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American Alligator
Number of Words: 1307 / Number of Pages: 5
... help other members of the family Crocodylidae. Alligators are important ecologically and are dependent on the spatial and temporal patterns of water fluctuations. Patterns of courtship, mating, nesting, and habitat use are all dependent on marsh water levels. Alligators are a great study organism to study the adaptations and responses to the seasonal changes to the hydrological conditions in the everglades. Alligators seem to be able to adjust the height of the nest egg cavity based on the spring water levels, which historically indicated the water levels later in the nesting season. Water level ...
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The Quicksilver
Number of Words: 325 / Number of Pages: 2
... our world would be much different. We would have
different, if any, ways of determining temperature. Mercury is also used in
cleaning modern day swimming pools as "Mercury Vapor lamps" for sterilization.
Mercury can be used in both reconstructing and destroying life in water ways
depending upon the attention people give it. We would have no fast, economical
ways of cleaning large pools; no fast, economical way of controlling river
clean-ups. Life in our modern day households would be much, much colder because
we would have no way of having a auto-start heater- people would have to turn on
their heater ...
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UFOs: We Are Not Alone
Number of Words: 1554 / Number of Pages: 6
... aircraft were approximately the size
of a dc-4 airliner ( jackson 4).
This account was the first sighting to ever receive a great deal of
media attention. This sighting gave birth to the phrase "flying saucer" coined
by a reporter named bill begrette. Although not the first ufo sighting in
history, kenneth arnolds account is considered to be the first documented ufo
sighting. The following day mr. Arnold discovered that in addition to his
sighting there were several others in the mount ranier area that same day
(Jackson 6).
When most of us think of ufo sightings, we picture an unemployed, half-
cr ...
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Environmental Crisis
Number of Words: 1524 / Number of Pages: 6
... It stretches from Senegal and
Mauritania in the west to Ethiopia and Somalia in the east. These nations are
among the world's poorest.
The area is one of social and biophysical crisis because of the way the
population are forced to live; they are destroying the productivity of the land.
The alarming rate of population growth and ever increasing pressure on the land
have initiated an expansion of desert-like conditions into the Sahel - a process
called desertification.
Traditionally, the people of the drier, northern Sahel followed a nomadic
lifestyle, constantly moving their herds of cattle, sh ...
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Dreams
Number of Words: 924 / Number of Pages: 4
... This up bringing has also affected the way women dream. ³Women are more likely to dial into their interior life whether awake or asleep² (Segell 42). This means that women will read into their more frequently then men. Researchers have found that problems that occur during the day either at work or home and are worked through in your sleep (Segell 42). While men would most likely look at these as nothing but a dream, women will try to face these problems throughout the day. Although there are many differences there are also similarities between men and women in . ³Like women, you have sli ...
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Could The Greenhouse Effect Cause More Damage?
Number of Words: 504 / Number of Pages: 2
... square yards of the meadow. The infarared lamps will heat every other
section by 2.5 degrees. The unheated sections in between allow researchers to
compare the efects of the lamps with the regular state of the meadow.
One time a week, Harte will take gas samples from buckets turned upside
down for ten minutes at a time on both the heated and unheated strips through
fitted nipples at the bottoms of the buckets by syringes, then analyze them
with a gas chromatograph. "We'll be able to plot any changes in the meadow
very precisely," says Harte.
Some of these changes could alter th ...
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The Kangaroo
Number of Words: 1108 / Number of Pages: 5
... legs with four toes on each. The
front legs are short and have five toes with claws. These paws are used to
handle food. Most of it's weight it in the hind legs and tail. Kangaroos
can jump across flat land up to thirty miles an hour. Even though it is
quite timid, kangaroos can fight very hard. They use there paws to position
an opponent, and then kick them with the powerful back legs. They can rip
a dog or small child to death with a single stroke. Kangaroos belong to
the family Macropodidae, or Marsupials. It is related to the Koala,
Tazmanian Devil, Walaroo, and many other species of Kan ...
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Titanium
Number of Words: 645 / Number of Pages: 3
... alpha form changes to the cubic beta form very slowly at around 880 degrees Celsius. The metal combines with oxygen at red heat, and with chorine at 550 degrees Celsius. when a metal, is considered to be physiologically inert. Pure dioxide is kind of clear and has an extremely high index of refraction with an optical dispersion higher then diamond.
The location of on the Periodic Chart is in the series of sub groups called transition elements. Other then the fact that transition elements are metals, there is not a single property that all transition metals have in common.
Some of the prier and c ...
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Mini-Research
Number of Words: 286 / Number of Pages: 2
... He found e/m identical to those particles irrespective of the metal
the electrodes were made of or the kind of gas in the tube. In 1909, RA
Millikan, an American scientist, measured that charge. All electrons are found
to be identical no matter their source or the method of liberating them from
matter. From the values of e/m, and e, the mass of an electron was calculated
to be .00055 amu.
PROTON- Eugeen Goldstein used a Crookes tube with holes in the cathode, and
observed that another kind of ray was emitted from the anode and passed through
the holes. He discovered this in 1886. ...
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Data Warehousing
Number of Words: 3282 / Number of Pages: 12
... access, as well as the ability to manipulate and analyse information that the company has gathered for a single purpose, to make more intelligent business decisions. Whether to increase customer value, identify new markets or improve the management of the firm's assets, the data warehouse promises to deliver the information necessary to accomplish these tasks quickly and efficiently.
This report entails various aspects of Data Warehousing, ranging from a clear and concise definition of its working system through to its operational environment. It discusses its implications and effects on inter ...
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