Concussions and Developing Brains Mild traumatic brain injuries (TBI)‚ otherwise known as concussions‚ occur in people from infants to senior citizens. A concussion occurs when a person’s head suffers a sudden impacting force‚ usually a blow to the head‚ and the brain gains momentum in the free space between it and the skull‚ and slams into the skull. Concussions are characterized by a sudden loss of brain function‚ and other emotional‚ intellectual‚ and behavioral changes. In today’s youth football
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Apollo 13 took flight to the moon. Fred Haise‚ Jack Swigert‚ and Jim Lovell were the three men who had the privilege to be the three astronauts that would man this flight to the moon. Days before the mission‚ the original main pilot‚ Ken Mattingly was exposed to the measles and was believed to have fallen ill‚ so back up pilot Jim Lovell was called in to replace him. Now that the crew had been assembled it was time for launch. Before the three men had taken on the challenge of Apollo 13 they each
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M2 Analyse your contribution to the selection process in a given situation In my interview I have had 1 candidate‚ to make sure that everything was followed right and I have not missed any questions I made sure that protocol was prepared. I have included the ten questions I wanted to ask the interviewee. I have also prepared the list of the documents they meant to prepare to be successful. As for an interview everything is meant to stay confidential. I have made sure that none of the personal
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The actual launch of the Apollo 13 was on April 11‚ 1970. Two days into the mission it looked like the smoothest flight that the Apollo program had ever seen. "The spacecraft is in real good shape as far as we are concerned. We’re bored to tears down here." said Joe Kerwin of mission control (3). At 55 hours the crew held a TV broadcast for 49 minutes where they showed off their living conditions and how they worked in weightless situations. Nine minutes after the broadcast mission control instructed
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As Teachers it is imperative that we motivate our students before every lesson. We can think of so many ways to get them hooked into the lesson. There can be games. There can be rewards or prizes for good performance and behavior‚ or negative motivation such as punishments‚ such as facing-the-wall and deductions from scores. However‚ as the kids age‚ these motivations are no longer working. They develop their own set of motivating factors. Usually‚ because of the many distractions — like social
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Apollo 13 and Leadership On April 10th James “Jim” Lovell‚ John L. Swigert‚ and Fred W. Haise embarked on one of the most historic missions in NASA history. Three days later on April 13th‚ while performing a routine stir on the O2 tanks‚ the Apollo 13 mission suffered a terrible electrical malfunction and was forced to make an emergency return mission. The movie has forever contributed two phrases to our everyday cultural vocabulary‚ “Houston we have a problem”‚ communicated by Jim Lovell‚ and “Failure
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Name: ___________________________ Chapter 13 Quiz True/False Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false. __T__ 1. DNS is used to resolve host names to IP addresses and find services. __T__ 2. DNS is required if you want resources such as Web servers available on the Internet. __T__ 3. The most common task a DNS server performs is resolving a host name to an IP address. This is called a forward lookup. __T__ 4. A reverse lookup allows you to specify an IP address and
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globalisation on developing economies (20) Globalisation is about the processes that have resulted in ever closer links between the world’s economies. Expressed in a more simple way this means developing economies developing closer links through things like trade‚ investment‚ production and then in more recent times‚ migration of people and transfer of technology. In recent years the speed that globalisation is growing at has increased massively and the impact is seen most greatly on developing economies
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nature. The tsunami in Sumatra Indonesia is a prime example. Not only was it catastrophic for the local area the laws of physics saw this tsunami travel across the Indian Ocean killing over 300‚000 in Southeast Asia‚ and traveling through more than 30 other countries resulting in more than 500 deaths. This was the law of physics in action. But as much proof as there is that physics has played an important role in
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them with an indifference map. Draw an indifference map with three indifference curves. b)There are a few standard assumptions about what an indifference map can and cannot look like. Which are these assumptions‚ and what reasoning lie behind them? 3. a)What is the marginal rate of substitution‚ MRS? State the definition and explain‚ in words‚ what it means. b)MRS will have an influence on the shape of the indifference curve. What influence? 4. a)Often we assume that consumers have diminishing
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