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Hurricanes
Number of Words: 594 / Number of Pages: 3
... a tornado center.
As this air swirls in over the sea surface, it soaks up more and more water vapour. At the storm center, this new supply of water vapor gets pulled into the thunderhead updrafts, releasing still more energy as the water vapor condenses. This makes the updrafts rise faster, pulling in even larger amounts of air and water vapor from the storm's edges. And as the updrafts speed up, air swirls faster and faster around the storm center. The storm clouds, moving with the swirling air, form a coil.
In a few days the hurricane will have grown greatly in size and power. The swirling shape ...
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Tomatoes
Number of Words: 500 / Number of Pages: 2
... led people to believe the tomato to be poisionous. It was therefore fortunate that Miller changed the species name to esculentum which roughly means "edible".
The common cultivated tomato belongs to the genus Lycopersicon. This genus exhibits a vast reservoir of genetic variability which remains largely underexploited. Some disease resistance, which is now a part of most commercially available cultivars, has been derived from related species of Lycopersicon. However, these other species may provide other potential benefits such as heat or cold tolerance, salt tolerance, higher nutrient amounts and po ...
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Leprechaunism
Number of Words: 1521 / Number of Pages: 6
... Acanthosis nigricans. This symptom is not exclusive to , as it is caused by high insulin levels. This pigmentation normally occurs in areas of the body where flexing and bending occurs, such as the back of the neck.
Reddening of the skin or erythema. This is caused by localized irritation. Most often the areas of the body most affected are those such as the gluteal cleft, groin area, and other places that friction might occur. It is not limited to these areas as it occurs on any other part of the body as well, such as the extremities.
Pincer nails. This is where the nails o ...
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Geology Fo Mars
Number of Words: 1330 / Number of Pages: 5
... between one to four km above the datum. Ejecta from the impact scatter around the crater making a rim like structure.
The northern hemisphere is very low compared to the southern hemisphere. In the north the ground level rarely reaches above one km below the datum. This stark contrast between north and south is thought to have happened 3 Gyr ago. The south was continuously bombarded with meteors. The north would get hit but it would erode or volcanic flows would cover it. The north also has evidence of ancient stream channels and at the extreme north and south glaciers are still present in ...
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Mono 2
Number of Words: 1032 / Number of Pages: 4
... In rare cases this
disease may be transmitted through blood transfusions. The disease is usually
transmitted to family members, friends and people that you may go to school
with, rather then people that live in the same community.
People often come in contact with the disease or EBV bacteria at least
once in there life. Although symptoms are incredibly mild or they are not
present at all. When the disease is present in a persons blood stream it is only
contagious for the first two weeks . Although, the disease may be present for
the rest of a person's life, it discontinues to produc ...
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Vivisection
Number of Words: 349 / Number of Pages: 2
... by the judge when they are being sentenced for their crime.
I understand that there is another opinion to this debate. I can almost understand why they would believe in . The only time I believe it should be used is for patients dying of cancer. I still do not think it is right. We might not have some of the cures we have today without animal testing, although maybe we would. Maybe we would have more. Nobody knows. I still firmly think it is wrong to do evil experiments on animals.
A big problem today is whether or not scientists should use animals for experimental purposes. If we have other al ...
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Internet 2
Number of Words: 1191 / Number of Pages: 5
... the internet, a network is open to milions of potentially prying eyes. Moreover, there is no one to verify the validity of the credit card. To ensure that the person using the card is actually the card holder. The buyer might have exceeded the limit or can be using a stolen card. Likewise, the buyer has no assurance that the vendor on the other end is who he/she claim to be. Richard E. Smith in Internet cryptography says that data travels from one computer to another leaving the safety of its protected surroundings.
Once the data is out of the sender's hand it can fall into the hands of people wit ...
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Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder
Number of Words: 1297 / Number of Pages: 5
... and made no mention of their educational needs or social skills. He said that part of the problem with ADHD children was "deficient training in the home." In 1923, researcher, F. G. Ebaugh, was one of the first to publish a professional paper recognizing ADHD as a long-term problem requiring cooperation and intervention by several professional disciplines.
Over the past four decades, dozens of labels have been used for a collection of traits that has come to be known as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Children who have some of these traits show them most of the time; the types, num ...
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Polio
Number of Words: 416 / Number of Pages: 2
... proved effective, treatment is entirely symptomatic. Use of moist heat coupled with physical therapy to stimulate the muscles was first initiated by the Australian nurse Elizabeth Kenny, and antispasmodic drugs are administered to produce muscular relaxation. In the convalescent stage, occupational therapy is used.
Disease Control
Three broad types of the virus have been identified: the Brunhilde (type 1), Lansing (type 2), and Leon (type 3) strains. Immunity to one strain does not furnish protection against the other two.
Poliomyelitis control was made possible when, in 1949, the American bacteri ...
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Hysteria
Number of Words: 654 / Number of Pages: 3
... 2). When one person sees another running about wildly and finds out what the cause is, he or she will do the same; until eventually the idea spreads to the entire population. Some problems that cause these are “overly strict regulations, lack of open communication between the authorities and the residents, as well as inadequate healthy recreational outlets”(Hayes 1). All these issues are things that if performed, can help prevent or calm an outbreak of mass .
In the Salem Witch Trials, the “existing difficulties” that led up to the witchcraft theory were ordinary s ...
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