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- 13881: Born Too Early
- ... numerous doctors visits and then specialists that have to be seen to make sure that some of the medications given didn’t affect any of the baby’s internal organs following the arrival to their new home. For instance, a baby that gets too much oxygen at birth can have trouble with their eyes. This is when a retinopathy of prematurity test is completed. This determines if the retina of the ... preemies can have very few or numerous problems, they grow to be healthy happy children and adults. Premature infants are very special. They have to go through so much, beginning with their entrance into the world, that they deserve the special treatment that they are given by all that care for them. A premature infant does not stay sick. They do get better and go on to live normal healthy and ...
- 13882: DVD VS. DIVX: Consumer Product Investigation
- ... will also look at the latest features of DVD, DIVX (Digital Video Express) and let the reader make the decision if it's an option that is really all that necessary. DVD is a relatively new format, but it has made a huge impact in the consumer video market since it's relapse only a year ago. DVD is DVD, which stands for Digital Video Disc, Digital Versatile Disc, or nothing ... movie again for a small fee. Initial cost of "owning" a disc is reduced. Discs can be unlocked for unlimited viewing (DIVX Silver), an inexpensive way to preview before deciding to purchase. The disc is new; no damage from previous renters. Consmers may like the fact that their are no more late fees for these types of disc's however you do have to connect them to your phone lines, which ... no extras such as foreign language tracks, subtitles, biographies, trailers, and commentaries. (DIVX is encouraging studios to release supplemented discs on regular DVD.) The player must be hooked to your phone line, possibly requiring a new jack in your living room or a phone extension cable strung across it. If your phone line is down for a long period of time, you may not be able to watch DIVX discs. ...
- 13883: Ebola 3
- ... from every opening on your body, blood fails to clot, so if you get cut in any way your body will never stop bleeding from that wound. Ebola could spread and infect everyone in the world in 48 hours. Marburg, Germany In this small German town people were taking tests on African monkeys. These monkeys were infected with the infamous Ebola virus. What's horrifying about Ebola is that the virus ... virus. The symptoms are identical to Zaire's, but the fatality rate is only 1 in every 4 people, like Marburg. Reston, VA, 1989 A fourth strand of Ebola appears, and scares politicians because this new strand was first found next to Washington DC! This could end life on this planet. Not much information is known about yet, just that the virus spawned from a monkey house in Reston, VA, a ...
- 13884: Environmental Satire
- ... great accomplishments we have made that we could have possibly overlooked while running around with our busy schedules. We recognize our efforts to create powerful industries and production plants that produce endless chemical compounds and new materials. The discovery and use of fossil fuels, of which has fed our automobiles and at times added a protective coating to our shores and beaches. The men and women who clear the land and ... protect our delicate skin. They ll probably have some kind of pill I can take instead. Even if some of the polar ice caps do melt, that just means more beaches for us on our new glorious days of sunshine. So what if a few million people drown? I suppose earthweek is just another form of the government keeping us down. We have become far too brainwashed when we start to ... of careless slobs. Though, one week out of the year isn t too bad to have to plant a tree or recycle your plastics. It is the ones who spend their time and money developing new, safer techniques to ensure the health of our planet that need our help the most. They just don t seem to understand the detrimental importance of self consciousness. We as citizens, as Americans, as ...
- 13885: Telnet
- Telnet PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT Before gophers, hypertext, and sophisticated web browsers, telnet was the primary means by which computer users connected their machines with other computers around the world. Telnet is a plain ASCII terminal emulation protocol that is still used to access a variety of information sources, most notably libraries and local BBS's. This report will trace the history and usage of ... save" end users from having to deal with the command line prompt and the peculiar details of commands like Telnet. While that may be the case, the tendency remains in place for programmers to develop new software by building on the old. Therefore, knowing the underlying command structure of older protocols like telnet and rlogin are likely to remain essential skills for the networking professional in the forseeable future.
- 13886: Egyptian Bedouins
- ... in their life. A Muslim that visits Mecca seven times in their lifetime can visit the Dome of the Rock is Jerusalem. The Dome of the Rock is the second most holy place in the world for Muslims. Most reputable literature written on the Bedouins were written by anthropologists that have spent time and traveled with them. One of these anthropologists, Joseph J. Hobbs, spent two years with the Ma Awa ... Egyptian Bedouins. Through these travels he was able to document the stories and traditions of these desert people. It is most fascinating that the Bedouins of Egypt live off of the deadest land in the world. They travel from place to place looking for the highest proliferation of plants for their ibexes and gazelles to feed. They depend on these animals not only for food but also for money. Small animals ... the Nomadic Bedouins of Egypt is most fascinating. They seem to be a people that love their life and work to make the most of it. They live off of the deadest land in the world and take great pride in doing so. Nomadic Bedouins illustrate that mankind can inhabitat most any environment and prosper with great endurance. Bibliography Cole, Donald P. Nomads of the Nomads. The Al Murrah Bedouin ...
- 13887: Ecommerce
- ... can say trade on the internet is called e-commerce. This concept has been widely used in the market now, since last 2 years and almost each and every company is coming out with this new formula to stay in the market. Almost each and every superstore has their web site and facility to their customers to buy products online. In the 21st century each and every individual among us will ... web sites also offer points towards everything that you purchase online and later on you can redeem this points to shop something free or use it towards your sky miles and fly free around the world. ? E-commerce is user friendly and very easy to use cause nowadays each and every individual knows how to use the internet. ? The online banking now saves a lot of time of a busy businessman ...
- 13888: Software Piracy and it's Effects
- ... the most by individual on a daily bases. This is because one might not know be informed about these law or because not much is done to enforce these law. Also some countries of the world have no Copyright laws. Software Piracy is a breach of a copyright law as one copies data contained on the medium on to another medium without the consent of the owner of the Software. When ... code and each code begin different according to different variables. Some Software program have copy protection one them but all of them are cracked very quickly by hackers and therefore it to unlikely that any new copy protection will not be cracked. To much copy protection could drive away legitimate consumers. Till now politician haven't really looked into the problem of Software piracy and Copyrights very thoroughly as they think ...
- 13889: Earthquakes 2
- ... can simply be defined as a naturally induced shaking of the ground caused by the fracture and sliding of rock within the earth's crust. There are at least 6,000 earthquakes detected throughout the world each year. Many people have heard about or experienced first hand the effects that an earthquake can have. But many people don't understand what causes them and what exactly is happening during an earthquake. In the following paper I will be explaining the causes and effects of earthquakes. There are at least 6,000 earthquakes detected throughout the world each year. Of these 6,000 about 5,500 are either too small or too far away from populated areas to be felt. About 450 of these estimated 6,000 are felt but cause no ... slip faults which are caused as a result of either type of stress. Some earthquakes tremendously effect the earth. No earthquake is exactly alike another so the effects vary depending on the part of the world the earthquake occurred and the size of the earthquake. One effect that earthquakes have is strong ground motion. Strong ground motion is a result of seismic waves reaching the earth's surface. Another effect ...
- 13890: Internet Censorship and the Communications Decency Act
- Internet Censorship and the Communications Decency Act Last October, congress passed and President Clinton signed into law a new "sequel" to the unconstitutional Communications Decency Act. This new Internet censorship bill, the Child Online Protection Act or COPA (a.k.a. "CDA II"), would establish criminal penalties for any commercial distribution of material deemed "harmful to minors". Although I feel that this law ... censorship laws are wrong, the most important is the feeling that these kind of laws are a violation to our constitutional rights to free speech as stated in the First Amendment. The Internet is a new medium for free speech worldwide, and I think that it would be terribly ironic if the United States should be the first nation to pass laws restricting this, for the sake of inefficiently protecting ...
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