Napier Grass Scientific name: Pennisetum purpureum Family: Poaceae Origin: Tropical grasslands of Africa Botanical description: A robust perennial with a vigorous root system‚ sometimes stoloniferous with a creeping rhizome. Culms usually 180-360 cm high‚ branched upwards. Leaf-sheaths glabrous or with tubercle-based hairs; leaf-blades 20-40 mm wide‚ margins thickened and shiny. Inflorescence a bristly false spike up to 30 cm long‚ dense‚ usually yellow-brown in colour‚ more rarely purplish (Chippendall
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John Napier John Napier was a well known Scottish mathematician‚ born 1550 as Scottish nobility in the Merchiston area of Edinburgh‚ Scotland. Archibald‚ his father‚ was only 16 when he was born. At the late age of 13 he took his first step into academics‚ enrolling in St. Salvator’s College‚ University of St Andrews in 1563‚ the same year of his mother’s death. He left the school without graduating‚ supposedly to continue his studies elsewhere in Europe (suspected to be Paris‚ Italy‚ or Germany)
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In his story‚ Bradbury uses the changing symbolism of the bones to represent the difficulty of change for Mr. Bittering. Mr. Bittering was reluctant to stay on Mars and wasn’t prepared to deal with the change that moving would bring. Mr. Bittering started to notice subtle differences in his wife‚ children‚ and food‚ especially when he started to “[feel] his bones shifting and shaping‚ melting like gold (6)”. His bones are a structure that Mr. Bittering relies on to protect and hold him‚ but they
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SKELETAL SYSTEM: BONES AND JOINTS Functions of the Skeletal System ♦Skeletal System Without it‚ there would be no rigid framework to support the soft tissues of the body and no system of joints and levers to allow the body to move Consists of bones‚ connective tissues that includes cartilage‚ tendons and ligaments Term skeleton is derived from a Greek word meaning dried Consists of dynamic‚ living tissues that are able to grow‚ detect pain stimuli‚ adapt to stress‚ and undergo repair after
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By: Jason K. I enjoy reading Fae Myenne Ng ’s Bone. I find her novel easy to read and understand. Although she included some phrases the Chinese use‚ I find no difficulty in understanding them‚ as I ’m Chinese myself. The novel Bone is written in a circular narrative form‚ in which the story doesn ’t follow the linear format where the suspense slowly builds up and finally reaches a climax stage. Rather the story ’s time sequence is thrown back and forth. I find this format of writing brings greater
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[flat bones] & endochondral ossification [long bones].The essential between them is the presence or absence of cartilaginous phase.Intramembranous ossification occurs when mesenchymal precursor cells proliferate & subsequently differentiate directly into osteoblasts w/c mineralize an immature bone tissue called woven bone‚characterize by irregular bundles of randomly oriented collagen fibers & an abundance of partially calcified immature new bone called asteoid.At later stages this woven bone is progressively
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The story Bone written by “Fae Myenne Ng” focuses on the struggle Leila and her family go through in San Francisco. Leila the narrator tells her family’s struggles in this country after they immigrated from china. Mah her mother and Leon her stepfather are hardworking immigrants who have battle to make it through life. I relate to her story in so many ways‚ my mother is also a very hardworking immigrant who has done everything to give my brothers and me a better future. Mah works at sweatshop
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12/8/12 446-01 Mrs.Corrado Case Study – Packet 4 1. What is meant by a “complete‚ comminuted‚ intertrochanteric fracture of the right hip? a. A complete fracture is when the entire bone impacted is fractured. A comminuted fracture is when the bone breaks shatters into many pieces. Intertrochanteric refers to the top part of the femur. So‚ a complete‚ comminuted intertrochanteric fracture is the upper most part of the femur is completely shattered. A comminuted
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MY SISTER’S BONES is a mind blowing suspense novel that you will only be able to put down for bathroom and subsistence breaks. Additionally‚ this is only Nuala Ellwood’s first book so waiting to see what she will come up with next to this reader feels like torture. The plot is astoundingly penned including how the book itself is put together. The story flips back and forth between two different situations that the main character Kate is entangled in than about three-fourths of the way through the
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LOGARITHMS John Napier is a Scottish mathematician who lived from 1550 to 1617. He worked more than twenty years to improve his theory and tables of what he called logarithms. Napier called the theory logarithms‚ because he thought of them as “reckoning numbers”‚ namely to calculate an amount(Caulfield 2010). “The word he derived from two Greek roots: logos meaning word‚ or study‚ or reasoning‚ or in Napier’s use “reckoning” and aritmos meaning “number”.”[1] Napier lived during an age of great
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