Eucalyptus Trees
.... environmental factors such as soil type, amount of water, wind direction, the direction the tree is facing and whether there is frost.
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE EUCALYPT
Eucalypt oil is used for cough and colds. The oil is either rubbed on the chest or sniffed up in steam. It is also used in cleansers where strong smells need to be covered up. The taste and smell of eucalypts can be found in sweets. Insects are prevented from chewing the leaves because of the strong smell of the leaves.
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Everglade Dilemma
.... the everglades to life, one must understand them. How was this hive of life created, what happened to it, and what is currently happening to it? What processes can be invoked to help clean the water, remove pollutants, and restore water flowage. The underground aquifer is tapped by every city in Florida. This partially drains some of the water that would otherwise flow in to the everglades. Other unavoidable are the highways that run through the glades and long-stretching canals such as the Miami, which .....
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Effects Of Smoking
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Cigarette smoke also contains carbon monoxide, the same
poisonous gases released from a car exhaust pipe. Carbon
monoxide is a colorless and odorless, highly toxic gas that
reduces the amount of oxygen that the blood can carry.
Combined with the effects produced by the nicotine, it
creates an imbalance in the demand for oxygen by the cells
and the amount of oxygen the blood is able to supply.
Tar is another chemical produced from cigarette smoke.
Tar contains at least 30 cancer ca .....
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Effects Of Smoking 2
.... is a drug and if you're a smoker, you are also a drug addict. The sooner you accept it, the sooner you will be able to get well again and kick the habit.
Smoking, like any addiction, especially addictions that involve chemicals, is a sickness. Fortunately it is a sickness that can be cured. There is help available. Chances are that unless you can lock yourself away for a few weeks, you will need some help to get well again. Help can be something as simple as some education, or it may be a prescripti .....
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E-commerce
.... Program has sponsored the Roundtable on Information Technology to explore such issues. In August 1997, the Program once again convened a small group of top executives of information technology companies, computer scientists, academics, and government policymakers to discuss "The Globalization of Electronic Commerce: How New Information Technologies are Altering the Social, Economic, and Cultural Landscape." The 27 conference participants met August 21-23, 1997 in Aspen, Colorado, to consider an agenda .....
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Eagles 2
.... areas where fish or other prey are plentiful.
Wildlife experts believe there may have been 25,000 to as many as 75,000 nesting bald eagles in the lower 48 states when the bird was adopted as our national symbol in 1782. Since that time, the bald eagle has suffered from habitat destruction and degradation, illegal shooting, and contamination of its food source, most notably due to the pesticide DDT. By the early 1960s there were fewer than 450 bald eagle nesting pairs in the lower 48 states. Bald eag .....
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Early Health And Medicine
.... Some of these would include pasteurized milk(you can see where it received it's name), bacteria, fermentation, yeast, and rabies:to name a few. Within a year of Pasteur's remedy for rabies, he treated and cured maore than 2,000 patients.
A German pathologist named Robert Kock (1843-1910) studied a disease called diptheria. Koch learned htat diptheria bacteria or bacilli could only be found in samples from a patients throat. Although Koch could not understand how diptheria was somehow affec .....
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Early Synthetic Polymers
.... It soon replaced common gunpowder as the explosive charge in the ammunition for rifles and artillery.
Cellulose nitrate was also used to make an early polymer containing composite material, safety glass. This was a sandwich made of a sheet of cellulose nitrate in between two layers of glass. The sheet of cellulose nitrate held the glass together when it was broken. This was great for automobile windshields. The glass would still break, but the broken pieces would stay stuck to the cellulose ni .....
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Earthquakes 2
.... effect that earthquakes have is strong ground motion. Strong ground motion is a result of seismic waves reaching the earth's surface. Another effect is post-earthquake fires which are a secondary effect of strong ground motion. Ground failure and landslides are both effects of an earthquake mainly caused by strong ground motion. Tsunamis which are immense sea waves occur when earthquakes happen beneath the ocean floor.
To determine the strength and location of an earthquake scientists use a seismog .....
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Ebola Virus 3
.... with Ebola, three hundred forty people did not make it. For a few years, there were no reported cases of the Ebola virus. Without warning, the Ebola appears and sweeps through Sudan, once more. This time there were only thirty four cases, but took the lives of twenty two patients. All of the victims of Ebola probably ask the same questions, “ God, what did I do to deserve this? ” The doctors still did not find the cause of the Ebola virus. I wonder how are the doctors suppose to explain .....
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Ebola Virus 4
.... cave in Eastern Kenya. Ebola infections in Sudan in 1976 and 1979 occurred in workers of a cotton factory containing thousands of bats in the roof. However, in all instances, study of antibody in bats failed to detect evidence of infection, and no virus was isolated form bat tissue.
The index case in 1976 was never identified, but this large outbreak resulted in 280 deaths of 318 infections. The outbreak was primarily the result of person to person spread and transmission by contaminated needles in .....
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Effect Of Temp On Endo And Ectotherms (metabolism)
.... with the class. The metabolic rates of the mouse were conducted by the instructor and distributed. We also did not use the Winkler method to measure the O2 levels. We used a measuring device instead.
The results of this experiment are shown in the compiled student data in Table 1 below. the metabolic rates of the mouse remained constant with a slight flux, however, the crayfish metabolic rates were very different from one another.
Table 1
Metabolic Rates of Mouse and Crayfish at Various Tempe .....
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Effect On Pot
.... "changes" that occur normally in the
mammalian brain. Wu et al. found a correlation between cannabis use and low sperm counts in human males. This is misleading because a
decrease in sperm count has not been shown to have a negative effect on fertility and because the sperm count returns to normal after
cannabis use has stopped.. Another claim made was that cannabis causes chromosome breakage. The primary source for this are studies
that were conducted by Dr. Gabriel Nahas in the early 1980 .....
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Effects Of Drugs On Pregnet Women
.... cannabis, cocaine, heroine, and speed. Drugs can cause a variety of adverse affects on the fetus. These effects include lower birth weights, inadequate fetal growth, depression of the central nervous system, and possible impairment of fetal brain development. Lots of these drugs increase the pregnant women’s heart rate and blood pressure, which decreases the amount of blood the mother gives to her fetus. Therefore the baby doesn’t get lots of blood, and more importantly the oxygen in the .....
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Effects Of Massage Theropy On The Central Nervous System
.... or massage methodology employed, and massage is often rolled in with a range of other therapeutic methods (Westland 1993).
Nevertheless, interest in massage as a valid means of therapy is on the increase and in particular in the West, where stress is one of the most commonly experienced states, massage has a clear role to play in reducing stress and helping people learn to recognise early stressful symptoms as compared with a more relaxed and less stressed state. With pharmacology, medical techn .....
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