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- 1011: Gene Therapy
- ... of all these vectors is the packaging of the DNA into the viral capsule by replacing part (or all) of the viral genes. By removing the crucial viral genes, the viruses also loose their pathogenic effect. After the manipulation of the viral genome, the virus will be used to deliver the genetic material by viral infection to the target cell. Retroviruses have a limitation because they are unable to infect non ... inviting more controversy such as the abortion issue. Such therapy, however, has improved the well being of the patients. There are many other concerns dealing with gene therapy. For instance, once gene therapy has taken effect it cannot be stopped or in other words, it is irreversible. Unlike drugs, you can't stop producing genes. In addition, the mixed results in delivering genes have raised some concern. Some scientists fear, with ...
- 1012: Ansel Adams' Moon and Half Dome
- ... is how intimidating the sheer size of Half Dome is. The point from where the photograph was taken is somewhere level to the base of Half Dome, and a distance away from it, giving the effect of having to look up to see the whole view. One of the castings of the human mind is that when one has to look up at something, it brings on a feeling of insignificance ... of depth. The shadows created by Half Dome also further the feeling of Half Domes dominating presence by producing a pathway of light towards the middle bottom of the photograph, which, in conjunction with the effect of the eye being drawn to the top of the photograph, produce the feeling of being pushed forward and downward while the eye is being pushed up ending ground into the base of Half Dome ...
- 1013: Cinematography Everything You Need To Know
- ... rate) differs from the number produced per unit time by the camera, an apparent speeding up or slowing down of the normal rate is created. Changes in the frame rates are used occasionally for comic effect or motion analysis. Cinematography becomes an art when the filmmaker attempts to make moving images that relate directly to human perception, provide visual significance and information, and provoke emotional response. History of Film Technology Several ... of real scenes recorded outdoors (workmen, trains, fire engines, boats, parades, soldiers) or of staged theatrical performances shot indoors. These two early tendencies--to record life as it is and to dramatize life for artistic effect--can be viewed as the two dominant paths of film history.^Georges MELIES was the most important of the early theatrical filmmakers. A magician by trade, Melies, in such films as A Trip to the ...
- 1014: Indonesia Crisis As An Example
- ... region. It goes without saying that the economic meltdown will affect Japans politics dramatically differently than Malaysias. However, events during the last week have drawn our attention to one area of commonality: the effect of the economic crisis on the military in China and in Indonesia. These two countries are not usually lumped together; they differ in profound ways. But they share this: they have both used their military ... and domestic? To be more precise, will they return to those missions effectively, or will they return to those missions while they bide their time as an institution and as individuals. Business has a corrosive effect on any military organization. The principles of self-interest and the principles of self-sacrifice are not compatible. A generation of military officers has had self-enrichment as its primary mission. The economic collapse has ...
- 1015: I Want To Believe
- ... a person is in the midst of hypnogogic sleep they are almost always completely paralyzed and suffer hypnopompic hallucinations, hallucinations which give the sufferer the impression of a presence around their beds with the secondary effect of floating. When a person reaches this stage of the hallucination they then interpret it as being an alien abduction experience. The project will then look at outside influences that might trigger temporal lobe epilepsy ... is likewise being exploited in order to force our desires along channels which serve a commercial interest of some kind" (Hass. H, 1970, P.183) This observation by Hass suggests, the media has an influential effect on our insight into the world around us, shepherding us into what they would like us to perceive as reality. If you asked people to describe what an alien being from another world might have ...
- 1016: The Yanoman
- ... to demonstrate their friendship towards each other, the two villages trade and feast. The men drug themselves on a daily basis with a substance called 'ebene'. It causes for the eyes to become watery. Another effect of this drug is and excessive production of mucous. The recipient allows for the mucous to drip freely from each nostril. It is believed among these people that the usage of this drug will have an effect in which bad spirits are relieved of. The dead are highly respected in this culture. Once a person dies, it is forbidden to mention the name of the person ever again. It is considered an ...
- 1017: Philosophy - Mills Utilitarian
- ... as a whole and therefore instrumentally good as a means to promoting happiness. Utilitarianism considers precedent to be important, but does not offer any method of determining exceptions. It is impossible to determine how much effect on precedent any given isolated action will have. In the case of determining whether or not to torture the terrorist, one must consider whether it is good for society to allow torture to be used ... caused by the action. Utilitarianism offers no method for comparison. The problem is that a person faced with making the decision cannot get the information. Even through experience, it is hard to judge how much effect each action has on precedent. More specifically, it is hard to determine whether an action is worthy of being an exception to a rule. Utilitarianism offers no resolution to this problem. Utilitarianism also considers the ...
- 1018: Indexing
- ... mutual funds must put new money to work...they can not hold cash...and their investors all buy the exact same stocks. When stocks go down, index funds, being fully invested, will receive the ultimate effect of the decline. Combined with this loss is the fact that they will also have to sell shares to cover shareholder redemptions. These funds will get hit harder than many active portfolios with a cash ... happy to pay taxes on the returns produced by active money managers during periods of declining markets. Not many investors prefer losses to earning some gains and interest, even with the tax man waiting. The effect of so many investors buying index funds is that they tend to guard the money market. An investor could actually, in a cost-effective manner, buy and sell the market. The asset funding of active ...
- 1019: Aristotle On Art
- ... haphazard way. The plot of the play must represent the action of the play as a unified whole. 'Incidents must be so arranged that if any of them is differently placed or taken away the effect of wholeness will be seriously disrupted.' (Poetics, ch 8). It is the historian who makes a copy or record of things that have happened. The poet describes what might happen. The kinds of things that ... awaken fear and pity in the audience. In this way tragedy effects a healthy catharsis (purgation) of these emotions. Thus, Aristotle implicitly rejects Plato's view that the performance of a tragedy has a bad effect on the character of the audience.
- 1020: Geoloy Of Mars
- ... seasonal changes just as Earth does. It is believed that the Planets 5 difference between winter and summer on Mars is even greater than on Earth. Mars is extremely hard to understand due to the effect of blurring that is caused by the two atmospheres of Mars. Scientists do know, however, that Mars is relatively small and that changes take place in the surface features when the seasons change. It is ... 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, 1992). Therefore, the surface is basically plain-like and covered with large craters. There are also some areas where the rock is " jumbled." The poles of Mars are iced over and the temperature is ...
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