Did you know that Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome was named after two physicians that described the aspects of the condition in the early 1900s‚ a Germany ophthalmologist named Eugen Von Hippel and a Swedish pathologist named Arvid Lindau. The Von Hippel Lindau is a disease that’s an inherited disorder characterized by the abnormal growth of both benign and cancerous tumors on the cerebellum‚ spinal cord‚ brain stem‚ or nerve root. The major cause for the Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome is mutations in the
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I happened upon a book by Marius von Senden called Space and Sight. When Western surgeons discovered the necessary steps to safely operate on cataracts‚ they travelled across Europe and America operating by the dozens. Von Senden collected accounts of such cases. The vast majority of patients had no sense of space whatsoever. A patient "had no idea of depth‚ confusing it with roundness" (Senden). Prior to operation‚ the patient would be given a cube and a sphere‚ and through whatever means necessary
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Von Restorff and Serial Position Effect On Recalling Memory Research Question: How does highlighting the middle word in a list of 20 words affect the rate of recalling the first and last five words (serial Position effect)? Candidate Name: Sayuj Saha Session: May 2015 Name of Supervisor: Ms. Sukanya Mazumder Total word count: 2104 Abstract This Study tested the Von Restorff’s and Serial Position Effect on memory recall with 30 participants‚ 22 males and the rest were females‚ chosen by
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In Kapitel 3 werden die erworbenen Informationen in Bezug zum Text gebracht. Hierdurch soll der geschichtliche Hintergrund aufgedeckt oder auch revidiert werden. Gleichzeitig wird die Kurzgeschichte interpretiert‚ da dies für das letzte Kapitel noch von Bedeutung sein wird. Darin wird nämlich die Kritik Kate Chopins erläutert. Louisiana zur Zeit der Sklaverei Im Folgenden wird ein kurzer Abriss der Geschichte Louisianas bzw. der U.S.A. gegeben. Was war zur Zeit der Sklaverei los? Was hielten
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Justus Freiherr von Liebig was born in darmstadt into the middle class family of johann georg liebig‚ and maria caroline möser. In his early years as a child her was fascinated with chemistry. At age 13 a catastrophe hit majority of food crops in the northern hemisphere were destroyed by a volcanic winter. (reduction of global temperatures due to volcanic ash and droplets of sulfuric acid obscuring the sun and raising the earth’s albedo increasing the reflection of solar radiation) germany was among
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Do you like having GPS‚ Weather Reports‚ and TV Broadcasts? Well you can thank the Nazi’s for that and the tireless efforts of Werner Von Braun. The analysis of the piece of literature I chose “Von Braun: Dreamer of Space‚ Engineer of War” by Michael J. Neufeld is quite difficult because there is a lot of controversy surrounding Von Braun and his contribution to the United States of America becoming the first country to put a man on the moon. There is‚ perhaps‚ no one in the history of spaceflight
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“Those without the capital get the punishment‚” as quoted from the article the Death of the Death Penalty by David Von Drehle. Highlighting the varying topics of the death penalty with various quotes and graphic illustrations to proclaim his visual of why the capital punishment era is ending. Drehle provided his opinion of the death penalty‚ “…as a form of punishment for those who commit capital murder‚ and I now believe that it should be abolished.” Hence‚ I can agree with Drehle’s proclamation
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The play “Faust” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe contains a number of aspects that institute a sense of duality is respect to what is good‚ and what is evil. With that in mind‚ the character Faust is frequently criticized as to whether his true nature is that of a hero‚ or that of a villain. However‚ over the course of his journey‚ it appears that he has the qualities of each. Faust’s dissatisfaction with life—and his skeptical view on the concept of God—bring into question whether he is a man of morality
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is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.” The United States issued an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein: leave Kuwait by 15 January1991 or face a full attack by the multinational force. This is what war is about. Carl von Clausewitz writings on the theory of war‚ especially his developed paradoxical trinity‚ center of gravity (COG)‚ and concept of friction shaped military leaders in their preparation‚ planning and conduct of warfare in operation Desert Storm in 1991. This US-led coalition
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plateau was the German historian Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886). Ranke’s contribution were threefold: (1) he played a leading role in establishing history as a respected discipline in the universities‚ (2) he firmly established the notion that all sound history must be based on primary sources and a rigorous methodology‚ and (3) he reflected the broader nineteenth-century attempt to define the concept of “historical-mindedness”. This essay seeks to analyse Leopold von Ranke’s contribution to the study of
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