Lab Report: Hand warmer
Thesis - 8 pages - Physics
Various chemicals were tested for use in a hot pack, and calcium chloride was found to be the most desirable. A very cheap and effective hot pack design was made from a Ziploc bag and duct tape, which insulates the pack and helps keep it warm for longer. Another type of bag, a breakable...
Report: Pottery Glaze
Thesis - 6 pages - Physics
A combination of research and laboratory experimenting were used to determine which of the four suggested compounds was most suitable for a ceramic pottery glaze. The melting and boiling points of the compounds were researched, and the color of crystal and solution, conductivity, and solubility...
Report: Pest Eliminator
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
Spectrophotometry and a Beer's Law plot were applied to determine the concentration of a solution of chromium(III) nitrate with unknown concentration supplied by the company Pest Eliminator. A quadratic data set was re-expressed into a linear data set, which was then analyzed with a linear model;...
Report: Mercury in Fluorescent Lights
Thesis - 3 pages - Physics
Fluorescent lights in the Westford Academy science wing were checked for the presence of mercury. A spectrometer was used instead of a physical means, since this is the most economical and efficient solution. The wavelengths of the lines seen when the spectroscopes were pointed at the desired...
Metaphysics- Is water necessarily identical to H2O?: An argument
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
Kripke holds that the declaration “water is identical to H2O” is necessarily true. According to Kripke, this true statement is only knowable through experience (a posteriori), and cannot be determined by definitions of words only. Even though it is only a posteriori, Kripke claims that...
Brain Swapping: Identity, Transformation and what matters in Survival
Book review - 6 pages - Medical studies
So here is your story: you are fairly unhappy with your life and who you are at present. You have always thought yourself to be a bit too tall and lanky, a little lacking on physical endurance, and much too emotionally sensitive. You feel that you have a few intellectual shortcomings as well,...
Analyzing Darwin's theory of evolution
Essay - 4 pages - Biology
As an intellectual Christian of this century, though I have had some training in biology more-so then the average intellectual, it is hard not to notice the work of Mr. Charles Darwin and the well detailed and grounded system of evolution. But he has made some major errors in his concept of man....
Data warehousing
Essay - 3 pages - Computer science
A data warehouse is a term used to describe the electronically stored data of an organization. These warehouses are important in helping an organization analyze and report on the organization data. It is a process that aims at storing data but it also aims at retrieving, extracting, transforming,...
The best way to manage sex addiction
Essay - 2 pages - Medical studies
Basically, the need for sex is one of the basic human instincts, like eating, drinking, etc. As a basic instinct, in certain limits, the need for sex is necessary and useful for human survival - to breed and continue the lineage. A more practical purpose is to give peace, comfort or pleasure. So,...
The Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's Disease
Case study - 4 pages - Medical studies
I have chosen three academic journal articles and four industry journal articles. The first couple of articles of the 'NY Times' describe the Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease, by elaborating on their causes, symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatments, evolution of the diseases,...
A Guide for your first steps in SEO - publié le 13/06/2011
Thesis - 6 pages - Computer science
The term "search engine" is usually used to describe crawler-based search engines and human-edited web directories. Search engine optimization involves achieving the highest position or ranking practical in the natural or organic listings on the search engine results pages after a specific...
A Guide for your first steps in SEO
Thesis - 6 pages - Computer science
The term "search engine" is usually used to describe crawler-based search engines and human-edited web directories. Search engine optimization involves achieving the highest position or ranking practical in the natural or organic listings on the search engine results pages after a specific...
Motivations [anglais] - candidature Bourse
Sample letter - 1 pages - Computer science
La lettre de motivation est un élément essentiel d'appréciation d'une candidature, au-delà des simples motivations exprimées. Rédiger une lettre académique en anglais relève toujours d'une certaine commodité dans la langue car devant respecter quelques règles. Ce modèle-ci vous...
Definition et attributs d'une lettre de motivation
Sample letter - 1 pages - Computer science
La lettre de motivation est un élément essentiel d'appréciation d'une candidature, au-delà des simples motivations exprimées. Rédiger une lettre professionnelle en anglais relève toujours d'une certaine commodité dans la langue car devant respecter quelques règles. Ce modèle-ci vous...
The Biology of St. John's Wort
Thesis - 2 pages - Medical studies
In a world full of medicine being prescribed to people, there is an element of potential negative impact to the overall makeup of the body's biological structure. Drugs seem to be the end of all, all for our desire to rid ourselves of the many problems we face and have. Our body is naturally...
Exposé d'anglais sur le réchauffement climatique
Essay - 1 pages - Geology
Exposé d'anglais traitant d'un phénomène qui prend de plus en plus d'ampleur dans nos vies : le réchauffement climatique. Ce document est un document totalement en anglais avec introduction, corps et conclusion ainsi de lien débouchant sur des vidéos qui serviront à étoffer votre...
VIRTUAL MEMORY-Peter Denning-Summary
Worksheets - 4 pages - Computer science
This work presents the summary part by part from what I have understood of the Virtual Memory work of Peter DENNING, published in 1970. Introduction : From the beginning of the electronic computing, programmers have had to share hierarchically their computers' memories, at least in two...
QNX-Unix Operating System
Worksheets - 2 pages - Computer science
QNX was born in 1982, from the hands and the brains of two Waterloo university students Dan Dodge and Gordon Bell. It is a Real Time Operating System. Elaborated on an UNIX structure, it is used in the software development, the control of industrial robots, and in onboard computers. Stable,...
geothermal energy
Presentation - 1 pages - Physics
Présentation orale de la géothermie. Ce document en anglais résume la physique utilisée pour produire de la chaleur ou de l'électricité à partir de la chaleur récupérée dans la croute terrestre. Il se pose aussi la question de son application au uk.
South Korea: An Electronics Industry
Thesis - 6 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
On what competitive advantages did South Korea lean to build a successful model of economic development? What factors can make South Korea particularly attractive as a market and as a base for value-added activities? After the war which led to the division of the peninsula and Korea in 1953,...
Innovation: Driver of the American economy
Thesis - 1 pages - Computer science
Let's imagine that a business man is waiting to board at the Kennedy airport. He has bought a cup of Starbucks coffee, then he opens his laptop, thanks to the wireless access, within a few seconds, he connects to the internet. He checks his mailbox. Then he calls his colleague who is in Paris....
Critiquing an academic research-based article Entering the blogsphere some strategies for using blogs in social research, by Nikolas Hookway
Text commentary - 2 pages - Computer science
The article's name is "Entering the blogsphere": some strategies for using blogs in social research. It was written by Nikolas Hookway, a lecturer in the School of Sociology and Social Work at the University of Tasmania. His interests lie in social theory and cultural sociology. It was for a...
The patentability of genes
Dissertation - 19 pages - Biology
As all the novelties, the biotechnological and genetic industry causes problems of intellectual property. Moreover, the genes are very special things, not only because they touch to the living, but because they are carrying hopes (new therapies, drugs...) and fears too (protection of the Human...
Stem cells
Essay - 3 pages - Biology
Presently, stem cells play an important part in the medical world. It's recurrent to hear or read about new researches, discoveries or outstanding accomplishment about stem cells. Through this presentation we will see, successively, in a first part, the definition of stem cells: what they...
Female Sexual Dysfunction
Presentation - 20 pages - Medical studies
Sexual dysfunctions are disorders that make it impossible for a person to have or enjoy intercourse. The term sexual dysfunction means difficult or painful sexual functioning. Some sexual dysfunctions may occur in both sexes,others are unique to one sex. Until fairly recently, it was presumed...
Fiche : The applications of drones
Worksheets - 1 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Présentation en anglais sur les applications civiles et militaires des drones
Case of Phineas Gage
Thesis - 2 pages - Medical studies
The brain in all of its complexity has fascinated philosophers and researchers for hundreds of years. The brain plays a role in all forms of behavior, sensory perception, subjective perception, subjective feeling, thought, and bodily function. The structures of the brain are responsible for...
Phage Therapy: The Last Defense
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
One of the most under researched medical fields in the twentieth century through to the present day is phage therapy. What is phage therapy? Phage is short for ‘bacteriophage' which is a virus that only infects bacteria (Ransford 2008). Increasing antibiotic resistance among several...
Principal causes of atmospheric motion - publié le 14/03/2011
Thesis - 3 pages - Chemistry
All parts of the atmosphere does not receive energy in a homogeneous manner. This difference leads to air motion following the principle that warm air is likely to reach high altitudes due to its low density compared to cool air. The difference in temperature and pressure is one of the key points...
Principal causes of atmospheric motion
Thesis - 3 pages - Physics
All parts of the atmosphere does not receive energy in a homogeneous manner. This difference leads to air motion following the principle that warm air is likely to reach high altitudes due to its low density compared to cool air. The difference in temperature and pressure is one of the key points...
