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- 5361: Canine Hip Dysplasia
- ... al 1996). Dogs that are diagnosed with CHD often develop osteoarthritis in the shoulder joint as they get older (1996). Prior to the study, the researches believed that shoulder cartilage from a young dog at high risk of CHD would be different to that of a dog at lower risk (1996). The first step of this study was to group the dogs according to risk of developing canine hip dysplasia. Unfortunately ... an early sign of osteoarthritis (1996). The researchers came to the conclusion that the actual content of the cartilage does not vary with increasing risk. One could definitely distinguish between the joints of dogs at high risk and low risk based on the wet weight mentioned above. This difference alone is enough to show early signs of joint degeneration in the shoulder as well as signs for osteoarthritis (1996). Muscle mass ...
- 5362: BEHIND THE SCENES
- ... a timeworn issue re-plays itself like a tired re-run of “The Honeymooners.” Does the media go too far? Maybe. But like any other commodity, supply and demand go hand and glove. Whether a high profile celebrity or an every-day Joe, we sit glued to our chairs as the nightly news somberly announces society’s latest barbarity. We eagerly snatch up the tabloids as these mudslingers breathlessly divulge their ... are primarily marketing vehicles, and it’s up to editors and programmers to divine and manipulate the fantasies and fetishes of the market in order to sell the media product. The financial stakes are too high to permit the media managers to make news decisions on any other basis but sales. The line between news and entertainment was erased long ago. The line is now between what will sell and what ...
- 5363: The Vietname War in "America's Australia: Australia's America" and "Into the Dark House"
- ... democracy was not. This image was exactly the public relations image the American Department of Defense (DOD) was trying to sell back home. In the early years, (1961-1966) support for involvement in Vietnam was high, Politicians in Australia knew the value of supporting the effort - to keep American influence in the area high and conversely keep the Communists out. However by '66' (just one year after troops were committed in combat roles) public support was waning and the American and Australian people began to call for a tactical ...
- 5364: Psychological Bond Between Infants and Parents
- ... since before birth. He is studying mother-infant attachment and multiple developmental measures such as the kids' expectations from relationships with parents and friends. He's also analyzes the children's life stress, success in school and peer relationships (Azar, 1995). Sroufe, has found that even though these adolescence lead unstable lives, if they had a secure mother-infant attachment they were likely to be self reliant into adolescence, have lower rates of psychopathology, enjoy successful peer relationships through age 16 and do well in school, especially in math at all ages. Sroufe does not think that infant attachment affects aptitude, but rather it affects confidence attitude, and achievement (Azar, 1995). Mothers of more inhibited children differed dramatically in how they ...
- 5365: Charles Dicken's Novels: Literary Criticism
- ... Every one of these authors left a mark on the young mind of Charles Dickens which is easy to see in his style and attitude throughout writings (Carey 6). During this time Dickens started attending school where he excelled and pleased his father greatly. Although he was a solitary child, Dickens was observant and good natured and often participated in different comical routines for the class. Looking back on this period ... difficulties, the Dickens family was forced to move into a shabby suburb of Camden Town. This move must have shown the family how good they had it back in Chatham. There Dickens was removed from school and forced to work degrading menial jobs in an effort to help his struggling father put food on the table. Dickens was put to work in a blackening factory among many rough and cruel employees ...
- 5366: Paul Ehrlich
- ... owned a small distillery. Ehrlich had an Orthodox Jewish upbringing in a time when being a Jew was controversial. B. Childhood When Ehrlich was six years old he started his schooling at the local primary school. At age ten, he boarded with a professor’s family in Breslau and went to St. Maria Magdalena Humanistic Gymnasium. Ehrlich was often at the top of his class and his best subjects were math ... of Biology Most of Ehrlich’s discoveries had something to do with the immune system. The immune system is a body system that is responsible for destroying disease-causing cells. When Ehrlich was still in school, he was staining white blood cells to see their different characteristics with his work on antibodies, he is knows as the “founder” of modern chemotherapy. If Ehrlich had not learned about the immune system, then ...
- 5367: Pablo Friere
- ... or give our opinions to given facts/information. This is what makes the educator the oppressor and us the oppressed. Paulo Freire's "Pedogogy of the Oppressed" deals with the concept of oppression in the school system and suggests an alternative method of education. There is an absolute need for students to "Tear down the wall" (Pink Floyd) of conformity in education and express their individuality. Education in itself can be ... other words, based on the "banking concept", students are told what to learn and expected to learn it. Being told what to learn creates a necessity to rely on an authoritative figure not only in school but also in life, and reject responsibility. This is what the "oppressors" want, the "oppressed" who rely on authority and reject responsibility because that puts everyone under some form of power, and the "oppressed" are ...
- 5368: New Jersey During the Revolution
- ... were common throughout the war. After the battle of Yorktown in Virginia, the regular troops just watched each other, but the bitter struggle between loyalist and patriot groups continued, and the hatred between sides remained high even after the war. NJ made important contributions of war material such as raw iron and worked iron, including field pieces, muskets, and shot, salt, gunpowder, and cloth. The British had prohibited manufacturing, and these ... for Asgill, but the British refused to turn them over. They held a trial of the officer responsible, who was found Not Guilty, as he was under orders of the Loyalist Council, a group of high ranking loyalist in New York. The British broke up the Loyalist group and sent most to England. Washington, the war almost over, had no reason or desire to hang Asgill, but could not get Congress ...
- 5369: Life In The British Colonies
- ... reading and writing. At age 12 or 13, children might attend special town schools. After that boys went to college in Britain or in the colonies. At age 12 or 13, girls stopped going to school. There were no schools for servants or slaves. I think it must be very hard to work on a plantation beacuse it is hard to keep it running correctly. I am happy our country does not have slaves. I think that the girls should have been able to go to school to.
- 5370: Lasers 2
- ... been used, to drill holes in diamonds, to shape machine tools, to trim microelectronics , to heat treat semiconductor chips, to cut fashion patterns, to synthesize new material. The powerful short laser pulse also makes possible high-speed photography with an exposure time ofseveral trillionths of a second. Lasers have been used by car manufacturers to measure wind speed to test the wind resistance of a new car design. A laser beam ... on a volcano in California, it helps scientists to tell when the volcano will erupt. Communication Laser light can travel a large distance in outer space with little reduction in signal strength. Because of its high frequency, laser light can carry 1000 times the television channels than is carried today by microwaves. Lasers are ideal for space communications. Optical fibers have been developed to transmit laser light for earthbound communication in ...
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