Light
.... was split over the
actual nature of light. Around 1800, Thomas Young devised an experiment
designed specifically to settle the debate over the nature of light once and
for all. The basic principle behind the experiment was how light would
behave when it encountered an obstacle with a hole that was smaller than
the beam of light. Young set up a beam of light to shine through a slit,
then the resulting light that made it through that slit was to pass through
two more slits side by side .....
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Lighting Advancments
.... for a safer community. The lamps were also used in homes and offices to provide light and allow for work at night. The candle and oil based lamps still had many downfalls. One problem was that the application still used fire as the source of light. The fire would omit carbon monoxide and always posed a threat if the fire was not watched closely. The oil-based lamps could fall over and would create a large fire by igniting all the oil at once, burning everything flammable around the lamp. (Hayward 23-2 .....
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Lightning
.... the threat of lightning causes many work stoppages and lost production increasing the time and cost required to
prepare NASA spacecraft for flight.
Benjamin Franklin performed the first systematic, scientific study of lightning during the second half of the 18th century. Prior to that time, electrical science had developed to the point where positive and negative charges could be separated. Electrical machines could, by rubbing together two different materials, store the charges in primitiv .....
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Lime Disease
.... B. burgdorferi is approximately 20 to um long and 0.2 to 0.25 um wide, with 7 to
11 flagella. More than 30 proteins are contained within B. burgdorferi1. This bacteria
uses white-footed mice, mosquitoes, and deer as their hosts.
This disease does not discriminate between sex and age; male and female, as
well as old and young are affected. It is widely distributed around the world in the
temperate zones3. A person is infected when a black-legged tick imbeds itself into
them while out i .....
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Linux 2
.... yet powerful by today's standards”, you ask. The answer to this question lies in the history of UNIX; UNIX is a sort of subset of a much larger and more complex operating system called MULTICS. Both UNIX and MULTICS were developed decades ago for very large computers; only now, decades later are personal computers finally powerful enough to tackle these multitasking, multi-user systems with advanced features. Getting back to the crux of our first fact, LINUX looks like UNIX. LINUX is not offici .....
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Linux Against Microsoft Windows
.... how Linux is secure.Linux is a stable operating system that never fails like Windows.When Bill Gates presented the Windows 98, an error message appeared on the screen that says you must shutdown your computer. In Linux, there are not error messages like that. You can kill a process that is not replying with kill command.Linux has true multitasking property.It is true because it is not like Windows. You can run up to twelve process in the same time with no performance loss.Miicrosoft claims that Windo .....
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Linux Vs Nt
.... compared to Windows machines. Re-booting the server should not take place very often, and Linux outperforms NT in the category of reliability. The cost of the down times go to the administrators who must be there and the time lost to perform duties when the system is down.
Very high regards go to the multitasking abilities and virtual memory usage that Linux provides. Although NT runs the same features, Linux provides the true meaning to running multiple programs without crashing the system. Alth .....
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Lions
.... India. By 1900 lions were no longer found in Syria; today Asiatic lions are limited to the Gėr Sanctuary in India. Lions also roam Africa south of the Sahara, particularly the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and the Kruger National Park in South Africa. This drastic reduction in range came about as humans and domestic livestock spread into savanna lands. Because lions live in open areas, they are easily shot by hunters and herders.
Lions fur coats are a highly prized possession by poachers, and ar .....
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Local Area Network Bridges
.... low-delay, high-bandwidth (e.g., 1-10 Mbps) broadcast channels. A bridged LAN environment preserves the low-delay and high-bandwidth feature but its topology may be more dynamic than in a single LAN due to possible bridge or LAN failures and hosts being moved around.
Bridge routing algorithms should meet the following requirements:
1) A bridges LAN environment should resemble a single LAN environment as closely as possible. In other words, the extension should be transparent to hosts.
2) The t .....
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Long Term Affects Of Fas
.... who suffer from fetal alcohol effects go unnoticed. They are looked upon as having behavioral problems. Because of this lack of recognition the treatment of their problems are mishandled which creates a very difficult and confusing childhood for these children. (McCreight, 1997).
Even when fetal alcohol effects are recognized there is limited treatment. There are hardly any programs in schools and society to help the children maintain normalcy. It was not until 1973 that the deficit was f .....
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Longitude
.... weight of 86 pounds, but fitted into a small box as John promised it would. H-2 was also bar-shaped and included an implement to ensure a unchanging drive and a more agreeable temperature reimbursement device. Although its motion was adequately regular and exact for finding the longitude of a ship within the nearest limits proposed by the Parliament, H-2 was not good enough for Harrison. So, Harrison devoted nineteen years to build H-3. The H-3 was the leanest of the sea clocks and was small enough to .....
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Lsd
.... disturbed perception of time vomiting euphoria lachrymation megalomania hypotension schizophrenic-like state respiratory effects are stimulated at low doses and depressed at higher doses reduced "defenses", subject to "power of suggestion" brachycardia The study of hallucinogens s .....
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Lsd 2
.... hours. Slight hallucinations may appear. The third stage from hours 4-7 is the climax. Colors are greatly magnified, while once familiar shapes distorted beyond recognition. The hallucinations become intense, and total unreal objects may appear. A user may go through a profound "mystical" experience where they find insight or enlightenment about themselves or the world around them. The fourth stage is the downfall where the drug wears off and the user re-enters the normal world. LSD was very popula .....
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Lsd 3
.... 40) Sandoz Laboratories urged many doctors to experiment with LSD to gain further knowledge of experiences which may occur to a Schizophrenic.
The effects of LSD are completely unpredictable. The user usually experiences wild mood swings and the sensation of feeling multiple emotions at once. Colors seem more intense and objects appear to move in an almost stroboscopic manner. It has also been known for the user to feel as though they are seeing sounds and hearing colors. If a large enough dose is .....
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Luggerhead Turtle
.... turtle found has plastic in it's gut, which causes it to die. The other danger is the dolphin fish which preys on the turtle for food and sharks off all kinds. The other is rain which causes the water to become thin due to the salt being desolved by the rain.
In conclusion the Luggerhead Turtle goes faces a very harsh life. Almost only one out of a thousand turtles live. The Luggerhead Turtle lays a total of five million eggs a year. Even though the Luggerhead Turtle goes through a hard life it manag .....
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