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    The common cause of motion sickness is the waves which cause the boat to rock. Contributing factors to motion sickness may be alcohol and/or the confidence people have in themselves‚ which leads to them not taking medication to help prevent motion sickness. Motion sickness can cause somewhat damage to people. To their body‚ motion sickness can cause them to vomit or become dizzy‚ to their mind‚ it may traumatize them making them not

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    expansion was not affected by its surroundings. . The new list of ingredients had the public excited to use the revolutionary device. Fahrenheit’s thermometers could also be used at higher altitudes than their alcoholic counter-parts and still be accurate (“Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit Biography”). This was because the altitude did not affect the expansion of mercury as much as it affected the expansion of the alcoholic mixture. Alongside his revolutionary inventions‚ Daniel also created his own temperature

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    US AIRWAYS FLIGHT 1456 (A320-214) | MID TERM ASSIGNMENT | | SUBMITTED TO: SIR IMRANSUBMITTED BY: SYED MUNEEB AHMEDROLL NO: BAM 10218CLASS: 8th B 4/17/2013 | | | | | US AIRWAYS FLIGHT 1456 (A320-214) US Airways Flight 1456 was US Airways scheduled domestic commercial passenger flight from LaGuardia

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    the Nazis considered inferior” (“Nazi Medical Experiments” 1). There were three categories of experiments. The first category included facilitating the survival of military personnel. Physicians conducted high-altitude experiments using a low-pressure chamber‚ to determine the topmost altitude from which crews of damaged aircraft could parachute to safety. Scientists there carried out so-called freezing experiments using prisoners to find an effective treatment for hypothermia (“Nazi Medical Experiments”

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    you go up to high altitudes and you will need more oxygen. You also have to go past the death zone. The death zone the part of the climb above 26‚247. You can not survive there for more than 48 hours because there is barely any oxygen and there is very extreme temperatures. By the time you come down you may have already ran out of oxygen or you could have been really low. You might be very tired‚ and if the weather doesn’t cooperate you would be in serious trouble. The thin altitudes could make it hard

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    In the famous movie Remember the Titans‚ the captain of the T.C. Williams football team stated‚ "attitude reflects altitude". When your attitude is positive you can fly higher than the sky‚ but if your attitude is negative then you can fall deep into the ocean. It has been said that a positive attitude is the key to success in life‚ and I just so happen to agree. Positivity can make you more motivated. When you are positive‚ others respect you and want to help you succeed. Also‚ with a positive attitude

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    NUCLEAR: A HARMFUL SOURCE OF ENERGY TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter I Introduction………………………………………………………..3 Thesis Statement…………………………………………………3 Specific questions………………………………………………...4 Significance of Study……………………………………………..4 Chapter II Theoretical Framework………………………………………......5 Chapter III Conclusion…………………………………………………………62 Recommendation…………………………………………………62 Bibliography……………………………………………………….63 Operational Definition…………………………………………….65 CHAPTER I

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    development of the bombsight helped to make them a strategic weapon. Bombsight technology allowed for more accurate bombing runs and precision targeting of military and industrial locations. By factoring in altitude‚ air speed‚ and ground speed‚ World War II bombsights allowed bombers to fly at higher altitudes during their bombing missions which provided safety to the bombers and their crews from anti-aircraft guns and defending fighter aircraft. Radar Radar technology works by transmitting strong‚

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    appeared that night. “Based on satellite information‚ the Air France flight had little chance of going around the storms given that they stretched for over 400 miles and were developing along the flight path. The airplane was flying at cruising altitude of 35‚000 feet. With the updrafts pushing the storms up to 50‚000 feet‚ the plane had to fly through the storms and not over them” (www.startribune.com). In this case‚ getting through severe turbulence where there are 216 passengers and twelve crew

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    the major causes of death is HACE and HAPE‚these disorders are more dangerous than and more likely than being crushed or blasted by any avalanches.“Now climbers are also routinely employ taking special steroids to prevent high altitude cerebral edema (HACE) and high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE)‚which are potentially fatal disorders”‚(Source 1).This solves one of the major causes of death in Mount Everest.If the advances of methods and technology advance more the death ratio will be much more better

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