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The Expanding Field of Radiology: What Role Do You See for Yourself?
The role of the radiologist is one that has undergone numerous changes over the years and continues to evolve a rapid pace. Radiologists specialize in the diagnoses of disease through obtaining and interpreting medical images. There are a number of different devices and procedures at the disposal of a radiologist to aid him or her in these diagnoses’. Some images are obtained by using x-ray or other radioactive substances, others through the use of sound
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The Expected Effects of Global Warming
The Expected Effects of Global Warming One of the current and most widely discussed environmental issues affecting the world is global warming. Global warming could lead to the end of Earth and the existence of man. Current trends clearly demonstrate that global warming is having a direct effect on rising sea levels, significant worldwide climatic changes, and the melting of icecaps. Scientists are trying to determine the how fast the Earth is heating up, and
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The Eye
Eye is the organ of sight. It is our most important organ for finding out about the world around us. We use our eyes in almost everything we do--reading, working, watching movies and television, playing games, and countless other activities. Sight is our most precious sense, and many people fear blindness more than any other disability. The human eyeball measures only about 1 inch (25 millimeters) in diameter. Yet the eye can see objects as
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The Fall of Twins
Introduction On September 11, 2001, the whole world watched as the towering symbols of American economic might crumbled down the streets of lower Manhattan. The collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers left everyone in disbelief. The chain of events were so abrupt, anxiety filled the streets of New York. It has been said that the buildings design were structurally deficient, that the steel trusses melted and gave way, or the sprinkler system failed
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The Falling Sky
I gave this paper quit a bit of thought; I was sitting in a meeting on some air problems here at General Motors and started doing some investigation. Life on this planet Earth is the product of a delicate balancing act provided by nature. Mankind’s very existence is totally dependent on this fragile ecosystem’s ability to maintain itself. A valuable player in the balance of the environment, the ozone layer, is facing a very serious
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The Families of Flowering Plants
Asphodelaceae (Aloe Family) CLASSIFICATION Dahlgren et al. (1985) divided the Monocotyledons into several superorders of which the Liliiflorae is the largest. The order Asparagales is the largest of the five orders within Liliiflorea. One of the families within Asparagales recognized by Dahlgren and his co-workers was Asphodelaceae (Chase et al. (2000). Asphodelaceae consists of the sub-families, the Asphodeloideae and the Alooideae. The Alooideae consists of six genera of which Aloe is the largest. The sub-family
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The Fear of Science
To live in the today's world is to be surrounded by the products of science. For it is science that gave our society color television, the bottle of aspirin, and the polyester shirt. Thus, science has greatly enhanced our society; yet, our society are still afraid of the effect of science. This fear of science can be traced back to the nineteenth century where scientist had to be secretative in experimenting with science. Although
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The Fight and Flight Response
The fight and flight Response The fight and flight response is our body's primitive, automatic, inborn response that prepares the body to "fight" or "flee" from perceived attack, harm or threat to our survival. I decided to test the question how this fight and flight response effects the body. How it effects the cardiovascular system ( pulse rate) , the respiratory system, And Watch out for angry red faces, cold and clammy skin, signs of
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The Fire Ant
The Fire Ant (general overview and personal perspectives) The “Fire Ant” is one of the most feared migratory arthropods in North America. The first non-native species was introduced into the Port of Mobile, Alabama, starting in 1919, through soil ballast, from South American ships, being dumped ashore. The black fire ant (Solenopsis richteri Forel) arrived sometime in 1919, and the red fire ant (Solenopsis invicta Buren) sometime in the late 1930’s; both much more aggressive
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The Fit-Concept in Strategic Management – an Inappropriate Idea for Companies in the 21st Century?
Executive Summary The aim of this paper is confronted with the question of how the fit concept in strategic management is an appropriate idea or not for companies in the 21st century. After a short introduction about strategy which is defined by Michael E. Porter (1980), we will describe some basic concepts. Cited by Porter (1985, 1996) and Thomson/Strickland (1998), we find out that operational effectiveness is a helpful tool, but not enough for gaining
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The Flaw of Evolutionary Theory
The Flaws of Evolutionary Theory In the early years scientists once believe that life came from spontaneous generation, process by which life was thought to be formed from a nonliving substance. Early scientists thought that mud produced fish and that rotting meat produced flies was a justification for what people observed. In 1668 an Italian physician, Francesco Redi put this theory into action. His design of a controlled experiment to test the idea of the
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The Fluvial System in a Piedmont Zone
The Fluvial System in a Piedmont Zone Fluvial and glacial geology are two of the foremost important systems and concepts in geomorphology. Both systems work in a variety of different ways to sculpt landscapes all around the world. The book The Fluvial System by Stanley Schumm focuses on those aspects of the fluvial system and how they have changed the world around us over the past few centuries. Schumm has spent the majority of his
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The Food Guide Pyramid Is Good
The food guide pyramid plays an important role in the health education of the majority of people in the United States. It is meant to guide the general healthy public in how to eat healthy to stay healthy. It includes a wide variety of foods to provide a healthy range of nutrients that are needed daily. The food guide pyramid is an excellent way to educate the public on how to eat healthy. The
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The Fox in Australia - Solving the Problem
Since its’ introduction to Australian shores in 1845, the European fox, or vulpes vulpes, has had a disastrous impact on the native environment. So much so that this highly adaptable mammal, originally brought to Australia for recreational hunting purposes, is now a target for extermination. Their ability to adjust quickly to changes in their environment and thrive, which has lead to much harm to both aboriginal Australian species and livestock, now means that we are
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The Frog
A group of frogs were hopping contentedly through the woods, going about their froggy business, when two of them fell into a deep pit. All of the other frogs gathered around the pit to see what could be done to help their companions. When they saw how deep the pit was, they agreed that it was hopeless and told the two frogs in the pit that they should prepare themselves for their fate, because they
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The Frog, Dissection Utensils, Dissection Manual, and the Dissection Pan
Leopard Frog Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Genus: Rana Species: Rana pipiens I. Purpose: To examine the frog externally and internally by dissection. II. Materials: 1. Frog 2. Dissection pan 3. Manual 4. Dissection utensils III. Methods: A. External: The dissectors set up for their lab by getting the following materials: the frog, dissection utensils, dissection manual, and the dissection pan. Dissectors placed the frog anteriorly with the dorsal
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The Future of Genetics
The Future of Genetics The HGP began in 1990, it is a 13-year effort coordinated and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health. The Human Genome Project’s goals are to identify all the 100,000 genes in human DNA; determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA; store this information in databases; develop tools for data analysis; transfer related technologies to the
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The Future of Industrial Civilization
The Future of Industrial Civilization Industry as defined by most people is a set of technologies which when combined together will serve to make human lives a lot easier. It began during early eighteenth century when the industrial revolution took place. Today, industrial civilization is almost everywhere. It makes the world a so much better place to live that nobody could ever imagine what our world would be like without industrial civilization. A lot of
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The Future of Medical Science Is Now
The advances in modern medical science in the near future are dependent upon the advances of methods and procedures that by today’s standards are considered to be taboo and dangerous. These methods will not only revolutionize the field of medicine but they will be the forerunners to a whole knew way to treat people. For these advances to take place several key steps need to be taken both medically and politically. In this paper I
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The Galapagos Islands
The Galapagos Islands The Galapagos Islands are a group of 16 islands located in the Pacific Ocean that straddle the equator about 525 miles west of the South American Coastline. The islands were formed by underwater volcanoes millions of years ago and belong to Ecuador. The Galapagos are well known for their vast diversity in plant and animal populations. Some of the plant and animal life found on the islands cannot be found anywhere else
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The Garbage Crisis in America
The Garbage Crisis: What is it and how are we dealing with it? Specific Purpose: To inform my audience of the Garbage Crisis in America and the two main ways the problem is dealt with. Central Idea: The two ways Americans deal with the Garbage Crisis are recycling, and dumping in landfills. Introduction I. How many people in this room go grocery shopping and think consciously about the waste that will be produced from your
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The General View of Lagging and Leading Strand Synthesis
The General View of Lagging and Leading Strand Synthesis The synthesis of a new strand of a replicating DNA molecule as a series of short fragments that are subsequently joined together. Only one of the new strands, the so-called lagging strand, is synthesized in this way. The other strand (leading strand) is synthesized by continuous addition of nucleotides to the growing end, i.e. continuous replication. The difference arises because of the different orientations of the
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The Germination of Vigna Radiata Affected by Water Pollution
Won Gi Hong IB Candidate Number: 001207-0020 IB Environmental Systems and Societies SL Y2 10/31/2015 The Germination of Vigna radiata Affected by Water Pollution Background: Water pollution is the contamination of a body of water due to pollutants entering it at a magnitude greater than what can be retained naturally. This type of pollution is becoming a serious problem with the advent of developing technologies and increasing numbers of factories emitting pollutants through sewage. These
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The Giant Panda Express
Bishop The Giant Panda Express The Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is a beloved creature known to the world. However, it is also a creature that is critically endangered and faces extinction. As human advancements obliterate the habitats and influence the lifestyle of the Giant Panda, research is conducted to uncover the cause of the Giant Panda’s current predicament and to improve the methods of conservation to save the Giant Panda. Information gained by researching the
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The Global Coronary Artery Diseases
The Global Coronary Artery Diseases • Introduction Although great progress in combatting fatal diseases has been made across the globe, there still remain stringent problems in this imperative issue. As the world is experiencing a huge transition in health challenges, emphasis of epidemiological situation has transferred from communicable diseases to non-communicable diseases. According to GBD 2000 (RWAC, 2015), the number in total dying from non-communicable diseases is shocking increasing. Coronary artery diseases, as the prominent
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The Golden Ratio
The Golden Ratio The golden ratio is a number used in mathematics, art, architecture, nature, and architecture. Also known as, the divine proportion, golden mean, or golden section it expresses the relationship that the sum of two quantities is to the larger quantity as is the larger is to the smaller. It is also a number often encountered when taking the ratios of differences in different geometric figures. Represented mathematically as approximately 1.618033989, and
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The Great Alaska Earthquake
March 27, 1964 a magnitude 9.2 earthquake hit Alaska its epicenter located in Prince William Sound, 75 miles east of Anchorage. This earthquake was and still is the second larges earthquake ever recorded (Christensen). The plates involved In this major earthquake were the Pacific plate and North American plate. This subduction zone is know as Aleutian-Alaska megathrust zone (Sokolowski). This region was known for its active plate tectonics, but this earthquake did come as
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The Great Blizzard of 1888
Throughout the history of the United States we have had many storms, hurricanes, natural disasters, tornadoes and even blizzards. Now all of these storms and blizzards happen all over the place and even sometimes right here in Montclair New Jersey. Living in New jersey can be seen good and bad in a sense of weather. Good because there are no tornadoes and bad because there are blizzards and even hurricanes. As over the years here
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The Great Debate
Evolution: The Great Debate” The controversy over evolution vs. creation has been around for a long time. The thought that someone either created the universe, or the universe made itself is agreed on both sides and both sides agree that at some point the universe began. That is where the agreement ends and the disagreement begins. There are two basic theories Creation and Evolution. The following paragraphs will go into depth on both side of
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The Great Horned Owl
The Great Horned Owl The Great Horned Owl comes from the Strigidae family. Its scientific name is Bubo Virginianus. Bubo comes from the Latin word meaning “owl” or from the Greek word for “eagle owl” used by the 1st Century Roman naturalist Pliny (Gaius Plinius Secundus). Virginianus, meaning “of Virginia” is where the first specimen of Great Horned Owls was collected. Some other names for the Great Horned Owl are; Grand-duc d’Amerique, in French, and
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