In the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave‚ mortality was related to living alone in that living along doubled a person’s chance of not surviving the heat wave. On the other had‚ and form of social connection lessened the chance of dying. Some of the main reasons that this relationship exists are because most of the people living along were older people and increasingly people with poor mobility were living alone. Living alone as an aging person was thought to be the ideal way for them to live because it gave
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John Salmons Sanford 9th Grade Literature and Composition May 25‚ 2012 Miami Heat Basketball Why I Chose My Topic Ever since I was young I’ve always loved basketball. It started when I was young and I used to always watch my older brothers play in the driveway. I always wished I could play with them but they always said I was too young. Nevertheless‚ I was still persistent and practiced my game everyday. All the time I was looking up to my favorite player Lebron James. I would watch his
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photosynthesis. When photosynthesis is functioning as it should‚ in its fullest capacity‚ all organisms benefit from it in some way. Furthermore‚ scientists aim to better understand the photosynthetic process to help enhance the efficiency and quality of life on Earth. By fully understanding the function of photosynthesis‚ some environmental adjustments can then be made to refine the photosynthetic process. In this lab specifically (Lab No. 7)‚ we isolated specific color wavelengths and recorded the rate of
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margin approach in which manufacturing overhead is treated as a period expense? Why or why not? 2. Calculate the practical capacity and the capacity cost rates for each of Sippican’s resources: production and setup employees‚ machines‚ receiving and production control employees‚ shipping and packaging employees‚ and engineers. 3. Use these capacity cost rates and the production data in Exhibits 3 and 4 to calculate revised costs and profits for Sippican’s three product lines
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Aims The purpose of the two experiments was to determine the fundamental effects that temperature has on the growth and survival of bacteria. During the first experiment five different bacterial broth cultures of Escherichia coli‚ Pseudomonas fluorescens‚ Enterococcus faecalis‚ Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus stearothermophilus were individually incubated at temperatures of 5‚ 25‚ 37‚ 45 and 55°C for one week in an aim to distinguish the effect temperature has on growth and survival of the five different
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Calorimetry To determine the specific heat of a metal and its approximate atomic mass. To determine the heat of neutralization for a strong acid-strong base reaction. To determine the quantity and direction of heat flow for the dissolution of salt. Post Lab Questions and Answers: 1. In parts A and B in‚ the calorimeter‚ although a good insulator‚ absorbs some heat when the system is above room temperature. Is the reported value for the specific heat of the metal too high or too low? Explain
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The lab in which we conducted last Tuesday was an analysis of a hydrate and what happens to it when it is heated. A hydrate is a crystalline compound which water molecules are chemically bound to it. In the lab‚ we were to analyze the difference in grams of the hydrate and the anhydrate. An anhydrate is the crystalline compound without the water molecules bound to it. During our lab‚ we were to heat up the crucible‚ the crucible with hydrate‚ and the crucible with an anhydrous and write down each
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Moment of Inertia and Rotational Motion Garret Hebert PHY 2311 Tues 1:00 garret.hebert@hindscc.edu Abstract: During this lab we will study what rotational Inertia is and how different shapes of masses and different masses behave inertially when compared to each other. We will specifically study the differences of inertia between a disk and a ring. We will use increasing forces to induce angular acceleration of both a disk and a ring of a certain mass. We will then then measure the differences
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the mass of the original hydrate and then multiplied by 100%. Data Presentation & Analysis Table 1: The data was collected from the lab experiment. Sample calculations are shown. Mass of beaker with sample 30.765g Mass of empty beaker 30.263g Mass of sample .502g Mass of beaker with sample after 1st heat 30.661g Mass of beaker with sample after 2nd heat 30.657g Heating mass difference .004g Mass of anhydrate .394g Mass of H2O .108g Molar mass of CuCl2 135.0g/mol Molar mass of
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Heat Exchanger Rupture and Ammonia Release The CSB Case Study on the incident‚ examines the events leading up to the rupture of the heat exchanger and the ammonia release‚ and the corresponding emergency response to the event. It is clear that there were many failures and opportunities to correct and prevent this incident from occurring. As they performed their investigation‚ they were able to identify several direct‚ contributing‚ and root causes‚ although they don’t specifically designate
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