An interesting question can produce some interesting answers. One of these is the question of what living things are made of. There are many possible answers‚ depending on who you ask. A young child asking his parents may simply be told: “Stuff”. A chemist may go into the detail of the basic common organic elements: Carbon‚ Hydrogen‚ Oxygen‚ Nitrogen and Phosphorous (Starr et al.‚ 2009) and the different compounds that are formed. As biologists‚ we tend to look at the composition of living things
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Duckweed as a nutrient thief and bioremediator Hypothesis: This experiment will evaluate duckweed and its ability to remove nutrients and toxins from water sources. Thus‚ duckweed will kill the organisms that require similar nutrients‚ yet aid the organisms that would otherwise die to toxins. Specifically‚ if one was to place Elodea plants in a tank with duckweed‚ then the Elodea will die due to the lack of nutrients from the duckweed having used the nutrients for its own benefits. Furthermore
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Criteria of Good Research One expects scientific research to satisfy the following criteria: 1. The purpose of the research should be clearly defined and common concepts be used. 2. The research procedure used should be described in sufficient detail to permit another researcher to repeat the research for further advancement‚ keeping the continuity of what has already been attained. 3. The procedural design of the research should be carefully planned to yield results that
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the motions of molecules: what we sense as temperature is related to the average kinetic energy of the molecules of each material: the faster they’re vibrating around‚ the hotter the object feels. We can sidestep this molecular picture by dealing with objects as a whole‚ and treating the energy transfer as the flow of heat‚ rather than kinetic energy transfer among particles. |Specific Heat for Various Materials | |Material |Specific Heat | |
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asks clear questions that will allow you to collect your data. Type this survey up in (with your name somewhere at the top) and print 45 copies. Research Questions: • Write at least 3 research questions about the population that can be answered from your data. Two or more of these questions should be able to be answered by a hypothesis test (these questions will investigate relationships between variables) and one or more could be answered from a confidence interval (this question will investigate
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1993‚ 1996 the oldest continent is Ur. In Rogers’ reconstructions‚ however‚ Kaapvaal and Pilbara are placed far apart already in their Gondwana configuration‚ a reconstruction contradicted by later orogenic events and incompatible with the Vaalbara hypothesis.[3]
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just and act. Robin Williams is an amazing comedian and actor and he knew how to bring joy to everyone he met. Yet he wasn’t perfect he suffered with many challenges. Through his life he faced divorces‚ dementia with Lewy bodies and substance abuse. Robbin Williams was known for his iconic roles in movies like “Flubber” or “Jumanji”. Those movies are only some of the ones he took part in. He went on to earn an award for best supporting actor in 1997. His career originally started with stand-up comedy
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Clinical Question The clinical question driving the inquiry for a quantitative research article is: For nurses who experience moral distress‚ how does adequate staffing of nurses compared to an inadequate number of scheduled nurses affect patient care and ethical professionalism? Furthermore‚ a specific clinical question is created to address the aforementioned issue with a qualitative research article: How does the health care organization regulations positively or negatively effects nursing moral
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• 2 hypothesis of heredity o “Blending” hypothesis: you are a mixture of genetic information from your parents. (bucket of paint) o “Particulate” hypothesis: you receive discreet packets of genetic information‚ passed on undiluted to future generations. (bucket of marbles) • Mendelian genetics o Character: inheritable feature‚ i.e.‚ fur color o Trait: variant for a character‚ i.e.‚ brown o True-bred: all off-spring of same variety o Hybridization: crossing of two different true-breds o P
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A specific phobia is an irrational fear of a usually harmless object‚ place or situation. This fear leads people to dread confronting everyday situations‚ or avoid them altogether. ‘The most common specific phobias are agoraphobia‚ the fear of crowded places and arachnophobia‚ the fear of spiders’ (Davenport‚ 1992‚ pg. 239). The main symptoms of person suffering from specific phobia according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV)‚ include ‘a marked and persistent
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