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- 3471: The General Effects Of Fire On
- ... and helps maintain the condition of habitats for wildlife. The effect of fire depends upon many factors, varying from the type of wildlife to their different habitats. Fire affects ungulates through positive, but often, short-lived improvements in diets by allowing ungulates to consume new plant growth. Fire mediates species interactions thereby reducing conflict. Birds are often positively benefited or unaffected by fire in the short-term. The beneficial role of ...
- 3472: Technology And Education
- ... for schools. Unlike books, which represent generally fixed costs, technology requires a significant, continuous monetary input. The useful lifetimes of computers and their software are sometimes measurable in months, not years. Costs for potentially short-lived computer hardware and software quickly become enormous. Also, these costs may be difficult to predict with accuracy as new products are developed (Garrett 114). Many schools have attempted to spend the money, take risks and ...
- 3473: Genetic Faltering
- ... babies that are born without vital body organs, this is what the use of genetic engineering brings to the world. “In Greek myth, an chimera was a part lion, part goat, part dragon that lived in Lycia; in real life, it’s an animal customized with genes of different species. In reality, it could be a human-animal mixture that could result in horror for the scientific community. In myth ...
- 3474: Medical Revolutions
- ... of destroyed blood vessels. If the treatment of severe bleeding calls for dramatic measures today, it was heroic then. According to one source, blood transfusions were attempted exactly twice during the war; one died, one lived. The latter was thought to be in the divine hands to be sure. To the casual peruser of Civil War medicine, the general impression seems to be that our greatest calamity brought forth little more ...
- 3475: Natural Forces
- ... twister passed through the town. Towards the end of 1989, my family and I were on vacation in Fort Myers, Florida. We drove from Trenton, New Jersey all the way to Florida where my grandfather lived. It was a long trip to undergo, especially being six years old and knowing that my father never stopped the car. By the time we arrived at Fort Myers, it was a beautiful sunny day ...
- 3476: Lyme Disease
- ... first recognized in 1975 after researchers investigated why unusually large numbers of children were being diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis in Lyme and two neighboring towns. The investigators discovered that most of the affected children lived near wooded areas likely to harbor ticks. They also found that the children's first symptoms typically started in the summer months coinciding with the height of the tick season. Several of the patients interviewed ...
- 3477: Gibbons
- ... of humans, allowing for large brains and forward-pointing eyes. Like humans, apes also have bare skin on their faces, which enables them to communicate by making different facial expressions. Great apes are exceptionally long-lived. Wild gorillas may survive to age 35, and wild chimps live about 50 years. Great apes in captivity have been known to survive into their late fifties. The life span of gibbons is considerably shorter ...
- 3478: Fusion 2
- ... Second, the products of a fusion reaction are not radioactive; hence, no long-term radioactive wastes would be generated. Neutron bombardment would activate the walls of the containment vessel, but such activated material is shorter-lived and less toxic than the waste products of a fission reactor. Moreover, even this activation problem may be eliminated, either by the development of advanced, low-activation materials, such as vanadium-based materials, or by ...
- 3479: Fire 2
- ... which these events are now occurring. In the last fifteen years, we have experienced five of the seven worst forest fire years in recorded Canadian history. And, not surprisingly, in that same period we have lived through eight of the warmest years on record (UNEP, [On-line], 1998). Canadians can continue to expect more fires, more often and earlier in the season. While there are fluctuations in forest fire activity from ...
- 3480: Exploring The Mind
- ... sure that my way of thinking has changed. I am also sure that time, my surroundings throughout my life, and a desire to care for others has effected this change. From observing others who have lived longer than myself, I am sure I will continue to change just as most humans do. So I suppose it is natural for the mind to evolve, but without our worlds society would it still ...
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