What is Ebola? 1. Simply‚ the Ebola virus is an aggressive pathogen that causes a highly lethal fever syndrome in humans and nonhuman primates. Ebola was discovered in 1976‚ originally. Five Ebola species have been identified as time has progressed. Ebola was named for a small river near Maridi‚ Sudan. Since the emergence of filo viruses in 1967‚ there have been over 1000 cases of Ebola or Marburg‚ with more than 50% of the patients dying within days on the onset of acute symptoms. It is considered
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What is drawing? According to dictionary‚ Drawing is a form of visual expression and is one of the major forms within the visual arts. There are a number of subcategories of drawing such as cartoons‚ monochromatic‚ color pencil drawing‚ and other types of drawings. More interesting fact about drawing through reading this book was that it did not come actually part of term art. Drawing was exist for the long time of the period and used as communication‚ but as times go by‚ all the people founded old
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Star UML What is StarUML ?? * StarUML is an open source project to develop fast‚ flexible‚ extensible‚ featureful‚ and freely-available UML/MDA platform running on Win32 platform. * StarUML is mostly written in Delphi. However‚ StarUML is multi-lingual project and not tied to specific programming language‚ so any programming languages can be used to develop StarUML. * StarUML was formerly known as "Plastic" or "Agora Plastic". Key Features: * UML 2.0 : UML is continuously expanding
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Dyslexia: What is it? Is it possible to define something that no expert in the world has yet to define? Some would say no but‚ dyslexia‚ and the area of its disease‚ has made this possible. It is upon this idea that dyslexia has multiple meanings and symptoms to many people‚ and that is the reason it has yet to be truly defined. There are many people in the world that have succomed to dyslexia and its difficulties and prevailed. Dyslexia can affect anyone and everyone and sometimes may not show
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What is causal-comparative research? Also known as “ex post facto” research. (Latin for “after the fact”). In this type of research investigators attempt to determine the cause or consequences of differences that already exist between or among groups of individuals.Causal-comparative research is an attempt to identify a causative relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable. The relationship between the independent variable and dependent variable is usually a suggested
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LITERARY THEORY A Very Short Introduction Jonathan Culler Chapter 2 What is Literature and Does it Matter? What is literature? You’d think this would be a central question for literary theory‚ but in fact it has not seemed to matter very much. Why should this be? There appear to be two main reasons. First‚ since theory itself intermingles ideas from philosophy‚ linguistics‚ history‚ political theory‚ and psychoanalysis‚ why should theorists worry about whether the texts they’re reading are literary
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What is Hydroelectricity? Hydroelectricity‚ in the simplest of terms‚ is the electricity that is generated using flowing water‚ or that water which is stored in a reservoir. In both cases however‚ the basic fundamental principle of power generation remains the same. here is an explanation of how hydroelectricity is generated. A large volume of water is stored in a reservoir at a high altitude. A power generation plant‚ consisting of multiple turbines is constructed downstream‚ at a much lower
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1961. Elster‚ J. 1989. Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Elster‚ J. 2007. Explaining Social Behavior. More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Frank‚ M. 1984. What is Neostructuralism? trans. Sabine Wilke Gray‚ foreword by Martin Swab Garfinkel‚ H. 1967. Studies in Ethnomethodology. Cambridge: Polity Press‚ 1984. Giddens‚ A. 1976. New Rules of Sociological Method. A Positive Critique of Interpretative Sociologies
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What Is Law? Although “the law” may seem to be abstract and far removed from everyday life‚ it actually is a framework for much of what you do. Perhaps you get a traffic ticket or want a local store to replace a defective toaster you purchased. Perhaps you have been called for jury duty or must testify as a witness to an accident. Perhaps you want to stop a road widening project near your home‚ ponder the issues of prayer in school or abortion‚ or must see that the provisions of a will are carried
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What is Asthma Asthma is a chronic disease that causes narrowing of the small airways in your lungs. Typically patients develop wheezing and usually have increased mucous production in the lungs. The causes of asthma is from family history of asthma. Like Me and my brothers inherited it from mom. Another cause is if as an infant you are exposed to any high levels of antigens‚ which is a toxin or other foreign substance that induces an immune response in the body‚ especially the production of antibodies
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