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- 3711: Mass And Science
- ... small block of wood floating in water can be pushed back and forth very easily by hand. Pushing a large motorboat requires either a much greater push or a longer time to have the same effect. The effort required changing the motion of an object is a measure of its mass. The motorboat has a lot more mass than the block of wood. The metric unit of mass is the gram ...
- 3712: Quantum Computing
- ... and most powerful device on the quantum technology drawing board is the quantum computer, a machine that would be able to perform mathematical manipulations that are impossible, even in principle, on a conventional computer. In effect, a quantum computer could process information in many alternate realities simultaneously, and integrate them into a single real-world answer, enabling nothing less than a totally new type of mathematics at our disposal. Indeed, all ...
- 3713: ADHD On Child Intelligence
- ... such as the Academic Performance Rating Scale or daily report cards (due to necessity of immediate reinforcement) are useful in monitoring performance (Dulcan, 1997). Cognitive-behavioral interventions have also been shown to have a positive effect in academic achievement. Interventions such as self-instructional training, problem-solving training, attribution retraining and stress reduction procedure work as well. However well they work, these methods of interventions have not been widely implemented in ...
- 3714: Animal Research
- ... heart disease, cancer, stroke, AIDS and birth defects." He goes on further to say that animal experiments can not only mislead researchers but even contribute to illnesses or deaths by failing to predict any toxic effect on drugs. The majority of animals in laboratories are used for genetic manipulation, surgical intervention or injection of foreign substances. Researchers produce solutions from these animal "models" and are adapting them to human conditions. Unfortunately ...
- 3715: Alternative Fuels (fuel Cells)
- ... that, because fuel cells are quiet and produce low heat, they make the submarine virtually invisible to surrounding ships. Fuel cell engines for submarines are far cheaper than nuclear powered ones, and have no harmful effect on the environment.
- 3716: A Fabulous Analysis Of The Flamboyantly Gay
- ... soon explain one must first recognize a simple concept regarding the human mind. As most will agree, bottled emotions do more harm than good. The act of keeping feelings inside tends to create a pressurized effect on the brain, overloading the psyche with pent-up garbage. As is the case in any good romance movie, the onlooker with bottled emotions waits until the end to release everything, dramatically and emotionally releasing ...
- 3717: Marijuana (simple Essay Without Concution)
- ... the marijuana may be serious. When smoked, the effects of cannabis begin immediately. When eaten the effects can take 1 to 2 hours to begin, depending on how much food is in the stomach. The effect after smoking cannabis may last for 1-2 hours and when eaten, the effects may sometimes last longer than 4 hours. One of the primary effects of smoking cannabis is relaxation, and changes of mood ...
- 3718: Fungus
- ... swirl into the slightest breeze. The largest of the puffballs, Calavatia gigantea, may be as large as 4 feet (120 centimeters) or more across. The earthstars are so named because, in addition to the puffball effect, they have a leaflike expanded base that resembles a star. Since some mushrooms are poisonous, only an expert in mushroom identification should collect mushrooms that are intended for people to eat. Truffles: For centuries this ...
- 3719: Nucular War
- ... if the clothing is too thin to absorb the thermal radiation. Climatic Effects Besides the blast and radiation damage from individual bombs, a large-scale nuclear exchange between nations could perhaps have a disastrous global effect on climate. According to scientists, the explosion of not even one-half of the combined number of warheads in the United States and Russia would throw enormous quantities of dust and smoke into the atmosphere ...
- 3720: Nuclear Energy 2
- ... difficult to manage. (78) The reason why plutonium is so dangerous when it gets into the lungs is because plutonium releases radiation to a small mass of the lung at a very short distance. This effect of radiation from plutonium giving a concentrated dose to one small area is much greater than if the same amount of radiation had been uniformly distributed throughout the lung. Another problem with plutonium is its ...
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