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Archipelago
ARCHIPELAGO- a large group or chain of islands any large body of water with many islands and or in other words Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with many islands or with a group of islands. Some 50 million years ago, the archipelago was formed by volcanic eruptions which is how an archipelago is formed. ISLAND-An island is a piece of land that is surrounded by water. Water being any type of body
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Archival Science
As Derrida stated, “Archives affirms the past, present and the future; it preserves the records of the past and it embodies the promise of the present to the future.” The standard dictionary definition of the word archive is, “a place where documents and other materials.” In some usual cases, the word archive pertains to the “contents of museums, libraries, and archives and thus the entire extant historical record;” this definition is the reason why there
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Arctic National Oil Refuge
Arctic National Oil Refuge In this day and age it is hard to find a person in America over the age of sixteen who doesn’t own a vehicle. With all these vehicles driving around there is a need for a lot of gasoline otherwise known as petroleum or oil. Americans have gone to great lengths to keep a strong supply of gasoline at hand. Most of the American gasoline comes from places such as Saudi
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Are Aliens Real?
Many people across the planet earth can all relate to the mysteries of outer space and the possibility of other life forms existing throughout the solar systems of the galaxy. Are aliens real is a question that can be asked by anyone regardless of their age, race, religion, or creed. There has been an overwhelming amount of evidence that has been passed around by those who have claimed to come in contact with information
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Are Expeaectation About Child’s Development Related to Different Cultures?
Parental expectations of their children's development can be influenced bymany factors. factors like media, family beliefs, personal experience. Expectations come from several sources- from parents, teachers, family, peers and ourselves. All these factors relate to social and culture beliefs. Piaget stressed the importance of the environment in children's learningm seeing children as active builders of their own knowledge. The social constructive perspective on child development places main emphasis on the importance of the social environment
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Are Ufos for Real?
“Base Radar at the army’s 509th airfield outside the town of Roswell had been tracking strange blips all night on July 1, 1947... The blips would appear on one corner of the screen and dart across at seemingly impossible speeds for aircraft...Throughout that night and the following day, Army Intelligence stayed on high alert because something strange was going on out there...the Willmonts watched in awe as a bright oval object streaked over there house
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Are We Just Who We Are
To consider that we as humans are born with genetic directions determining who we become in my opinion are only part of the explanation. According to the article by Tom Wolf, Edward O Wilson believed that we as humans are born with genetic instruction that requires development in order to reach a predetermined mental destiny. If this were true, this would give, if anything, an excuse to those in society, who are thought to be
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Argue the Case for Integration of Knowledge in Applied Practitioners in Soccer. Highlight the Extent to Which Integrated Sport Science Support Programmes Currently Operate in Soccer.
ssociation football, or soccer, is arguably the most popular sport in the world. The professional game has become one of the most competitive and lucrative industries not only within sport, but as a business in general. The First World Conference of Science and Football was held in 1987, it was this conference that represented a major step forward in effecting a link between theory and football practice (Reilly & Gilbourne, 2003). In the years since
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Argument in Favour of the Poverty of Stimulus
In Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct (1994) he discusses various topics related to language acquisition and the mental life of language. He is a vehement follower of the Chomskyan theory of Universal Grammar and the innateness of language hypothesis. According to Pinker the well known assumptions that, “children learn to talk from role models and caregivers,... grammatical sophistication used to be nurtured in schools, but sagging educational standards… have led to a frightening decline in
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Argumentative Essay on Genetic Testing
Although genetic testing can benefit society in numerous ways, such as the diagnosis of vulnerabilities to inherited diseases and ancestry verification, it also has the precarious capability to become a tool in selecting a more favorable genetic makeup of an individuals and ultimately cloning humans. Genetic testing will depreciate our quality of life and may result in discrimination, invasion of privacy, and harmful gene therapy. In 1993 a pamphlet by National Heart, Lung, and Blood
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Arguments for and Against Genetically Modified Food
The Arguments for and against using genetically modified organisms in food production “Biotechnology involves any technique that uses living organisms or parts there of to make or modify products, to improve plants or animals or to develop micro organisms for specific uses” (Dr Sriwatanapongse, www.afic.org) In the past century we’ve have been lucky enough to stumble upon one of the basic building blocks of organisms, DNA. In recent years scientists have been able to develop
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Aristotle
Aristotle is one of the famous philosophers in ancient Greek philosophy, along with Plato and Socrates. Aristotle was born in the small Greek town of Stagiros in the northern Greek district of Chalcidice. Influenced by his father, the physician Nicomachus, Aristotle developed an early interest in science. Aristotle spent nearly 20 years at Plato's Academy, first as a student and then as a teacher. As a student of Plato he formed a love of philosophy
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Aristotle's Model of the Universe
Aristotle's Model of the Universe It is important to point out that Aristotle used his theory of violent motion to develop a model for the Universe. Aristotle, and philosophers before him, knew that the night sky experienced many different cycles: day and night, monthly phases of the moon and the yearly cycle of the Sun (seasons). Thus they thought the celestial objects must be on perfect crystalline spheres (the circle and sphere were thought to
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Aromatherapy Positively Affects Mood, Eeg Patterns of Alertness
Aromatherapy Positively Affects Mood, EEG Patterns of Alertness And Math Computations This study was done on volunteers of University of Miami Medical School; there were 40 adults in all their average age was in the 30. 30 female and 10 males, 43% White, 15% African American and 42% Hispanic. The purpose of this study was to see if aromatherapy positively effect people in the brain. The participants were randomly selected in 2 separate groups. Before
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Arousal and Paraphilia
Arousal And Paraphilia In society, there are many things that can be considered as “arousing” to different people in different situations. For instance, an individual could be aroused by men or women, and in some cases they are aroused by both. People are not the only way a person becomes aroused; it can be done by having a sense of fear, being in pain or inflicting pain on someone. Objects are also a cause of
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Arsenic
Arsenic is a chemical element on the periodic table. It is has an atomic number 33 and has the symbol As. Arsenic is a poisonous element and it is a metalloid. Arsenic is used in pesticides, because its very harmful to humans it is diluted and made to a less toxic state. Also, a lot of wood is treated with a form of arsenic to keep it from rotting and being infested with insects. Arsenic
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Arsenic
Arsenic Symbol: As Atomic number: 33 Atomic weight: 74.9216 History: Discovered Albertus Magnus 1250, a German alchemist also known as Saint Albert the great and Albert of cologne he became famous for his comperensive knowledge and coexistence of science and religion. He was conciderd to be the greatest German philosopher and theologian of the middle ages. Word origin: Latin arsenicum and Greek arsenikon: yellow orpiment, identified with arenikos, male, from the belief that metals were
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Arsenic Discovered by Albertus Magnus
Although it can cause skin cancer there are some positive effects of it such as a special ointment made from diluted arsenic and used in small amounts can be used to treat cancerous growths and tumors (Arsenic). It is classified as a semi-metal or metalloid. This means it has some properties of metals, and some properties of non-metals. Arsenic comes in 3 different solid type forms(Arsenic). One is a brittle, gray metal, a yellow, non-metallic
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Arterial Blood Gases - Abg’s
Arterial Blood Gases-ABGs What are ABGs? ________________________________________ ABGs, or Arterial Blood Gases, are a measurement of the body's acid/base balance and oxygenation status. pH -the concentration of hydrogen ions (H+) normal pH=7.35-7.45 paCO2 -the partial pressure of carbon dioxide (acid) in the blood, some of which is on its way to the lungs to be "blown off" in respiration. normal paCO2= 35-45 mmHg HCO3- -or bicarbonate (base, or alkali) is regulated mainly by the kidneys,
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Arterial Ulcer Treatment in Hyperbaric Chambers
Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment| ________________ ABSTRACT: In a study done by Heyboer et al[1] on treatments that can promote and encourage healing in diabetic patients suffering from unhealing arterial ulcers, the use of hyperbaric oxygen treatments was examined. This was done in order to compare with that of wound care in patients who had previously undergone revascularization surgeries and had still experienced unhealing arterial ulcers, as well as patients who were deemed ineligible to receive revascularization
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Arthritis - a Disease
Arthritis. Arthritis is a disease that in some way effects everyone. Whether you have arthritis or not, chances are, you know someone who does and can see the effect it has on them. There are some common misconceptions about arthritis, types of arthritis, and the causes. There are in fact some different types of the disease that most people don’t know about. One type of arthritis is osteoarthritis. It is a degenerative arthritis (a
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Arthropod Diverisy
Arthropods are part of the largest and most diverse phylum in the animal kingdom. The phylum which I am speaking of is called Arthropoda, which is Latin for “jointed feet.” Arthropods are arranged of more than one million invertebrate species within four subphyla. The four subphyla consist of five classes of Uniramia including insects, three classes of Chelicerata including horseshoe crabs and arachnids, Trilobita (which are extinct), and Crustacea. When you break down an
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Arthroscopy Is an Endoscope
Arthroscopy is an endoscope that is inserted through an incision near a joint like the knee and is used for the visual examination, diagnosis, and treatment of the interior of a joint. Arthroscopy is a surgical procedure orthopedic surgeons use to visualize, diagnose, and treat problems inside a joint. When someone tears their ACL they are tearing their anterior cruciate ligament. When someone. Grafting is most commonly heard of as skin grafting which is taking
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Arthur Kornberg
Arthur Kornberg Written by: jrreid A. Personal Information Arthur Kornberg (1918-), American biochemist and physician, claims he has never met “a dull enzyme.” He has devoted his life to pursuing and purifying these critical protein molecules. His love of science did not spring from a family history rooted in science. He was born on March 3rd, 1918, the son of a sewing machine operator in the sweatshops of the Lower East Side of New York
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Article Summaries - Extreme Weight Loss Surgery Works It Thanks Knife or Microbes
Health: An article that I read from http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/08/extreme-weight-loss-surgery-works-it-thanks-knife-or-microbes, indicates a study that was done that a certain type of microbe is the cause of weight loss in bypass patients. I learned that the microorganism microbiota (“the swarm of microbes that dwell in our intestines and helps us digest food”) may be the reason that the weight loss in bypass occurs. They performed a study on 14 women who had the surgery and overweight people who
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Article Summary Ozone Layer
Article Reflection: Ozone Layer Ozone: The Pollution Paradox This article was based on information about ozone pollution. In my opinion this article gave a lot of valuable information and I learned a lot of things I never had knowledge of. For example, the atmosphere forms and destroys the ozone, the ozone can have an effect on the human body and the article also provided information on what we could do about the ozone layer
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Artificial Cells Talk to Real ones
Artificial Cells Talk to Real Ones The article was written by Jef Akst on February 1, 2017 and published on the website TheScientist.com. The source material for the article comes from the University of Trento, Italy and the experiment/lab work was performed by Sheref Mansy and her colleagues. The article speaks of how Mansy and his colleagues have created nonliving cells that were developed in his lab that have the ability to communicate chemically with
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Artificial Heart
Artificial Heart The never ending pursuit of advancement by science and technology in its endeavor to ease the human life has been so tremendous that what we once thought was unfeasible is now a reality, such as in the creation of artificial organs. From an historic angle, no one would have ever imagined the possibility of providing a functional substitute for one of nature’s creations. Since ancient times, people have viewed the heart as more
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Artificial Insemination: What You Need to Know
Artificial Insemination: What you need to know By: Brittany Joiner Did you know that here are many people that are enable to have children the natural way? Well now there is ways around such a tragic obstacle it’s called Artificial Insemination. In this paper I will tell you everything you need to know about the process, who becomes a donor, why people use it and what are the advantages and disadvantages. You will also find
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Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Recently, the media has spent an increasing amount of broadcast time on new technology. The focus of high-tech media has been aimed at the flurry of advances concerning artificial intelligence (AI). What is artificial intelligence and what is the media talking about? Are these technologies beneficial to our society or mere novelties among business and marketing professionals? Medical facilities, police departments, and manufacturing plants have all been changed by AI but how? These
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