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- 461: Television 2 -
- ... torrent. Television has already modified our social behavior. It helps our taste for things that visual. The impact of the picture and its colors. It encourages in us a strive for the big spectacle. The effect can be seen in the way we react to one another and in the world of advertising. But television cannot yet be said to have enriched our civilization. For that to happen it must become ... movement and, by showing equipment and drawings, people hope to enlighten people by working on this most consumed of consumer technologies. A brief history 1873. Ireland. A young telegraph operator, Joseph May, discovered the photoelectric effect: selenium bars, exposed to sunlight, show a variation in resistance. Variations in light intensity can therefore be transformed into electrical signals. That means they can be transmitted. 1875. Boston, USA. George Carey proposed a system ... Strasbourg, had the idea of placing two electromagnets around the neck of the tube to make the electron beam move horizontally and vertically. On the fluorescent screen the movement of the electron beam had the effect of tracing visible lines on the screen. A Russian scientist, Boris Rosing, suggested this might be used as a receiver screen and conducted experiments in 1907 in his laboratory in Saint Petersburg. As early ...
- 462: Merry-Go-Round In The Sea - Ra
- ... Randolph Stowe's novel, "MERRY-GO-ROUND IN THE SEA", the problems of adolescence and early adulthood are a primary focus. Many factors contribute to the complexity of these problems, the main issues being h effect war has on a growing boy and the loss of Rick's carefree attiude and innocence through the trauma he endured as a POW. Not only does Stowe concentrate on phychological changes within the main ... time influcts upon them. Stowe effectively includes these issues as part of the novel's cycle, which is represented by the symbol, the merry-go-round. As a small child, the war had a shattering effect on Rob, though in his naivety it was no obvious to himself. The general issues of growing up are hard enough for a child to cope with, let alone the added concern of war. The ... and seemed to hold some sort of secret. However, Rob eventually becamse resigned to the fact that this was something he would never be able to help Rick with. Although the war had a shattering effect on the characters, it was the main contributor to the development of them, both mentally and physically.
- 463: Overview of Video On Demand Systems
- ... industry standards to be able to work together. This interoperability is also critically important when a video server may be transmitting data across a WAN to multiple users, in multiple sites. Perhaps the most important effect of standards is that they protect the end users' investments. A customer purchasing a standards-based system can rely on not only the current interoperability of his equipment but also the prospect of future upgrades ... information in a large scale (Government) VOD system include: Recorded and Live video, Scanned Images, EO, IR, SAR collected Images. Recorded video is the primary concern of this paper. Since latency and jitter do not effect Imagery data types they will be noted but not expanded upon. Live video is the primary concern of video conferencing, but the requirements do overlap with recorded (VOD) video. REQUIREMENTS: Recorded video must be digitized ... lower ATM adaptive layers but some interoperability issues still exist. The American ATM Forum has standardized on ATM AAL 5 to map MPEG-2 for transport. While the European ETSI has chosen AAL2. These inconsistencies effect the transport of multimedia only through ATM LANS. Protocols There are several transport protocols that can be implemented for audio- video applications; TCP, UDP, SONET, TCP/IP Resource Reservation Protocol (RCVP) and IPX/SPX. ...
- 464: Dissabiliteis
- ... discrimination against persons with disabilities" means any distinction, exclusion, or restriction based on a disability, record of disability, condition resulting from a previous disability, or perception of disability, whether present or past, which has the effect or objective of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment, or exercise by a person with a disability of his or her human rights and fundamental freedoms. b) A distinction or preference adopted by a state ... in force indefinitely, but any state party may denounce it. The instrument of denunciation shall be deposited with the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States. The Convention shall cease to have force and effect for the denouncing state one year after the date of deposit of the instrument of denunciation, and shall remain in force for the other states parties. Such denunciation shall not exempt the state party from the obligations imposed upon it under this Convention in respect of any action or omission prior to the date on which the denunciation takes effect. ARTICLE XIV 1. The original instrument of this Convention, the English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish texts of which are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States, ...
- 465: Our Radiant Planet- Depletion of the Ozone Layer
- ... suppression of the body's immunes system to both infectious disease and chemical sensitivities. Sunburning is caused by UVB exposure. It causes a reddening of the skin and over time can cause a dramatic aging effect on the skin. The three types of skin cancers induced by UV radiation are basal cell, squamous cell and melanoma. Basal cells and squamous cell cancers, also called non-melanomas are caused by UVB irradiation ... in plant populations and in biodiversity. Depletion of plants that serve as a sink for carbon dioxide could lead to major problems and enhance climate change, and changes in food web could have a domino effect that could affect mankind. Similar processes can occur in the marine ecosystem, decreasing populations of phytoplankton in the worlds oceans. Disruption of the marine food webs will have the same effect as changes in the terrestrial webs mentioned above. Ecosystems may be further disturbed by effects of UV radiation on animals, especially in vulnerable, early stages of life such as larvae or eggs. Scientific research ...
- 466: Landfills: A Growing Menace
- ... and bananas, decades old, have been recovered from landfills, still recognizable in their mummified state [Rathje 111-12]. What little decomposition does occur in landfills generates vast amounts of methane gas, one of the significant greenhouse effect gasses. Some landfills have built-in processes to reclaim the methane from the atmosphere. The Fresh Kills landfill pipes methane gas directly into 12,000 homes, but in most instances the gas is either burned ...
- 467: The Government's Spending Plan To Reduce The Budget Deficit
- ... Monroe Evening News, Karl Zeisler. In his article "Who Wants Taxes Cut," (October, 1945) Zeisler makes a persuasive argument against the low-tax lobby and the low-tax ethic itself. Zeisler's argument is, in effect, that in government as in business you get what you pay for--and in the case of taxes, he theorizes, the more citizens pay on a local level the more likely they will be to ... Monroe Evening News, Karl Zeisler. In his article "Who Wants Taxes Cut," (October, 1945) Zeisler makes a persuasive argument against the low-tax lobby and the low-tax ethic itself. Zeisler's argument is, in effect, that in government as in business you get what you pay for--and in the case of taxes, he theorizes, the more citizens pay on a local level the more likely they will be to ... Monroe Evening News, Karl Zeisler. In his article "Who Wants Taxes Cut," (October, 1945) Zeisler makes a persuasive argument against the low-tax lobby and the low-tax ethic itself. Zeisler's argument is, in effect, that in government as in business you get what you pay for--and in the case of taxes, he theorizes, the more citizens pay on a local level the more likely they will be ...
- 468: Hemp
- ... loss of revenue from an easily managed crop that can be grown relatively close to the urban centres where the products will be used. HEMP AS A SOURCE OF FUEL To stop and reverse the greenhouse effect, world energy production must return to using fresh biomass as the raw material for all fuel currently made from fossil biomass. The only way to stop the CO 2 build-up in the atmosphere is ...
- 469: Crusades 4
- ... of military expeditions were fought to take back the Holy Land, Jerusalem, from the Seldjuk Turks. There were eight crusades which were spurred for many different reasons by many different people that left a lasting effect to the world. These years of bloodshed were led by men of power to bring money, greed, and fame to themselves at the expense of others. Although it brought a lasting uneasiness between the two ... economic growth of the Genoa, Venice, and Pisa. Although the great wealth and growing population made this war possible, the Crusades certainly enhanced trade, but did not revive it. The Crusades had one other strong effect on Europe, it managed to reduce the number of quarrelsome and contentious knights. The Crusades provided an outlet for knights to become one and fight for a common good. The monarchs were able to consolidate ... trade between the West and the East. Many rulers came along and fought for their own causes, but known were successful. These Holy Wars aided in the shaping of European History and left a lasting effect on the world.
- 470: Juvenile Crime
- ... factors associated with juvenile crime are poverty, repeated exposure to violence, drugs, easy access to firearms, unstable family life and family violence, delinquent peer groups, and media violence. Especially the demise of family life, the effect of the media on the juveniles today, and the increase of firearms available today have played a big role in the increase of juveniles crimes. The most common risk factor is the demise of the ... delinquency such as mothers who drink alcohol or take drugs during pregnancy cause their babies to grow up with learning disorders, a problem which leads them to be juvenile criminals. Another risk factor is the effect of the media on the juveniles of today. Before the time a child has reached seventh grade, the average child has witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence on the television. There ... possession of firearms plays a big cause in the delinquency of children and is playing a bigger role in the crimes which juveniles commit. Another cause of the increase of juvenile crimes has been the effect of children seeing multiple murders and other acts of violence on the television. Finally the demise of the family life and the increase in family violence has been the biggest factor in the increase ...
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