The Telephone
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Phones have been integral to the evolution of communications and can be considered to have been the most prominent icon of interpersonal interactions over long distances. From the moment Alexander Graham Bell say those famous words to Thomas Watson over the first incarnation of the telephone...
Skeletal Radiology and Bone Growth
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Biology
Radiographic examination is the key to the diagnosis of many skeletal abnormalities. It is essential that each bone be examined in its entirety, including the cortex, medullary canal (cancellous bone or spongiosa), and articular ends. The position and alignment of joints are determined. In...
PERCOCET: How it works
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Medical studies
Percocet is a well known pain killer used to treat pain for moderate to severe sufferers of a wide variety of ailments. Percocet, or similarly composed products containing narcotics, are prescribed by doctors quite often for various forms of serious pain (ranging from severe, chronic, cases such...
Business plan: the Wifi car system
Business plan - 14 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
It is important to choose the right time to start a company, because it is function of the economy. In fact, it is easier to start a company when the economy is bad, as the company will be able to commence its functions when the economy re-starts. In this case, we will study the feasibility of...
Enhancement of a module for the vizualization of multilayer single-domain competititvity
Practical guide - 41 pages - Computer science
Distributed applications such as Grid Computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), may benefit from the capability of monitoring (dynamically requesting and displaying the status of a network) for management purposes. This document presents the enhancement of a graphical tool named NetView...
Blood Extraction and Cell Sorting Integrated on Single MEMS Device
Essay - 17 pages - Biology
A Lab-on-chip using MEMS fabrication technology concepts, has been the focus of many different research groups in the past decades. This research topic has been investigated extensively to identify the many advantages that a lab-on-chip device can potentially offer to the medical field. MEMS...
How WEB2 concepts can benefit each stage of the Price Waterhouse Cooper's model ?
Essay - 16 pages - Computer science
The Internet was originally a tool for scientists and military personnel to share information rapidly. However, it has progressively become a tool for both individual users and companies to communicate more efficiently, and to create new relationships (customers, distributors?). The number of...
Bill Gates
Essay - 10 pages - Computer science
On October 28, 1955, shortly after 9:00 p.m., William Henry Gates III was born. He was born into a family with a rich history in business, politics, and community service. His great-grandfather had been a state legislator and mayor, his grandfather was the vice president of a national bank, and...
Mathematical Solution for the attitude of Phoenix lander's radar (rapport de stage)
Internship report - 27 pages - Mathematics
I was very lucky to go to the United States and finally get this kind of an internship because, I had been given the opportunity to work in one of the most productive scientific sector of the country, The Californian Institute of Technology. This American college is one of the research centres of...
Software business models for AUTOSAR automotive world standard (rapport de stage, 2006)
Internship report - 12 pages - Computer science
AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open Standard ARchitecture) is a promising initiative that aims at establishing open standards for automotive E/E architecture. AUTOSAR compliant basic software ensures independency of the application software from the underlying hardware and allows modularity as well as...
Causes and consequences of obesity
Case study - 8 pages - Medical studies
Obesity is a disease of excess body fat characterised by a Body Mass Index of 30 and more. Obesity is caused by simple factors like, environmental factors, psychological, social and cultural and behavioural factors. Nevertheless, there are other factors, for example, genetic causes. But the...
Analysis of an Association between Nicotine Dependence and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Essay - 5 pages - Biology
The goal of this paper is to evaluate the significance of the co-morbidity of nicotine abuse in adolescents afflicted with ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). Due to the nature of the disorder and its possible underlying pathophysiology of dopaminergic dysfunction, the use of...
Is the Dingo a true Aussie specie? Managing the Dingo (Canis lupus dingo): Conflict between the anthropogenic and environmental factors
Essay - 6 pages - Biology
According to Aboriginal myths and legends, the dingo (Canis lupus dingo) would have evolved in Australia from the “Dreaming” - the creation period - and have always been a highly estimated and valued companion. As a consequence of these oral memories and scarce testimonies of the past,...
Novel pressure-relief wheelchair: research paper
Tutorials/exercises - 30 pages - Biology
Pressure sores are painful and debilitating tissue wounds which commonly affect wheelchair users. Current treatment of pressure sores requires bed-rest for up to sixteen weeks, which is unacceptable for patients with active life-styles. The purpose of our project is to design a wheelchair that...
Immersion Lithography : Promises, Challenges, and Solutions
Essay - 22 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
This paper will introduce lithography, and the issues that are contributing to the development of immersion lithography. We will explain the advantages of immersion lithography and its problems, and try to consider its future. Immersion Lithography is an optical lithography technique that...
Wind & Solar power generation system
Essay - 8 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
This report contains the procedure which was followed by a group of senior students from Virginia Tech's electrical engineering department to set up a lab where one may study the combination of wind and solar power generation. Throughout this report, the basics of wind and solar energies used...
Gamma ray spectroscopy using a scintillator detector
Essay - 8 pages - Physics
The aim of the experiment is to learn about the basic techniques of gamma ray energy spectroscopy and the interpretation of a spectrum, using a NaI(TI) detector. We obtained the spectra of two gamma sources using a spectrometer and the Maestro program. We also computed the energy resolution of...
Acupuncture - publié le 07/01/2008
Essay - 5 pages - Medical studies
The term acupuncture comes from Latin acus which means “needle” and pungere which means “prick”. In China, the practice of acupuncture can perhaps be traced as far back as the first millennium BC and archeological evidence has been identified during the period of the Han...
The Obesity Factor
Essay - 3 pages - Medical studies
As Becky waits for the bus on a chilly Thursday night she paces back and forth in anticipation. Stressing over why the bus is taking so long, she feels a pang of hunger in her stomach and realizing that she hasn't got anything at home to eat, she decides to quickly run across the street and grab...
E-mail: Use It or Lose It?
Essay - 2 pages - Computer science
Individuals living in today's modern world have differing opinions concerning the so-called advantages of new technology that is available to us. Some are pro- innovation and believe that it has had a positive effect on our lives, while others believe that new technology has negatively influenced...
Concentration/evaporation of the juices
Essay - 15 pages - Biology
The fruit juice processing industry is one of the world's major agro-based businesses. Orange juice is the dominant juice trade worldwide. Juice is a liquid naturally contained in vegetable or fruit tissue. Juice may be supplied in concentrate form. Generally, concentrates have a noticeably...
As a result of the practice of organ transplantation, do we ultimately require a re-thinking of the meaning of death?
Essay - 7 pages - Medical studies
Ever since its inception in the 1950s, organ transplantation has been accompanied by questions about the ethics of taking organs from the dead and living and giving them to others. Discussions abound among physicians, ethicists, policy makers, and the public. At first living and willing relatives...
Water Research Project
Case study - 4 pages - Biology
The human body is composed of 50-80% water. Blood and muscles contain significant amounts, and approximately 95% of the brain is water. All body systems and organs need water to function properly, and will shut down without it. Most of the chemical reactions that take place in our body need water...
Face Value: The Complexities of Genetic Engineering
Essay - 2 pages - Biology
Society is no stranger to technology - it has been adapting it and advancing it for decades. Technology has completely revolutionized the way we interact each other as well as ourselves. Due to this complete integration, there has been an addiction formulated. Human beings now thrive on...
Natural Selection vs. Divine Creation
Essay - 3 pages - Biology
From the beginning of the ideas presented by Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species, and their gaining support from the scientific community, the theory of evolution was been met with opposition. A great deal of this opposition came from religious groups who believed in a creation from a divine...
Information System's Theory
Essay - 2 pages - Computer science
Karl E. Weick is one of the most influential people when it comes to organizational strategy and information systems. He was born on October 31, 1936 in Warsaw, Ind. and has served as a theorist and information specialist for many years, most recently at the University of Michigan (where he...
Effects of Road Salt on Germination and Growth
Tutorials/exercises - 11 pages - Biology
This report examined the effects of road salt in relation to growth and germination in the Brassica rapa, a common turnup flower. The initial questions considered if the salt would actually affect the growth. There were four groups of plants which were collected. The groups included a control...
Results and Figures of Salt on Germination and Growth
Essay - 3 pages - Biology
Finding the effects of salt on germination and growth of plants took twenty-two days of research. Each collection day the height, height of the leaf, color, height of the node, number of buds, and the number of the flowers were taken into account. Based on the original hypothesis stating that the...
Brassica Rapa in Comparison With Sodium Chloride
Essay - 4 pages - Biology
In this study the Brassica Rapa will be tested to see if salt water effects it's growth. Data will be taken from four different types of groups: distilled water; 0.25% of sodium chloride; 1.00% of sodium chloride; and 4.00% of sodium chloride. Data will be collected in a twenty-two day span,...
Étude du rôle d'un gène jouant un rôle potentiel dans la voie de signalisation de Hedgehog chez la drosophile
Case study - 7 pages - Biology
Nous allons nous concentrer ici sur la voie de signalisation de Hedgehog (Hh) chez la Drosophile. Hh est connu pour être l'un des gènes de polarité des segments exprimés durant la phase tardive du développement embryonnaire de Drosophila melanogaster. Les gènes de polarité des segments sont...
