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  • San Gabriel River and Its Drainage Problems

    San Gabriel River and Its Drainage Problems

    In 1938, the San Gabriel Mountains (Los Angeles, USA) experienced heavy amounts of rain. This then led to mass movement, such as mudslides, and flash flooding, which flushed through downtown LA, damaging buildings, homes and vehicles. After these events, a flood committee was formed, and networks of hard defences were set up along the long profile of the San Gabriel River. The aim: decrease the hydrograph, and reduce the risk of flooding. In the upper

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: July
  • Sanger Method of Dna Sequencing

    Sanger Method of Dna Sequencing

    SANGER METHOD OF DNA SEQUENCING DNA sequence determination is based on the high resolution separation of nucleotides on polyacarylamide or an algarose gel. One method used in determining this sequence is called the Sanger procedure. The components used are: a polyacarylamide or an algarose gel, DNA polymerase, a primer (a short sequence), template DNA (the DNA to be sequenced), deoxynucleotide triphosphate, and dideoxynucleitide phosphate. With all of these, double stranded DNA is made continuously until

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    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Bred
  • Santa Cruz Mountains

    Santa Cruz Mountains

    Santa Cruz Mountains When it comes to geology, nature itself and most all of planet earth brings great interest to me, from the configurations of land formations, to the stars night sky, and all the other wonders that it possesses. The Santa Cruz Mountains have always intrigued me, after numerous trips over the hills to visit Santa Cruz and on hikes and a visit to science camp in elementary school. The mountains can be seen

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Jack
  • Sasasa

    Sasasa

    The following is taken from Research Methods for Business Students (3rd Edition) by M. Saunders, P Lewis and A Thornhill, published by FT Prentice Hall, 2003. Table A2.1 Using the Harvard System to reference in the text To refer to Use the general format For example A single author (Surname date) (Saunders 1993) Dual authors (Surname and Surname date) (Saunders and Cooper 1993) More than two authors (Surname et al. date) (Slack et al. 1996)

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    Submitted: January 29, 2010 By: Victor
  • Save Our Water

    Save Our Water

    Have you ever seen all the pollution people put in our watersheds these days? If you don’t think that our watersheds are polluted then you need to go see our watershed, Lake Swamp. Do you know why it’s so important to stop pollution in watersheds? It’s important because if we don’t keep our water clean it will become polluted and non-drinkable. What do you think everyone could do to stop watershed pollution? Do you know

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    Essay Length: 561 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: June 10, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Saving a Life by Killing Another, Is Cloning Worth It?

    Saving a Life by Killing Another, Is Cloning Worth It?

    The Extended Essay Research Question: Saving a life by killing another, is cloning worth it? Introduction: Peter is eight years old. The doctors found out that he has hemophilia, a disease in which blood is unable to clot, due to a lack of the clotting factor VIII. This means that if Peter has a wound, his body will not be able to form a crust and heal. Instead, the wound will keep on bleeding until

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    Submitted: May 19, 2010 By: Mike
  • Saving Electrical Energy

    Saving Electrical Energy

    “Electrical Energy Consumption” Sustainability and electricity Where does electricity come from? Most people use electricity and see it as something that is infinite and probably don’t give a second thought about its source. This is quite understandable, considering electricity looks clean; it doesn’t cause any noise pollution or direct air pollution. The fact is that most electricity is produced by burning coal, and the use of nuclear power plants. Simply stated, the more electricity

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Saving Lives

    Saving Lives

    Cloning and stem cell research have great benefits that come with small costs. Benefits in the medical field along with economic benefits can be reached through stem cell research and cloning. The harvesting of the stem cells would be the only price to pay for such benefits. Stem cell research and cloning go hand in hand and always will until an alternative can be found. This is because of the way cloning is done and

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    Essay Length: 1,423 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Mike
  • Scabies

    Scabies

    Scabies While sitting around your house, watching television, you notice that you have been scratching your arm and in between your fingers for a little while. After taking a closer look you notice something that you assume is a rash and just ignore it. The next day however you notice that the rash has spread and that you think you see burrows in your skin. Then it hits you, the weekend that you spent away

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    Submitted: March 27, 2010 By: Mike
  • Scarborough's Network Centric - Warfare Meets the Laws of the Navy

    Scarborough's Network Centric - Warfare Meets the Laws of the Navy

    Scarborough's Network Centric Warfare Meets the Laws of the Navy Scarborough intends to persuade the reader that “Network-Centric Warfare (NCW) Or, in other words, the use of information technology in the Navy gives the appearance that a technological revolution and its cyberspace tools will improve friendly awareness on the battlefield. The opening sentence of the article grabs your attention with a calculated negative tone inferring that the author’s opinion is one that will attempt to

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    Submitted: March 31, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Scence Technology and Society

    Scence Technology and Society

    Introduction Technology and science are activities of central importance in contemporary life, intimately bound up with society’s evolving character, problems, and potentials. If scientific and technological pursuits are to further enhance human well-being, they and their effects on society and the individual must be better understood by non-technical professionals and ordinary citizens like us. Issues of professional ethics and social responsibility not only confront technical practitioners; We are also being asked with increasing frequency to

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    Essay Length: 2,186 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Schindler’s Lost

    Schindler’s Lost

    Shindler's List Schindlers List "Memory is all we have, and when the memories are dreadful- when they hold images of the pain we have suffered or, perhaps inflicted- they are what we are try to escape" (Corliss 110). Steven Spielberg captures the audience in this critically acclaimed movie about the Holocaust. Schindlers List is a movie made to induce the mind into the unknown, the horrors of World War II. David Ansen states "Schindlers

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    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Schizophrenia

    Schizophrenia

    Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that affects about one percent of the population. Generally if you have schizophrenia you cut out of contact with real world reality. The word Schizophrenia is Greek for “split mind”. It is common belief that a person with schizophrenia or a “schizo” has a split personality, but actually the person’s thinking, feelings, and behavior are so far from normal that they get to the point where they interfere with their

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    Submitted: April 7, 2010 By: Monika
  • Scholarly Aesthetic Appreciation Paper

    Scholarly Aesthetic Appreciation Paper

    Scholarly Aesthetic Appreciation Paper Nursing Situation My friend’s father had suffered a massive CVA two weeks earlier. He was in a vegetative state, and prognosis for any kind of rehabilitation was poor. The day before my visit, my friend and her three siblings had reluctantly decided not to install a feeding tube, and move him to in patient hospice. The room was dark and the four siblings were sitting away from the bedside in different

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    Submitted: February 10, 2010 By: Monika
  • Sci 110 Essay

    Sci 110 Essay

    Ky-Mani Harrison 9/19/2016 Professor Millet SCI 110-01 Science has large range of interesting components that make it up as a whole. Psychology is a vast and exciting field of study that is comprised of a plethora of branches. The ways in which it has been used to further improve society and examine individuals is nearly endless and it will continue to be that way as long as there are more mysteries of the brain to

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    Submitted: November 21, 2016 By: Ky-Mani Harrison
  • Sci 207 Wk 3 Lab

    Sci 207 Wk 3 Lab

    Lab 3 – Biodiversity Demonstration 1: Interdependence of Species Table 1: Interdependence of Species Results Round Species Missing (Bead Color and Name) 1 Trees: Orange 2 Flowers: Red 3 Humans: Blue 4 Bees: Yellow POST LAB QUESTIONS 1. Explain how the ecosystem was affected by the missing species for each round of the demonstration. 1. Round 1 = Without trees, pollution would destroy our environment and air. They wouldn’t be recycled and we could possibly

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    Submitted: August 4, 2015 By: Kristy Vasquez
  • Sci 230 - Galapagos Islands

    Sci 230 - Galapagos Islands

    The Galapagos Islands Christy Bosley Axia College of University of Phoenix SCI 230 Angela Buffington March 16, 2008 The Galapagos Islands The Archipelago de Colon is better known as the Galapagos Islands, who got their name from the Spanish word galapago. This word means “saddle” and refers to the shells of one of the islands’ most famous inhabitants, the Galapagos Giant Tortoise (Wikipedia, n.d.). The Galapagos Islands are a group of volcanic islands located about

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Sci Week 7 Assignment

    Sci Week 7 Assignment

    SCI WEEK 7 SCI week 7 ________________ SCI week 7 Now a days dietary supplements are being used everywhere in the U.S and sweeping the nation as we speak, but are dietary supplements safe? What are the benefits of taking dietary supplements, and what are some of the risks of these supplements? What are the government regulations surrounding dietary supplements, are they for them or against them? Many people use them and they are continuing

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    Submitted: August 15, 2016 By: princessbabie
  • Sci-Fi Films - the Matrix” and Bicentennial Man

    Sci-Fi Films - the Matrix” and Bicentennial Man

    In this essay I am going to discuss about the topic: “Science fiction often plays off the real against the artificial, either in the form of humans versus non-human (androids, cyborgs, synthetics), or the world versus the non-world (cyberspace, inner-space, intentional space)”. I have chosen the films “The Matrix” and “Bicentennial Man” An explosion in information access and exchange is fueling the Information Superhighway that was created as a result of the computer revolution. If

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    Essay Length: 1,864 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Yan
  • Sciecne and Technology

    Sciecne and Technology

    Technology Technology seems to change faster than most can keep pace with. Even simple tasks like writing letters has changed dramatically over the past few decades. Twenty years ago, the postal system was the most common way for people to communicate through writing. Now people use e-mail, allowing them to communicate with anyone in the world at the click of a mouse. Other activities associated with writing have also made a shift to computers, condemning

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    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Science

    Science

    Lately scientists have been studying and researching that the secret to losing weight isn’t to cut carbohydrates, it’s to consume more protein in your diet. These studies have shown that protein suppresses your appetite. These scientists did this study by having 19 volunteers with different diets. The results from this study show that when an increased protein intake of 15%-30% they felt less hungry, and also the calories from fat were reduced from 35%

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: July
  • Science

    Science

    The changes that I can start making for my life to be more environmental would be as follows. I would first start off by watching the heat that I use in my house during the winter time. Heat is known as the biggest energy use in homes. If you have your filters checked every so often and clean up the filters you will have a good heating system. Proper insulation is also a big

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Science

    Science

    Softwood lumber dispute CBC News Online | August 23, 2006 SOFTWOOD LUMBER GLOSSARY Softwood lumber: Easy-to-saw wood such as pine and spruce used in building. Board foot: A unit of volume for wood equal to 144 cubic inches, or one square foot of one-inch-thick board. Countervailing duties: Applied on imports found to be unfairly subsidized. Dumping: Selling goods in another country at less than what they cost to produce. Stumpage: A fee charged by Canadian

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    Submitted: April 16, 2010 By: regina
  • Science

    Science

    This is my science project. I compared cells to foot ball players. This is the list I used to describe the cells. 1. The nucleus is the control centre, it controls where all of the cell go. I chose this cell to be the quarterback because the quarterback control where he throws the ball or who he throws the ball to. 2. The chromosomes are found inside cells, They contain genetic info. I chose this

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    Submitted: December 13, 2015 By: trkw
  • Science & Technology

    Science & Technology

    Between pages 45-52, Sagan states the characteristics of science. Enlist which is the main idea of each paragraph. After each idea, explain, in your own words, what that idea refers to. • Science isn’t completely right all the time. By this statement, Sagan tries to make us realize the fact that no science is always exact. There will always be a certain margin of error. • Every experiment comes from imagination but follows a certain

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Victor
  • Science & Technology in Philippine Context

    Science & Technology in Philippine Context

    Science & Technology in Philippine Context Science has been described as "the means of understanding the natural environment", while technology is "the means of controlling and managing it". Hence Science and Technology together cover the gathering and generation of information about the material world and the application of that information for the welfare of mankind. Changes in science and technology cause changes in individual people that can make them look at their society differently, and

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    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Mike
  • Science and Ethics: Three Parent Baby

    Science and Ethics: Three Parent Baby

    Karolina Baker Science, Ethics and Society. Regulating the Innovators: Reputation, Reputation, Reputation. The recent birth of the worlds first “three parent baby” made headlines around the world. The controversial procedure was carried out using a technique known as pronuclear transfer. It has shown to completely cure a mitochondrial disease; known as Leigh syndrome. The fertility therapy relies on the fact that the inheritance of mitochondrial DNA is uniparental – it is only inherited from the

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    Submitted: March 13, 2017 By: Karolina Baker
  • Science and Religion Paper

    Science and Religion Paper

    Upon reading the documents On The movement of the Earth by Nicolaus Copernicus, Science and the Bible: “They Would Have Us Abandon Reason” by Galileo Galilei, one can see that the relationship between the Church and the scientific community had to be adversarial. Based on Copernicus conclusions about the Sun and moon, Galileo’s beliefs about the bible it is easy to see how the Church and the scientific community couldn’t be as one. Each

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    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Anna
  • Science and Technology in Literature

    Science and Technology in Literature

    Just an Analog Boy in a Digital World In the short story “Harrison Bergeron,” societal equality has been achieved by handicapping the most intelligent, athletic or beautiful members of society down to the level of the highest common endowment. To do so process central to the society which is overseen by the United States Handicapper General. At the time of the story, the office of Handicapper General is filled by the shotgun-toting Diana Moon Glampers.

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Mike
  • Science Elasticity

    Science Elasticity

    TERM PAPER IN SCIENCE IV _Mr. Michael Edar_ _Reynaldo B. Castro Jr._ Teacher Student Fourth Year Section Seven Elasticity I. Modeling Elasticity a. Linear Elasticity b. Young’s Modulus of Elasticity c. Approximation d. Elasticity Tenser II. Transition to Inelasticity a. Stress-Strain Curves b. Non-Newtonian Fluids c. Viscoelastic Fluids d. Viscosity III. Fluids Physics a. Newtonian Fluid b. Velocity Gradient c. The Centinuum Hypothesis d. Molecules e. Statistical Mechanics f. Knudsen Number g. Mean Free

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    Submitted: June 1, 2010 By: Wendy
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