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Millennium Bug
Number of words: 692 | Number of pages: 3... has identified the ultrasound machines and central monitors which have exhibited year 2000 failures. There could be significant threats to personal safety, for example if an ultrasound wrongly calculated the size of a faetus or administered radiation therapy incorrectly. Also people with heart pace makers could face the possibility of them failing.
Bank accounts could be wiped off the records and ATM's could swallow cards thought to be expired. Computers controlling home loans could strip banks off millions of dollars by resetting mortgage repayment programs back to 1900. Millions of dollars are being poured into rectification programs, by financial institutions. Now the Australian Stock ...
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Comparing Ballistics Of A .30-06 And .270
Number of words: 559 | Number of pages: 3... The expansion is also good, depending on the type of shell tired-used. The kick and distance of the gun are considered to be wonderful because the kick is normal and the distance is better than normal.
The .270 rifle is a reasonably good rifle. This rifle is mainly used in open field shooting as opposed to in brush shooting. The depth and the expansion work together and turn out to be great, especially if soft pointed shells are used. The kick and the distance from the .270 rifle work relatively well as a whole. The
.270 is considered to be a fairly light gun. Even though the gun may be light its shells can push a 150 grain bullet to a range of about 3000 fps (foot pounds ...
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CHEMICAL REACTIONS
Number of words: 874 | Number of pages: 4... reaction combustion of oxygen. He said that combustion was a chemical reaction involving oxygen and another combustible substance, such as wood.
John Dalton, in the early Nineteenth Century, discovered the atom. It gave way to the idea that a chemical reaction was actually the rearrangement of groups of atoms called molecules. Dalton also said that the appearance and disappearance of properties meant that the atomic composition gave the appearance of different properties. He also came up with idea that a molecule of one substance is exactly the same as any other molecule of the same substance.
People like Joseph-Lois Gay-Lussac added to Dalton's concepts with the postulate that th ...
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Nuclear Fusion
Number of words: 886 | Number of pages: 4... Fusion reactions occur at a sufficient rate only at very high temperatures. Over 100 million degrees Celsius is needed for the Deuterium-Tritium reaction, while other reactions require even higher temperatures. (Hotta Labs, Source 1)
The density of fuel ions must be sufficiently large for fusion reactions to take place at the required rate. The fusion power generated is reduced if the fuel is diluted by impurity atoms released from surrounding material surfaces or by the accumulation of Helium "ash" from the fusion reaction. As fuel ions are burnt in the fusion process they must be replaced by new fuel and the Helium ash must be removed. (U.S. Energy Science Program, Source 5)
To fuel ...
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Chlamydia
Number of words: 407 | Number of pages: 2... cause of
death of pregnant teens in the inner city and poor neighborhoods. also causes conjunctitis. This is a swelling of the eyes which can lead to blindness. The bacteria also can lead to pneumonia.
Although it is the most easily treated STI, most people in danger won’t get checked until complications show, and that is why the disease is spread so much. It takes about three weeks for most people to see symptoms. In that time, they have sexual contact with others and not know they are spreading it. This process goes on and on and some day it could turn into an epidemic. This is why it is called the "silent epidemic".
s simple to cure. Physicians prescribe a one day cours ...
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BLACK HOLES
Number of words: 1298 | Number of pages: 5... forces and form a hot core, combined from all the energy of the two gas clouds. This energy produced is so great when it first collides, that a nuclear reaction occurs and the gases within the star start to burn continuously. The Hydrogen gas is usually the first type of gas consumed in a star and then other gas elements such as Carbon, Oxygen, and Helium are consumed. This chain reaction fuels the star for millions or billions of years depending upon the amount of gases there are. The star manages to avoid collapsing at this point because of the equilibrium achieved by itself. The gravitational pull from the core of the star is equal to the gravitational ...
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Large Mouth Bass
Number of words: 1850 | Number of pages: 7... spawn in the spring, when water temperatures begin to move past sixty degrees fahrenheit. The spring spawning urge in a bass is set off by both water temperature and photoperiod. Photoperiod is the proportion of the day in which the bass are exposed to sunlight. As the day light hours grow longer through the spring and early summer, so does the photoperiod. This process affects the temperature of different bodies of water in different ways. Small shallow ponds heat up much earlier in the year. As a result the bass will begin to spawn much earlier than the bass in large lakes. They will also finish earlier. The spawning of bass usually vary from two to four months. The male is the fi ...
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Newton's Method: A Computer Project
Number of words: 372 | Number of pages: 2... an initial guess
close to the root because some functions have multiple roots. Failure to choose
an initial value that is close to the root could result in finding a the wrong
root or wasting a lot of time doing multiple iterations while getting close to
the actual root.
On some occasions, the program cannot find a root to an initial guess
that is placed into the program. In some instances Mathmatica could not find
the root to the function, like if it is a parabola with its vertex is placed
right on the y axis with its roots an equal distance away in both directions.
In a case like this, the computer could not decide which root to work towards so
it gave an indeterminate answer.
A ...
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Jaguars 2
Number of words: 1172 | Number of pages: 5... cubs go go outside the den and follow their mother around. When six months comes and the cubs have learned how to do things the way their mother does, they begin to hunt with their mother. At one year the cubs can now hunt for their own food. Even though they can hunt for their own food they still stay with their mother for a few years before finding their own hunting territory. By three years the cubs have learned enough to where they leave their mother to live on their own.
The jaguar's characteristics are very interesting. Jaguars like to stalk their prey by getting as close to it as possible without being noticed then they attack it. They usually hunt during the night because i ...
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Diabetes 3
Number of words: 769 | Number of pages: 3... Mellitus. Many changes that take place during pregnancy make controlling blood sugar more difficult for a woman who has diabetes. Changes in the levels and types of hormones produced during pregnancy can cause insulin resistance, increasing the body’s requirements for insulin. Poorly controlled diabetes may endanger the fetus as well as the woman. With proper adjustments in insulin the risks lessen. Diabetes increases a pregnant woman’s risk of infection, early labor, and high blood pressure caused by pregnancy. The baby of a diabetic woman may be unusually large at birth. The risk of birth defects is two times higher in babies of women who have diabetes. Most women who have diabet ...
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