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Desktop Videoconferencing
<view this essay>.... can meet "face-to-face" without leaving their offices. It's a unique way to reduce costly and time-consuming travel. It also allows employees to meet "face-to-face" over a desktop PC and share and review documents with colleagues, clients or vendors. You can hold a Desktop Videoconference whenever the need arises, without the time and expense of traveling-or even leaving your desk because it's just like being there in person. in no way takes the place of face to face, but it does offer the convenience of a different means of communication.
Videoconferencing is a type of conferencing in which video cameras and microphones capture sight and sound for transmi .....
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Biology 2
<view this essay>.... were interested in the specifications of the flight-initiating jumps, and also interested about how the bat is able to utilize its wing for more than one purpose such as crawling, or moving without flight.
The hypothesis that was being implemented was that "the wing is expected to have design features that allow both powered flight and the generation of violent jumps." The Demodus rotundus demonstrates intricate movements including flight-initiating jumps and because of this the wing is expected to be engineered for the ability to jump (to initiate flight) and also powered flight.
The prediction that was made for this experiment was that this experiment .....
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BETA PICTORIS: PLANETS? LIFE? OR WHAT?
<view this essay>.... disk around it? the answer is believed to be yes.
Scientists believe that a newly formed star is immediately surrounded by a
relatively dense cloud of gas and dust. In 1965, A. Poveda stated, “That new
stars are likely to be obscured by this envelope of gas and dust (1).” In 1967,
Davidson and Harwit agreed with Poveda and then termed this occurrence, the “
cocoon nebula” (1). Other authors have referred to this occurrence as, a “
placental nebula” (1), noting that it sustains the growth of planetary bodies.
For a long time, even before there was the term cocoon nebula, planetary
scientists knew that a cocoon nebula had surrounded the .....
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Uranium
<view this essay>.... gave uranium its name
from the last planet founded in are solar system at the time, he named it Uran,
which in its final form became uranium, a name which today is known worldwide
while klaproth's own fame has faded. Uranium is as dense as gold. Uranium, was
first prepared with some difficulty, in 1841 by the french chemist Eugène
Peligot, using thermal reaction of tetrachloride with potassium. Later in 1870,
an important fact was established: uranium is the last and heaviest element
present on earth. This was demonstrated by Dimitri Mendeleev in his famous
perodical classification of the elements by chemical properties and increasing
atomic mass. Experim .....
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Millennium Bug
<view this essay>.... This may cause havoc on society, especially now we are so reliant on computers in our everyday lives. As a result the may cause major concerns in health, unemployment, our finance system and personal safety.
Life and death situations could arise as hospital systems such as, life support and machines used to monitor a patients vital signs are among the systems at risk. Australian hospitals believe that as many as 60% of their machines may not work properly when the date rolls over. Local testing has identified the ultrasound machines and central monitors which have exhibited year 2000 failures. There could be significant threats to personal safety, for example .....
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Eagles 2
<view this essay>.... 10 pounds, and have a wingspan of about 6 1/2 feet. Females are larger, some reaching 14 pounds and having a wingspan of up to 8 feet. This striking raptor has large, pale eyes; a powerful yellow beak; and great, black talons. The distinctive white head and tail feathers appear only after the bird is 4 to 5 years old.
Bald eagles are believed to live 30 years or longer in the wild, and even longer in captivity. They mate for life and build huge nests in the tops of large trees near rivers, lakes, marshes, or other wetland areas. Nests are often reused year after year. With additions to the nests made annually, some may reach 10 feet across and weigh as much as .....
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Surface Area To Volume Ratios In Plants (Arid Vs. Moist Environments)
<view this essay>.... area to volume ratio. If weather patterns were to suddenly change due to a global warming trend, how would this affect the plant’s growth and ability to photosynthesize? These are the questions that lie at the basis of the following experiment.
Objective:
To determine how the presence or absence of water in the environment affects the surface area to volume ratios in plants. It is observed that plants in moist environments have more lush, larger foliage, while plants inhabiting desert conditions are generally smaller and have less photosynthetic surface areas.
Hypothesis:
Alternative Hypothesis: states the hypothesis being tested in this exper .....
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Atention Defficit Disorder
<view this essay>.... feel stupid and are often accused of being lazy. Kids with Attention Deficit Disorder tend to daydream allot more than others.
People with ADD are easily distracted and have limited attention spans. They can sit for a while and pay attention if the topic is interesting to them. People with Attention Deficit Disorder usually do this while watching TV, playing Nintendo, and at sporting events. Many ADD children will tell you how annoying it is when someone around them is talking.
People with ADD are impulsive meaning to act without thinking. In one case a five-year old with ADD almost drowned when he went to a pool with his father. He saw people jumping .....
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