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    • Neurologist V.S. Ramachandran (from the in-class video) claims brain connections are “labile and dynamic.” Proves his point by using mirror boxes to help amputees relieve pain in their “phantom limbs.” (page 55) • Brain has two images‚ the original genetic image and an updated image that reacts to changes. (page 56) • Possible that neural pathways are made or reused to fill on holes in one’s self image. (page 56) • “Zombies” are our unconscious minds and are able to function independently. Claims

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    Dagger Scene(Macbeth)

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    sees a Phantom Dagger with which he is going to murder King Duncan. Just before his scene Macbeth had a brief conversation with Banquo on his way from the bed chamber of Duncan‚ a little after midnight he sent a servant to his wise Lady Macbeth to get a drink prepared by her and strike a bell when it is prepared. Just between the actual murder and the strike of the bell there is the Dagger Scene‚ when a phantom ‘Dagger’ shots up in front of Macbeth. Macbeth tries to clutch the phantom dagger but

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    Ghost in real life

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    In traditional belief and fiction‚ a ghost (sometimes known as a spectre (British English) or specter (American English)‚ phantom‚ apparition or spook) is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear‚ in visible form or other manifestation‚ to the living. Descriptions of the apparition of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes‚ to realistic‚ lifelike visions. The deliberate attempt to contact the spirit of a deceased person is

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    A Byronic hero can be conceptualized as an extreme variation of the Romantic hero archetype .However‚ they also bare some similarities with respect to their figure. The character type of the Byronic hero was first developed by Lord Byron a renowned English 19th century poet. He created this archetype because he grew tired of Traditional and Romantic heroic characters and his initial aim was to develop a character that would be more appealing to readers‚ that would be more psychologically realistic

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    Brooke Konstance Sociology 101 NHL LOCKOUT The 2012 NHL lockout began on September 15th‚ 2012 because of an ongoing labor dispute on the expiration of the NHL’s collective bargaining agreement. The lockout began less than a month earlier to the scheduled beginning of the 2012–13 NHL season. The owners confirmed a lockout of the members of the National Hockey League Players ’ Association after a new agreement could not be met before their deadline. The NHL 2012-13 is the 96th season. It was scheduled

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    Cited: Faust. (n.d.). Retrieved 10 8‚ 2012‚ from Wikipeadia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust Rice‚ A. (1995). Memnoch the Devil. Knopf. The Phantom of the Opera. (n.d.). Retrieved 10 8‚ 2012‚ from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera

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    heart alone‚ Nor feed with sighs a passing wind: What profit lies in barren faith‚ And vacant yearning‚ tho’ with might To scale the heaven’s highest height‚ Or dive below the wells of Death? What find I in the highest place‚ But mine own phantom chanting hymns? And on the depths of death there swims The reflex of a human face. I’ll rather take what fruit may be Of sorrow under human skies: ’Tis held that sorrow makes us wise‚ Whatever wisdom sleep with thee. In In Memoriam‚ Lord Alfred

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    Self Introduction

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    A MIM/Coaxial Stub-Line CRLH Zeroth-Order Series-Mode Resonator used as an RF Coil Element for 7-Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging Andreas Rennings1 ‚ Jan Taro Svejda1 ‚ Simon Otto2 ‚ Klaus Solbach2 ‚ and Daniel Erni1 General and Theoretical Electrical Engineering (ATE)‚ 2 High Frequency Engineering (HFT)‚ Faculty of Engineering‚ University of Duisburg-Essen‚ and 1 CENIDE – Center for Nanointegration Duisburg Essen‚ D-47048 Duisburg‚ Germany 1 Abstract—A novel MIM/coaxial-stub composite right/lefthanded

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    were processed for each set of in-water and in-air calculations. The radial dose function is related to the size of the phantom in which the source is located due to the different scatter conditions caused by a lack of backscattered photons at the border of the phantom. To assure “full scatter” conditions‚ we performed the Monte Carlo simulation of the source in water phantoms with radius of 100 cm. The results of these calculations are shown in Figure 2 and Tables 5 and 6 below. Because the geometry

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    Detective Conan Important Episode List For the sake of those who might want to get into or try to convince a friend to get into Detective Conan for the story but find the insanely high episode count and history of nearly 2 decades daunting‚ I’ve compiled a list of episodes that are actually important as well as listed the reasons I believe them to be important (so you can make your own judgements as you go as to whether you yourself really think you should have to watch them or not). There are tons

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