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Blood Pressure
... hypertension. One is primary hypertension and
the other is secondary hypertension. The cause of primary hypertension is unknown. It just happens but however, there are certain risk factors or associations such as hereditary factors, race, age, environmental and life-style factors (where you live, salt and other chemicals, weight, stress, alcohol, lack of exercise). The difference between primary and secondary hypertension is that we know the causes of secondary hypertension. Usually, the causes of secondary hypertension include renal artery stenosis (or other cause of increased plasma renin), renal parenchym ...
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Rutherford's Gold Foil Experiment
... He began persuing alpha particles in 1908. With the help of Geiger
he found the number of alpha particles emitted per second by a gram of radium.
He was also able to confirm that alpha particles cause a faint but discrete
flash when striking luminescent zinc sulfide screen. These great
accomplishments are all overshadowed by Rutherford's famous Gold Foil experiment
which revolutionized the atomic model.
This experiment was Rutherford's most notable achievement. It not only
disproved Thomson's atomic model but also paved the way for such discoveries as
the atomic bomb and nuclear power. The atomic model h ...
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The Effects Of UFO's On People
... extra terrestrials. (60 minutes, CBS) On the
contrary, most scientists now agree that almost all sightings and stories of
extra terrestrials are not authentic. The United States government has records
of thousands of UFO sightings since 1948, including photos of alleged UFOs and
interviews with people who claim to have seen them. Since UFOs were considered
a potential security risk, the report on these sightings was originally
classified as secret. (Craig, 917) When the report was later declassified it
showed that 90 percent of all UFO sightings could be easily explained. Most of
the sightings turned out to be ...
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Augiga The Charioteer
... of the star, all the way down to El Nath, the
second brightest star (gamma Auriga) which is actually
shared with Taurus, and also known as beta Taurus.
Auriga's stars are fairly bright; five are second
magnitude or brighter. Alpha Auriga (Capella) is the sixth
brightness star, at a visual magnitude of 0.08. The star is
43.5 light years away, and is about ten times the size of
our Sun. Capella's visual magnitude is really the combined
brightness of the primary star and another star that
revolves every 104 days. This star is also known as
Menkalina. The star name derives from the Arabic name Al
Mankib d ...
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Acid Rain
... are manufactured many chemicals are
used to create it. However because of the difficulty and cost of properly
disposing of these products they are often emitted into the atmosphere with
little or no treatment.
The term was first considered to be important about 20 years ago when
scientists in Sweden and Norway first believed that acidic rain may be causing
great ecological damage to the planet. The problem was that by the time that the
scientist found the problem it was already very large. Detecting an acid lake is
often quite difficult. A lake does not become acid over night. It happens over a
period of ...
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Nuclear Powernuclear Power
... of years ago. Burning fossil fuels has other
downfalls, too. All the burning that is required to turn the turbines
releases much sulfur, nitrogen gases, and other pollutants into the
atmosphere.
The cleanest, cheapest, and least polluting power plant of the two types
is the hydroelectric power plant. The main reason most countries use
thermal versus the hydroelectric is because their countries don’t have
enough concentrated water to create enough energy to generate
electricity. (World Book vol. 14, 586)
Nuclear power plants generate only about eleven percent of the world’s
electricit ...
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Hurricane Floyd
... are over the ocean in either the North Atlantic ocean, or the eastern North Pacific Ocean. If a hurricane is in the western Pacific Ocean than it is called a typhoon. One in the Indian Ocean is called a cyclone. The danger region of a hurricane is normally in the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean. The hurricane season is the six month time period from June-November. The peak month of hurricanes is September.
Hurricanes form over the ocean. Easterly waves, what hurricanes develop from, are long, narrow regions of low pressure which occur in ocean winds called trade winds. At first, these easterly waves can grow ...
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Animal Experimentation
... BACKGROUND
Use of Animals in Research
Some of the earliest recorded studies involving animals were performed by
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), who revealed anatomical differences among animals by
dissecting them (Rowan, 1984). The Greek physician Galen (A.D. 129-199)
maintained that experimentation led to scientific progress and is said to have
been the first to conduct demonstrations with live animals--specifically pigs-a
practice later extended to other species and termed "vivisection" (Loew, 1982).
However, it was not until the sixteenth century that many experiments on animals
began to be recorded. In 1628, William ...
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Ebola
... of what the virus is capable of doing, how victims can be properly treated , and by performing prompt action to isolate the virus before it has dispersed.
The virus is a member of a family of RNA viruses know as filoviruses. Marburg virus and four viruses: Zaire, Sudan, Reston and Tai are the five different viruses that have been known to cause disease in humans, while Reston only causes disease within monkeys. Filoviruses, arenaviruses, flaviruses, and bunyaviruses are the viruses responsible for causing viral hemorrhagic fevers. All forms of virus of viral hemorrhagic fever begin with fever and muscle ach ...
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Geoloy Of Mars
... do know, however, that Mars is relatively small and that changes take place in the surface features when the seasons change. It is also known that dust storms are prevalent and leaves the surface of Mars covered by a red haze. Mars has a very thin atmosphere which is composed of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon, water vapor and oxygen. Mars also has no magnetic field. " Because the atmosphere of mars is so thin, wind velocities up to several hundred Km per hour are required to raise the dust particles during a dust storm, and these fast- moving particles erode structures with a sand-blasting effect " (Grolier, 1 ...
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