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- 1281: Astronomy And Space Science: Your Bones in Space
- Astronomy And Space Science: Your Bones in Space SIG Hypogravitational Osteoporosis: A review of literature. By Lambert Titus Parker. May 19 1987. (GEnie Spaceport) Osteoporosis: a condition characterized by an absolute decrease in the amount of bone present to a level below which it is capable of maintaining the structural ...
- 1282: The Application of Fractal Geometry to Ecology
- ... computers, fractal geometry will become an even more important tool for ecologists and biologists. Some future applications of fractal geometry to ecology include climate modeling, weather prediction, land management, and the creation of artificial habitats. Literature Cited Marcia, L. 1991. The Fractal Explorer. Dynamic Press. Santa Cruz. Gautestad, A. O., Mysterud, I. 1993. Physical and biological mechanisms in animal movement processes. Journal of Applied Ecology. 30:523-535. Horgan, J. 1988 ...
- 1283: The Praying Mantis
- ... the collection of mantid species make up the Mantidae family of insects. The Mantidae family, in turn, is part of the order/suborder Mantodea that includes a variety of mantid-like species. But the existing literature does not reflect a clear consensus about what insect order Mantodea belong in. Some have placed Mantodea in the Dictyoptera Order-with the roaches. Others place Mantodea in the Orthoptera Order-with crickets and grasshoppers ...
- 1284: Genetic Observations Through The Studies of Hybrid Corn, Single Gene Human Traits, and Fruit Flies
- ... eyed females and white-eyed males. Throughout the genetics lab each purpose was determined and explained. A lot was learned about Mendel, genetics, and the hereditary process that makes us who we are today. Cited Literature Campbell, N.A. 1996. Biology. The Benjamin Cummings Publishing Co., New York, pp. 238- 279. Corcos, Alain F. and Floyd V. Monaghan. 1993. Gregor Mendels Experiments on Plant Hybrids. Rutgers University Press, New Jersey ...
- 1285: 11th Century Scotland and Witchcraft
- ... own variations of certain amulets. A few common phrases, symbols, and signs that we use today are also used in 11th century Scotland. Often such things are often seen in horror movies or pieces of literature, such as Macbeth. In Shakespeares Macbeth, you are introduced to three witches, in the first scene of act 1, they are described to be ugly beings with no definite determination of gender. While researching ...
- 1286: Religions' Views on Life After Death
- ... Adhonay (the Lord) (Eerdmans' Handbook 33). The earliest account of Hinduism dates back to 1500 B.C. when men and women sacrificed animals as a normal way of approaching God or the gods. The earliest literature of this account was written in the Vedas. The Vedas were then used as hymns that the priests chanted as the sacrificed smoke ascended to the gods (Eerdmans' Handbook 32). The Islam religion is directly ...
- 1287: Tactics of a Revolution: The Protestant Reformation
- ... use of the printing press. During the time of Hus and Wyclif, only the wealthy were able to obtain books and/or pamphlets-even the poor that were literate could not afford to purchase the literature. Thanks to the invention of the printing press, the prices of paper and publication went down and literacy spread throughout Eastern Europe. With this advancement, almost anyone could get their hands on a Bible in ...
- 1288: God Changes Throughout The First Books Of The Old Testament
- ... interpretations, stories, and myths collided throughout time, the discontinuity of the Old Testament shows this. The Bible can not be taken as a literal text, but more for personal interpretation. To take this piece of literature ver batum would be overwhelmingly conflicting, and prove nothing.
- 1289: Hinduism
- ... converted into ghats (brick steps), where worshipers bathe in the sacred Ganges. Benares Hindu University is one of India's most prominent seats of learning. Originally known as Kasi, Varanasi is mentioned in late Vedic literature and in the Hindu epics Ramayana and Mahabharata. The city encompasses Sarnath, where Buddha preached his first sermon in about 530 BC. From the fourth to the sixth century AD, Varanasi was a great cultural ...
- 1290: Myth In the Bible
- ... form but is not historical and is not intended to be historical. Through reenactment of the stories we achieve participation in the truth-content and reality-content. Thus there are two forms by which the literature in general can be viewed. The two forms are in dialectical and analogical imagination. Dialectical imagination is to look at something for what it literally is. Generally, Protestants view their bible in this way. Analogical ...
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