great rivers‚ the Tigris and Euphrates in Iraq‚ and the Nile in Egypt. People had settled in Mesopotamia by 7000 B.C. and the First Dynasty of Egyptian rulers was founded before 3000 B.C.‚ implying a much earlier period of occupation in the Nile River valley and delta. To protect themselves and channel the forces of nature‚ people living near the rivers created new technologies and forms of political and social organization. The geographical similarities were that both civilizations resided on banks of
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“Uncanny valley” refers to the range where human beings are comfortable with human-like objects. If an object is too similar to us without exactly replicating our behavior‚ the object falls into called uncanny valley and rather than expressing empathy‚ we are repulsed when looking at the object. This theory was first applied to the robotics industry‚ but has since been applied to many other fields. Various studies have proven that when objects‚ such as robots‚ fall into uncanny valley‚ we are disgusted
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Valley Forge: Would I Have Quit? A well known site from American Revolution is Valley Forge‚ the area George Washington and his troops set up camp from the Winter of 1777-1778.The conditions were obviously rough and the camp itself was built in great haste as Washington and his men retreated south. The question is‚ how rough was it‚ and‚ would I have stayed? The answer to that question is no‚ and here are the reasons why. The first and foremost reason I would not have stayed at Valley Forge is
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Settling the Rio Grande Valley The Rio Grande Valley consists of the southern most part of Texas‚ along the Texas/Mexico border. The population growth in this area was very slow until the 1900’s‚ when it began to skyrocket. From 1920 to 1930‚ the population in the Valley more than doubled. One of the main factors for this population increase was the railroad construction. The St. Louis‚ Brownsville‚ and Mexico railroads all were completed in 1904. This furthered the expansion of the already
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fulfillment of the requirement needed in NURSING INFORMATICS Lecture ________________________________ REACTION PAPER (Pirates of Silicon Valley) Submitted by: DONATO‚ Marklin Kay A. BSN III- A Schedule: 5-6 pm MTW Submitted to: Mr. John Kelvyn Lerma NI Instructor September 2010 Pirates of Silicon Valley is a 1999 film based on the book Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine. It is a made-for-television docudrama written and directed
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Miserable is the best way to describe my life at Valley Forge. I am wretchedly unhappy and uncomfortable. George Washington had retreated from New York City due to losing to the British. Many soldiers deserted the Continental army during this time. Even worse events‚ Congress did not even trust George Washington himself! They thought he was leading a grand retreat! This is when Washington decided to build a winter camp at Valley Forge where conditions are not good. Interestingly enough‚ some young
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Gaussian Mixture Models∗ Douglas Reynolds MIT Lincoln Laboratory‚ 244 Wood St.‚ Lexington‚ MA 02140‚ USA dar@ll.mit.edu Synonyms GMM; Mixture model; Gaussian mixture density Definition A Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) is a parametric probability density function represented as a weighted sum of Gaussian component densities. GMMs are commonly used as a parametric model of the probability distribution of continuous measurements or features in a biometric system‚ such as vocal-tract related
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| Distillation is defined as: `Distillation is based on the fact that the vapor of a boiling mixture will be richer in the components that have lower boiling points.Therefore‚ when this vapor is cooled and condensed‚ the condensate will contain more volatile components. At the same time‚ the original mixture will contain more of the less volatile material. Distillation columns are designed to achieve this separation efficiently.Although many people have a fair idea what “distillation” means‚ the
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Lake Valley every year. I care about this issue for a couple reasons. The first reason is that I have a lot of family here in Utah‚ and every winter I see how it affects them. Every winter a few of my family members get sick‚ and I am pretty sure it is caused by all the smog. The second reason is that I enjoy to go outside in the winter‚ but I don’t like to breath in all the smog. I have reason to believe that pollution is one of the top reasons for the health problems in Salt Lake Valley. The
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others‚ they have a high standard living. The first settlers in the Valley of Mexico came thousands of years ago. In 1325‚ a group now known as the Aztecs settled on an island in Lake Texcoco. They then created a city called Tenochtitlán. Since the Aztecs were great warriors‚ they soon created an empire. The city grew fast as well. When the Spanish arrived in 1519‚ Tenochtitlán was a huge city. Over 200‚000 people lived in the Valley of Mexico. In 1521‚ the Spanish conquered the Aztec Empire. Small
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