... of shopowners scurry between their gutted businesses and the river in a desperate attempt to wash and salvage their goods. A muddy valley runs past the Central Prison, where some of the incarcerated swam to freedom as Mitch's floodwaters rose and propelled them over the walls. Hundreds of homes, streets, and businesses were washed away, and those that remained standing found themselves anchored beneath several feet of mud and debris. In some places, the stench is overpowering. The smell from intermingled garbage, rotting food, rancid floodwater, animal and -- very possibly -- human corpses fills the air. Yet still people work near the water, cle ...
... blue. Normally, all colors of the spectrum are able to be matched by mixtures of only three color sensitivities. Therefore, the huge variety of colors we see are a response to different compositions of wavelengths of light. The rods are responsible for encoding white and black. results when one or more of the cone cells fail to function properly. One of the visual pigments may be functioning abnormally, or be absent altogether. There are several different types of , however, complete , or achromatopsia, is probably the simplest to understand. This is the rarest form of . This is when no colors can be seen at all. The color receptors are almost completely ...
... Millis (a scientist, and leader of NASA’s Breakthrough Physics Propulsion lab) said, "The ideal interstellar propulsion system would be one that could get you to other stars as quickly and comfortably as envisioned in science fiction. Before this can become a reality, three scientific breakthroughs are needed: discovery of a means to exceed light speed, discovery of a means to propel a vehicle without propellant, and discovery of a means to power such devices. Why? - Because space is big, really, really, really big." (Why is Interstellar) For any human to ever reach another star, speeds greater than comprehension would be needed. Millis illustrates this idea o ...
... common is bronchial asthma. Medical definitions of asthma suggest that environmental triggers can substantially contribute to the occurrence of an asthma attack. The review of asthma in Victoria (1988) by the Asthma Foundation of Victoria outlined infection, exercise, climatic conditions, exposure to airborne irritants and emotional upsets as the main trigger factors. However, doctors use a general classification to identify a patients pattern of asthma…classifying people who experience some symptoms of asthma on most days as having a chronic asthma condition. The classification system also extends to the categories of children, occupational asthma and asthma in ...
... With DSL, the normal speed is 384 kb/s with the max at 1.1 Mb/s (megabits per second). With DSL, one's computer could be online at all times. There would be no busy signals or dial-in hassles. If someone wanted to look something up on the internet real quick or check their mail, all they would have to do is start their internet browser or email client and they would be set. DSL wouldn't only make our internet experience more enjoyable, but it would also improve the quality and reliability of normal phones. The digital format would be able to reproduce sound quality with great fidelity. Static-filled and "noisy" phone lines would be a thing of the past allow ...
... that the agreement will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and will prevent global warming. Science Is global warming occurring? - According to Accu-Weather, the world's leading commercial forecaster, "Global air temperatures as measured by land-based weather stations show an increase of about 0.45 degrees Celsius over the past century. This may be no more than normal climatic variation...and several biases in the data may be responsible for some of this increase." - Satellite data indicate a slight cooling in the climate in the last 18 years. These satellites use advanced technology and are not subject to the "heat island" effect around maj ...
... Two separate processes result in the deposit of this sand and sediment on the shore. Most sediment is suspended in sea water and transported along the coast by the longshore current, a stream of water flowing parallel to the beach that is created by the action of waves breaking at an angle to shore. Longshore transport can deliver up to a million cubic yards of sediment annually to a single beach. In the second process, sand deposited onshore by the longshore current is then oscillated by waves breaking onto and receding from the beach. This continual onshore-offshore movement gradually pushes the sand along the beach edge. both the longshore transport of sedim ...
... it is electrically neutral. The electrons have discrete kinetic energy levels, which increase with the orbital radius. When atoms bond together to form a solid, the electron energy levels merge into bands. In electrical conductors, these bands are continuous but in insulators and semiconductors there is an "energy gap", in which no electron orbits can exist, between the inner valence band and outer conduction band [Book 1]. Valence electrons help to bind together the atoms in a solid by orbiting 2 adjacent nucleii, while conduction electrons, being less closely bound to the nucleii, are free to move in response to an applied voltage or electric field. The fewer cond ...
... Most often, the entire genome isn't transferred. The bacterial genome that is delivered can be measured in minutes from the origin of transfer. That is, the amount of time it takes for a particular gene to be transferred from one bacterium to another indicated how far it is from the origin of replication. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Media Preparation: The starting material was Medium 56-glucose agar (MM560). The components of the MM56 are found in figure 1. From this, we made two types of media, complete and selective. The reagents used, along with their stock and final concentrations are found in figure 2. The formula: Stock volume = [(Final concentration)(final volume ...
... posses an ideal vision of life on Mars. The Russians pride themselves for their excellent space survival. Unfortunately, the country does not have the funds to carry out their survival plans. Lastly, many believe an American flag should be placed on the planet of Mars. The Americans have greatly contributed to the findings on Mars; they have helped figure out that the temperature is cool and that the atmosphere is thin. America’s NASA deeply desires for Mars to be a useful planet. Many take-offs have been launched in recent years to carry out this goal. Mar’s Direct is one plan where a rocket to Mars was to exploit the local resources on the planet. U ...
