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Bulemia
651 Words - 3 Pages.... further. I went to Palmer College of Chiropractic's
library hoping to consume as much information as possible to prove
Parents' Magazine wrong. I found several medical journals, psychiatric
journals, and books on the topic of eating disorders that could affirm my
feelings.
As I tried to rationalize my friend's behavior, I decided that social
acceptability had to have played a large part in her illness. I also took into
account that her mother had passed away about 7 years before she broke
her news to me, and she had also given up her crown as Miss Iowa, so
depression could have been a factor as well. Another aspect of eating
disorders that I discovered ....
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Cloud Formations
510 Words - 2 Pages.... in these three divisions according to the clouds' altitude.
First, we have the high clouds that range in altitude from 16,500 to 45,000 feet. In this division we have the cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus clouds. A cirrus cloud appears in delicate, feather-like bands that are not attached to each other, and is usually white with no shading. Cirrocumulus clouds appear like very small round balls or flakes. The cirrocumulus clouds sometimes form a pattern of a buttermilk sky. The cirrostratus clouds sometimes form tangled webs or thin whitish sheets. A large ring or halo is sometimes seen around the sun or moon when the cirrostratus covers the sky.
The middle layer ....
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Acid Rain
795 Words - 3 Pages.... ecological damage to the planet. The problem was that by the
time that the scientist found the problem it was already very large.
Detecting an acid lake is often quite difficult. A lake does not become
acid over night. It happens over a period of many years, or even decades.
The changes are usually to gradual for them to be noticed early.
At the beginning of the 20th century most rivers and lakes like the
river Tovdal in Norway had not yet begun to die. However by 1976 local
inspectors were noticing that many of the lakes were beginning to show
signs of death. Fish were found dead along the banks of many rivers. As the
winters ice began to melt off more and more hundreds up ....
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The History Of White-Tailed Deer In Kentucky
606 Words - 3 Pages.... have about 450,000 deer.
The white-tailed deer breeding season in Kentucky runs from October
through mid January, reaching its peak in November. Most fawns are born in June,
following a seven month gestation period. Newborn fawns will weigh about four
pounds at birth.
Deer offspring are cared for and may remain with the mother until the
next spring. Fawns retain their spots until mid September and nurse until mid
October. About 40 percent of female fawns breed during their first autumn, but
usually bear only one fawn. Does breeding at age 1 1/2 or older generally have
twins, and sometimes triplets. By November, Kentucky's deer population typical
increases slig ....
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Nuclear Energy 2
2921 Words - 11 Pages.... is instantly turned to steam which creates tremendous amount of pressure in the reactor core. Above the reactor core there is a 5 foot thick lead plate and above that there is a meter thick floor composed of iron, barium, serpentine, concrete, and stone. The exploding steam fires the floor up like shrapnel. The metal plate goes through the four foot thick concrete roof like butter and reaches and altitude of sixty meters. You can hear ripping, rending, wrenching, screeching, scraping, tearing sounds of a vast machine breaking apart. L. Ray Silver, a leading author who covered the disaster at Chernobyl, said that within the core, steam reacts with zirconium to produce that fi ....
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Protein Synthesis
770 Words - 3 Pages.... eukaryotes and prokaryotes, they are the basic mechanisms for which proteins are formed in all living organisms.
There are four main levels of a protein, which make up its native conformation. The first level, primary structure, is just the basic order of all the amino acids. The amino acids are held together by strong peptide bonds. The next level of protein organization is the secondary structure. This is where the primary structure is repeated folded so that it takes up less space. There are two types of folding, the first of which is beta-pleated sheets, where the primary structure would resemble continuous spikes forming a horizontal strip. The second type of ....
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Soil Salinity
286 Words - 2 Pages.... the
delicate balance between surface water and groundwater systems. A small increase
in the infiltration of water from the topsoil to the groundwater, due to
rainfall or irrigation, can result in a dramatic rise in groundwater pressure
and watertable levels.
The trees of the open forests are now replaced by shallow-rooted crops and
pastures which absorb far less water than the native trees. Those trees had been
massive water pumps, sucking up moisture from deep underground and putting it
back into the atmosphere through the evaporation from their leaves. With those
pumps gone, excess rainfall accumulates underground and watertables rise to the
surface, bringing ancient sed ....
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Genetic Diversity In Agriculture
709 Words - 3 Pages.... commonly used in the context of plant breeding
as I described above, but it also applies to the freezing and the storage of
animal sperm and embryos for use in animal husbandry or artificial insemination.
An understanding of crop origins and variations is necessary in
assembling genetic diversity in plant crops. In certain geographical areas
there has existed a rich source of variability in crop plants but the
encroachment of civilization has reduced the natural variability inherent in
primitive plant forms and related species of crop plants. Agricultural process,
as a result of new breeding programs, has reduced rather than increased crop
variability as improved cultiva ....
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