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UFO Sightings
1024 Words - 4 Pages.... 50-page review, being released today, asserts that the scientific
community might learn something worthwhile if it can overcome the fear of
ridicule associated with the topic and get some funding for targeted
research to try to explain these occurrences.
"It may be valuable to carefully evaluate UFO reports to extract
information about unusual phenomena currently unknown to science," the
report stated, adding that such research could also improve understanding
of, and in some cases debunk, supposed UFO events.
For example, Earth science researchers have eventually accepted several
phenomena "originally dismissed as folk tales," including meteorites and
certain typ ....
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Hurricanes
594 Words - 3 Pages.... Heat energy, released as the water vapor in the air condenses. As it condenses it drives the upper drafts to heights of 50,000 to 60,000 feet. The cumuli become towering thunderheads.
From outside the storm area, air moves in over the sea surface to replace the air soaring upwards in the thunderheads. The air begins swirling around the storm center, for the same reason that the air swirls around 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 ri ....
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Mononucleosis 3
1912 Words - 7 Pages.... age can get mononucleosis. Seventy to 80 percent of all documented cases, however, involve persons between the ages of 15 and 30. Both men and women are affected, but studies suggest that the disease occurs slightly more often in men than in women. Doctors estimate that each year 50 out of every 100,000 Americans have mononucleosis symptoms. Among college students, the rate is several times higher. Mononucleosis does not occur in any particular "season," although authorities in colleges and schools, where the disease has been well studied, report that they see most patients in the fall and early spring. Epidemics do not occur, but doctors have reported clustering of cases. ....
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Changing Undesirable Behaviors
615 Words - 3 Pages.... were recorded to help in establishing the baseline. The total number of opportunities was fifteen a day. Every time the action occurred, the subject was immediately picked up and placed back inside the house. Day's five through eight were designed to truly concentrate on implementing the developed program with the same number of opportunities to escape as the previous four days.
RESULTS
It was determined that the subject would almost always attempt to escape from the house when it was given the opportunity during the first four days. As the days progressed, it's total number of escapes decreased. This could be attributed to the fact that every time it found it's wa ....
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Endangered Species
625 Words - 3 Pages.... draining wetlands all alter the environments so extensively that ecosystems may be completely destroyed. With a burgeoning human population requiring food, shelter, and clothing and constantly demanding more energy-using devices, the temperation to exploit land for human use without regard for consequences is great. Frequently, several forms of environmental change are responsible for the disappearance of species. For example, as tropical forests are cut down, primates have progressively smaller feeding and living spaces. They also become more accessible to hunters, who kill monkeys for food and trap many primates for sale as pets, research animals, and zoo specimens. Some ....
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Le Virus Ebola (spanish Essay)
696 Words - 3 Pages.... famille des virus d'cArn appeles le filoviridae. Il y a quatre different especes du virus d'Ebole. Trois, qui cause la maladie chez l'homme se sont: -cote d'Ebola-Zaire
-d'Ebola-Sudan
-d'Ebola-Ivory
Le quatrieme virus est Ebola-Reston, a cause la maladie dans les primats non humains, mais pas chex l'homme.
Il y a aussi le question, ou le virus d'Ebole se trouve? Les scientists, est medcins, ne savons pas. Il croien que le virus est devenu d'une centre serveru animal, comme un chauff souris, un souris est probablement un singe. L'origine exacte, les emplacements et l'habitat normal du virus d'Ebole rest inconnus.
Comment Est ce-que le virus nous tuer? ....
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Internet Concepts
2935 Words - 11 Pages.... accesible Internet, es que las intranets son privadas.
Confidencial
Hasta hace muy poco tiempo, las corporaciones confiaban en equipos y programas propietarios para la instalación de redes en sus computadoras, un proceso costoso y que lleva tiempo de realizar, convirtiéndose en mucho más difícil cuando las oficinas de la compañía se encuentran repartidas por todo del mundo. Incluso en las mejores condiciones, el compartir información entre programas, formatos de archivo y plataformas diferentes no es una tarea sencilla. Por medio de la misma tecnología que se aplica a Internet, las intranets solucionan este problema, consiguiendo que las comunicaciones y colaboracio ....
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Gold 2
732 Words - 3 Pages.... ? Melting Point – 1,945.4 F
? Number of Protons/Electrons – 79
? Number of Neutrons – 118
? Classification – Transition Metal
? Crystal Structure – Cubic
Facts:
? Date of Discovery – Circa 3000 BC
? Discover – Unknown
? Name of Origin – From the Old English word geolo (yellow)
? Symbol Origin – From the Latin word aurum (gold)
? Uses – electronics, jewelry, coins
? Obtained From – crust of the earth, copper ores
Atomic and Chemical Properties:
In it’s usual state – atomic mass number 197 – gold is stable. However, there are radioactive (unstable) isotopes of mass number 186 ....
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