Biology Investigation Aim: to investigate the effects of light and gravity on the growth of sunflower seeds. Background Info: Tropism is directional movement in response to a directional stimulus eg light or gravity. Plants are not able to relocate if they happen to start growing where conditions are nor perfect but they can alter their growth towards more favorable conditions. Plants respond to light (phototropism) where the stems grow towards the light and the roots grow away from
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MUSTARD/RAPESEED INTRODUCTION India is one of the largest rapeseed‐mustard growing countries in the world‚ occupying the first position in Area and second position in Production after China. The world production of Rapeseed/Mustard has been increasing at a rapid rate in several countries largely in response to the continuing increase in demand for edible oils and its products. Brassica (rapeseed‐mustard) is the second most important edible oilseed crop in India after groundnut and accounts for nearly 30%
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products that had sales in excess of $6.3 billion in 2005 (c-548). It sold genetically modified (GM) canola seeds in Canada and GM soybean seeds in the United States. The company developed a patented process in Canada that “covered the gene and process for insertion…and cells derived from that process‚” and in the United States covered the entire plant. By using this patented process‚ seeds had an increased resistance to glyphosate (many generic herbicides contained this) and would survive being
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Goetz‚ the Clinical Coordinator for Radiation Therapy at CCBC‚ came to Eastern Technical High School to speak with the Allied Health students about the Radiation Therapy program and profession. Radiation Therapists (RT) use high power x-rays to treat tumors and keloids. Therapy only treats the site of disease contrary to chemotherapy‚ which goes directly into the bloodstream and kills cells all over the body. The oncologist writes a prescription for radiation based on the patient’s stage of cancer
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Purpose Using a calorimeter‚ the experiment aimed to determine the specific heat of two different metals‚ Lead and Zinc‚ in order to calculate their individual atomic weight. Theory The calorimeter consists of a metal outer cup‚ a removable metal inner cup‚ which is held in place by a rubber ring‚ and an insulating lid with a small opening for a thermometer. It is a closed system as the air between the inner cup and outer cup insulates the water and heated metal‚ so‚ ideally‚ all heat is contained
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Brachytherapy (also known as internal radiation therapy) is the use of radioactive ‘seeds’ to help destroy cancerous cells. It is commonly used as a treatment for cervical‚ prostate‚ breast and skin cancer. How long the treatment will take will depend on where the tumor is and how large it is. Brachytherapy works from the inside of the body by placing the radioactive ‘seeds’ into the body next to the tumor. About 4/10 people with cancer have some type of radiation therapy as their treatment. History
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The advantages of rapid prototyping are hard to ignore. With the change of ECU development trends and faster time to market cycles‚ rapid prototyping is necessary. Expensive supplier coding‚ experts and hardware can be minimized based on the introduction of software-centric rapid prototyping. It offers quick changes‚ brings the ability for more areas of expertise to participate in idea generation and allows for creative experimentation. It is important to understand the differences between
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chemical symbol identifies the element it is redundant to include the atomic number‚ so it is rarely used. Carbon-14‚ therefore‚ would be written as 14C or C-l4. Unit of Radiation Energy The electron volt (eV) is an extremely small unit and is equal to only 1.6 X 10-12 ergs. It is only used in radiation safety to express radiation energy. The electron volt is such a small unit that it is usually written as mega- or kilo- electron volts which is a million electron volts (MeV) or a thousand electron
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A FRAMEWORK FOR THE ADOPTION OF RAPID PROTOTYPING FOR SMEs: FROM STRATEGIC TO OPERATIONAL Rapidly changing global markets‚ unprecedented increase in product flexibility requirements and shorter product life cycles require more efficient technologies that can help reduce the time to market‚ which is considered to be a crucial factor to survive in today’s highly volatile market conditions. Rapid prototyping technology (RPT) has the potential to make remarkable reductions in the product development
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Influence of Acidic Solutions on Lettuce Seed Germination Introduction In the environment‚ plants are critically affected by the composition of soil‚ as they acquire all nutrients from it. A nutrient must be soluble and must remain soluble long enough in order to travel into the roots of the plant (Kissel and Miller‚ 2008). Soil PH directly affects the life and growth of a plant‚ since it affects the availability of the nutrients needed for plant life. Most nutrients are in their most available
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