A Brief History of Telescopes 1608 AD – Hans Lippershey‚ German-born Dutch lens maker‚ applied for a patent for his refracting telescope (using 2 lenses)‚ he intended them for use in the military. 1609-1610 – Galileo Galilei built his own refractor telescopes to observe the sky‚ and discovered Saturn’s rings‚ Jupiter’s moons‚ and along with many other significant discoveries. 1655 – Christian Huygens‚ a Dutch physicist and astronomer developed powerful lenses for refractor telescopes with his
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* * Categorical Perception What is it? Continuum- something that varies in a particular dimension‚ results in different perceptions of color The perception of a continuum in terms of categories Another way to compensate for the lack of invariance in speech What is it good for? Stable perception of a variable signal Good discrimination between categories Not hindered by variation within a category We’ll investigate with experiments: Is it learned? Innate? Is it unique to speech? Is
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The "Comfort Women" Controversy." Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 5.1 (1997): 73-108. Print. Kokopeli‚ Bruce‚ and George Lakey Leatherman‚ Janie. Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict. Cambridge: Polity‚ 2011. Print. MacKinnon‚ Catharine A Schmidt‚ David A. Ianfu‚ the Comfort Women of the Japanese Imperial Army of the Pacific War: Broken Silence. Lewiston‚ NY: Edwin Mellen‚ 2000. Print. Stetz‚ Margaret D.‚ and Bonnie B. C. Oh. Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II. Armonk‚ NY: M.E.
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updated report Tuesday on temperatures around the globe in 2013. The comparison shows how Earth continues to experience temperatures warmer than those measured several decades ago. " 2013 adds to the evidence for ongoing climate change. " - Dr. Gavin Schmidt‚ NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies The average temperature in 2013 was 58.3 degrees Fahrenheit (14.6 Celsius)‚ which is 1.1 F (0.6 C) warmer than the mid-20th century baseline. The average global temperature has risen about 1.4 degrees F (0
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The Worlds Greatest Its America’s favorite game for a reason‚ and as everybody who’s ever played in the pro’s will tell you‚ you can love the game‚ but it won’t always love you back. Many people in history have tried to make a name in the baseball world and many have failed. Few have succeeded. The list goes on and on of those who have been good‚ but there’s a short list of those who have been great. And now they are being put together on one team‚ to play an imaginary game. From pitcher to outfield
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Hodgson‚ James Day‚ Yoshihiro Sano and John L. Graham‚ Doing Business with the New Japan‚ 2000‚ Boston‚ Rowman & Littlefield Publishers‚ Inc. March‚ Robert M.‚ Working For A Japanese Company‚ 1992‚ Otowa‚ Kodansha International‚ Ltd. Schmidt‚ Warren H. and Robert Tannenbaum‚ 2000‚ "Management of Differences‚" Harvard Business Review on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution‚ Boston‚ Harvard Business School Press‚ Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation‚ 1-26. Gerick‚ Patricia‚ On Track with the Japanese
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From Data‚ Information and Knowledge to Wisdom The data-information-knowledge-wisdom (DIKW) continuum is a concept of the transformation of data into wisdom through cognitive processes. DIKW was initially used to illustrate principles of information management for the designing of information systems (Davenport & Pursak‚ 1989)(Saltworks‚ 2009). DIKW models utilized by nursing such as the model by Englebart & Nelson (2002)‚ incorporate principles of increasing complexity due to increasing
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The nursing metaparadigm is a group of statements that identifies phenomena and incorporates philosophical assumptions that guide the development of nursing theory (Fawcett‚ 1984). Nursing scholars have historically agreed that the central concepts of the nursing metaparadigm include person‚ health‚ environment and nursing. Recently‚ the inclusion of a fifth concept‚ social justice‚ has been discussed in the literature as part of the metaparadigm. This paper will outline the meaning of these five
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05 Dec. 2012. <http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/racial-profiling-definition>. "Download Resources." American Civil Liberties Union. ACLU‚ 2004. Web. 05 Dec. 2012. <http://www.aclufl.org/take_action/download_resources/index.cfm>. Schmidt‚ Michael‚ and Eric Lichtblau. "Racial Profiling Rife at Airport‚ U.S. Officers Say." The New York Times. The New York Times‚ 11 Aug. 2012. Web. 05 Dec. 2012.
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First used by Israel Zangwill in a 1908 play‚ the term “Melting Pot” considers the American Dream‚ the incorporation and Americanization of immigrants in the American society. The melting pot derives from a process called assimilation‚ which consists of adoption of a host country’s cultures. This may imply sometimes the abandoning of some aspects of the ethnic culture of an individual (Zanca). The melting pot is an idea of “individuals of all nations melted into a new race of men‚” as J. Hector St
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