 million miles (about 1.3 times the distance of the sun to the
earth) from the earth and is approximately 25 miles wide....
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- is somewhat of an umbrella topic. A pesticide is classified according to what its job is to control. There are four main types, or classes, of . They are herbicides, fungicides, rodenticides, and insecticides.
Herbicides are used to prevent the growth of, or to kill existing, unwanted plants. ...
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- We have learned much about the Woolly Mammoth almost more than any other
dinosaur that has been identified. Due to the fact that the Woolly Mammoth so
closely resembles today's elephants, care for them would most probably require
most of the same factors to keep it alive. Since the Woolly Mammoth...
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- Sickles Cell Anemia in Children (10 pgs)
In 1904 a hospital intern at The Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago Illinois, Dr. Earnest Irons, who was the first physician to describe sickle cells, wrote a report on Walter Clement Noel's blood.
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- SHARK FAMILIES: There are more then 350 know species of sharks today, which can
all be placed under 8 scientific orders that contain 30 families. They are
placed into these categories by their shared characteristics, this is called
taxonomy. The more closeley related species are placed in another...
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- Apollo 13 (AS-508): Houston, we have a problem.
The Apollo 13 mission was launched at 2:13 p.m. EST, April 11, 1970 from
launch complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The space vehicle crew consisted of
James A. Lovell, Jr. commander, John L. Swigert, Jr., command module pilot and
Fred W. Haise, Jr....
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The first attempt in cloning was conducted in 1952 on a group of frogs.
The experiment was a partial success. The frog cells were cloned into other
living frogs however, only one in every thousand developed normally , all of
which were sterile. The rest of the frogs that survived grew to...
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- A comet is generally considered to consist of a small, sharp nucleus
embedded in a nebulous disk called the coma. American astronomer Fred L. Whipple
proposed in 1949 that the nucleus, containing practically all the mass of the
comet, is a 'dirty snowball' conglomerate of ices and dust. Major...
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- America
Endangered species are plant and animal species that are in danger of extinction, the dying off of all individuals of a species. Over 19,000 plant species and 5000 animal species around the globe are classified as endangered, and many thousands more become extinct each year before...
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- Submitted to: Ms.Delgado
GEOGRAPHY
OUTLINE
1. a.WHAT IS AN AVALANCHE OR LANDSLIDE?
b.EXACTLY HOW DOES AN AVALANCHES OCCUR
2. a.I TALK A LITTLE ABOUT PAST AVALANCHES
b.PAST DEATHS FROM AVALANCHES
3. a.CONCLUSION CLOSING OF MY REPORT
What is an...
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- Concern with the environment is being voiced by people throughout
the world. Today, it is not unusual to read about environmental problems.
One problem that is important to all of us is the depletion of the ozone
layer. One question being asked is, does the depletion of the ozone cause
a danger...
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- 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 (MID), and Huntington's disease (HD). Throughout this essay...
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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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- 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 living on this
planet.
Some...
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- Part A - Introduction
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1. What are 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 freedoms or classical civil liberties,
' ethnic and religious rights...
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- AP Physics Period 2
In the spring of 1897 J.J. Thomson demonstrated that the beam of glowing
matter in a cathode-ray tube was not made of light waves, as "the almost
unanimous opinion of German physicists" held. Rather, cathode rays were
negatively charged particles boiling off the negative...
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- 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 lead to war, and war has caused...
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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, and pungere, meaning...
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- Chemistry 104
Prof. Holme
In 1951 Carl Djerassi, with the Mexican pharmaceutical company Syntex,
developed the first oral contraceptive by synthesizing and altering the natural
hormone Progesterone into a superpotent, highly effective oral progestational
hormone called...
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- The 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 has thrived despite the habitat change implemented by human development and expansion. The has always been a...
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- You are watching the control panels and gages for rector two. Sitting comely you think about how easy your job is. It is a joke! All day you sit around and watch the gages for reactor number two just to make sure they maintain their settings. You don't even need to look at the gages either because...
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- Genetic Engineering, history and future Altering the Face of Science. Science is a creature that continues to evolve at a much higher rate than the beings that gave it birth. The transformation time from tree-shrew, to ape, to human far exceeds the time from analytical engine, to calculator, to...
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- The science by aid of which the chemical philosophers of medieval times attempted to transmute the baser metals
into gold or silver. There is considerable divergence of opinion as to the etymology of the word, but it would seem
to be derived from the Arabic al=the, and kimya=chemistry, which in...
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- The Eye is the organ of that you gives your sight. Eyes enable people to perform tasks and to learn about the world that around them. Sight, or vision, is a rapidly occurring process that involves interaction between the eye the nervous system and the brain.
When someone looks at an object, what...
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- 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 that the Grandfather, Michael McMahon, has in the story...
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- Chemistry
As flight 143, a twin engine 767, was passing over Red Lake on its was
to Edmonton, Canada, the left front fuel pump warning light went on. There were
a few possibilities for this to happen, such as the fuel pump failing, a fuel
line clogging, or a empty fuel tank. The former two were...
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- are objects so dense that not even light can escape their gravity, and since nothing can travel faster than light, nothing can escape from inside a black hole . Loosely speaking, a black hole is a region of space that has so much mass concentrated in it that there is no way for a nearby object to...
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- Every spring there is a plethora of new animate beings. Creation
is a yearly event for most animals. There are countless children born each
day. All living beings procreate. Victor Frankenstein was a scientist,
and the goal of science is to discover new information, and Victor
Frankenstein was...
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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 that the next millennium will bring a...
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- After staying on the plant Earth reaching the human genetic technology, I have
come up with this report the four things I am going to talk about in this report
are: 1) What is the chemical basis of the plant Earth 2) What do human mean by
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- 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
4.3 The Disadvantages of RISC 8
5. Conclusion 9
6. References 10
1.Abstract
This report describes the CISC and...
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- In 1931 at the University of Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station M. C.
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- The world is an orb of life. In its limited space all life forms compete to hold their own position. As Darwin concluded in his theory of evolution, ?only the strong and most advanced survive, while the weak perish and are pushed aside.? Evolution, the theory we use today to fuel our need to win...
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- Introduction-Computers are changing the world as we know it, and they provide an interesting field of occupations.
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Big Bang...
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- ' work on planetary motion stood an a very high mathematical level
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- 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).
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Units 12, 13, 14
Essay - Effects of Dam Building
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time they become adults. Humans have used dams since early civilization,
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alternative, or unorthodox therapies refer to medical practices
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- 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. Meanwhile other critical issues play...
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- Purpose:
The objective of this experiment were: a) to review the concept of
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- Typically, the level of ocean water around the world is higher in the
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- INTRODUCTION
Imagine going fishing on a cool Autumn day, the trees are all different
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- CP-11 Period 6
Outline
Thesis: , which enlightened our minds to the
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controversial issues issues today.
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A. Standpoints on Extraterrestrials
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- The year was 1945. The war in the Pacific had reached it's climax with the
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Professor Arns
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energy. There are many possibilities such as hydroelectric energy, nuclear
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- There are many rainforests located throughout the
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5. Predetation
6. Reproduction
7. Family Life
8. Environmental Adaptations
9. Picture
10. Bibliography
ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTATIONS
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- Helium was discovered by a French astronomer named Pierre-Julius-Cesar
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1895 Sir William Ramsay discovered it in clevite, a uranium mineral.
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- Thesis: Large corporations, such as insurance companies, and governments are looking to save money on future policyholders through the use of genetic testing.
General information on the
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Who was involved
Where does the funding come from
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- "Article Summery" Name: "Immunity and the Invertebrates" Periodical: Scientific
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The complex immune systems of humans and other mammals evolved over
quite a long time - in some rather surprising ways. In 1982 a Russian zoologist
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