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    forced laborers. They had to do many construction projects such as building roads‚ working in gravel pits‚ and draining marshes. The prisoners were also used for medical experiments. Some of these experiments were high-altitude experiments using a decompression chamber‚ malaria and tuberculosis experiments‚ hypothermia experiments‚ and experiments testing new medications. Hundreds of these prisoners died during the experiments or were disabled afterward. Bergen-Belsen was another concentration camp.

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    Research Paper In Basic Swimming History of Swimming The history of swimming goes way back to that of prehistoric times. Books written from 2000 to 1500 BC including the Bible have references to swimming. It was mostly used in these times as a means of cleansing. Any form of competitive swimming wasn’t formed until the 1800’s in Europe. It was included in the first Olympics in 1896 in Athens‚ Greece. It was noted that Ancient Egypt had cave drawings of humans swimming in the nearby sea. They

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    the current trend of society. Their individual philosophies and concepts suggest a fundamental problem: if civilization is so diseased‚ can we overcome this state of society and the sickness that plagues the minds of the masses in order to advance? Gandhi and Nietzsche attain to answer the same proposition of sickness within civilization‚ and although the topic of unrest among both may be dissimilar‚ they have parallel means of finding a cure to such an illness as the one that plagues society. Nietzsche’s

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    Technological change is a combination of more and of better technology. A recent study in the journal Science shows that the peak of the rate of change of the world’s capacity to compute information was in the year 1998‚ when the world’s technological capacity to compute information on general-purpose computers grew at 88% per year.[68] [edit] Transistor count versus computing performance The exponential processor transistor growth predicted by Moore does not always translate into exponentially

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    Spinal Cord InjuriesArticle Last Updated: Aug 8‚ 2006 BackgroundPatients with spinal cord injury (SCI) usually have permanent and often devastating neurologic deficits and disability. According to the National Institutes of Health‚ "among neurological disorders‚ the cost to society of automotive SCI is exceeded only by the cost of mental retardation."The goals for the emergency physician are to establish the diagnosis and initiate treatment to prevent further neurologic injury from either pathologic

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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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    International Job Satisfaction Kaplan University International Job Satisfaction Being able to determine what satisfies employees from different cultures depends on a couple different factors. Motivation is a key element in assuring that employees are satisfied with their jobs. There are different factors that determine motivation and those are intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Intrinsic factors can be described as advancement opportunities‚ recognition‚ responsibility‚ and achievements related

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    Mattresses - mattress pads - Test In 2014. Mattress’s pressure relieving properties can be the difference between a good night and a bad night’s sleep. Two mattresses stand out in the GP’s test. But all mattress pads do well after a period of use. When you invest in a new bed it is fine to buy a mattress separately‚ to influence what characteristics they want in terms of‚ for example‚ load-distribution capabilities. On the GP’s mission has Testfakta have tested one of the most common mattress

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    the source region‚ the magma undergoes a complex evolutionary process before it manifests itself on the surface as igneous rocks. The density contrast with the surrounding rocks makes the magma buoyant and it forces its way upward. Cooling and decompression accompanying this ascent cause crystallization as well as volatile exsolution from the magma. A host of processes such as crystal fractionation‚ liquid immiscibility‚ magma mixing and country rock assimilation - together referred to as magmatic

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    production ceases. In pigs‚ they are castrated‚ get hunks of flesh cut from their ears‚ the tips of their teeth cut off with wire-cutters‚ and their tails chopped. This is all without sedatives. On fish‚ they are dragged from ocean depths and undergo decompression‚ which ruptures their

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