Crumple zones are one of the greatest innovations made with cars to protect the passengers in the event of an auto accident. Crumple zones cause impulse‚ or the change in momentum when an object acts on by a force for a certain amount of time. Though first‚ we need to know why crumple zones were made. An average of almost 1.3 million people die from nearly 5.5 million car accidents around the world annually. Along with this 20-50 million people are either injured or disabled in the wrecks. This
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Sandra Alexander The Hot Zone: A Scary Truth Richard Preston weaves a true tale about a chilling story of an Ebola virus (A disease-causing agent smaller than a bacterium‚ consisting of a shell made of proteins and membranes and a core containing DNA or RNA. A virus depends on living cells in order to replicate.) outbreak that occurs in a suburban Washington‚ D.C. laboratory in 1989. In this laboratory‚ monkeys being used in scientific experiments quickly sicken and die due to a filovirus
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What was the Zone System? Why was its development important? The Zone system is the adjustment of the exposure in a photograph to make the most of shadows and highlights of a photograph. The Zone System‚ which was developed by Ansel Adams‚ separates tones between white and black into eleven different zones‚ with middle gray being at the center; each of these zones corresponded to an f/stop. The manipulation of light is what Ansel Adam’s is best known for. The zone system was designed
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results were not expected. Morning fresh which costs the most was expected to have the largest zone of inhibition but this was not the case. Palmolive has the largest zone of inhibition having an 0.8 cm larger diameter then morning fresh had. It was expected that ultra would have the smallest zone of inhibition as it was the cheapest. The sponges results were also interesting as there was no clearly seen zone of inhibitions that were noticeable enough to be able to measure. Discussion The results
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Worldwide Proliferation of Gray Zones Annawadi is a perfect example that symbolizes what Boo considers to be the Zero Sum Game as the amount of economic prosperity that is occurring in India is offset by the many costs. Specifically in gray areas such as Annawadi‚ what it represents is how an area can effectively become a “gray area” where the economic prosperities of the country are not fully reflected equally nor in a way that benefit all. Rather‚ the example of Annawadi and its area shows how
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Response to Question 1 According to Mary Pratt‚ “contact zone” is a term “to refer to social spaces where cultures meet‚ clash‚ and grapple with each other‚ often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power‚ such as colonialism‚ slavery‚ or their aftermaths as they are lived out in many parts of the world today” (Pratt 487). In Pratt’s speech “Arts of the Contact Zone‚” she uses terms‚ such as autoethnography and transculturation‚ to help demonstrate the reasoning of her ideas. The main
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chemoreceptor trigger zone is situated on the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain within the area postrema (Bowen‚ R.‚ 1996). It consists of a blood-brain barrier that is able to detect chemical stimuli within the blood and the cerebrospinal fluid. The chemoreceptors which are situated within the chemoreceptor trigger zone are stimulated by many drugs and toxic substances; referred to as emetics (Sherwood‚ L.‚ 2013). When emetics cause a stimulation of the chemoreceptor trigger zone‚ impulses are
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McGraw-Hill Online Learning Center Test Answers 1. There was a dramatic increase in three of the following economic indicators during the mid 1920s. Which is the exception? Your response: rate of inflation Correct! Correct. See pages 809-10. 2. America’s economic boom in the 1920s resulted from: Your response: all of the above. Correct! Correct. See page 810. 3. Which of the following industries seemed least affected by the trend toward consolidation in the 1920s? Your
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Dead Zones in the Baltic Sea Franki M Abstract Dead zones‚ also known as hypoxic zones‚ are areas in the ocean where oxygen levels have been depleted or are depleting. Hypoxia could be due to natural reasoning‚ but more commonly it is a result of careless and uninformed inhabitants of the coast near that ocean. Farming‚ sewage‚ factories and fishing are all major causes of dead zones. If our oceans continue to lose oxygen‚ we will eventually no longer have marine animals/marine
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Indian Ocean Region The Indian Ocean is the world’s third largest ocean covering an area of over 28 million square miles. It is bounded by land masses on three sides. The exact boundaries of the Indian Ocean region has been argued but there is general agreement that it includes Cape Agulhas at the southernmost point of Africa‚ the Suez Canal‚ the entirety of the Persian Gulf‚ the Strait of Malacca‚ the Singapore Strait‚ and the west coast of Tasmania. The Indian Ocean region is comprised of
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