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Humpback Whales
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1252.... during the huge intake of water during filter feeding. They have small, round bumps on the front of the head edging the jaws.
Humpbacks have huge, mottled white flippers with rough edges that are up to one-third of its body length; these are the largest flippers of any whale. The humpback's genus, Megaptera, means "huge-wings," referring to its flippers. The flippers may have barnacles growing on them.
The deeply-notched flukes are up to 12 feet (3.7 m) wide. Humpbacks have a small dorsal fin toward the flukes.
DIET AND BALEEN
Humpback whales (like all baleen whal .....
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Artifical Intelligence
Number of pages: 13 | Number of words: 3402.... Database of information
2. Limited to structured rules
3. Use symbolic representations
F. Case-bases reasoning (CBR)
1. Allows a system to store and analyze data
2. Analyzes each case uniquely
III. How AI can be used
A. Neural Networks
1. Military aircraft
2. S&P index
3. Recognizing new patterns of credit-card fraud
B. Fuzzy logic
1. Washing machines
2. Vacuum cleaners
3. AC's
C. Chaos theory
1. Wall street
2. Ability to predict and diagnose heart disease
D. Expert systems
1. Employee Training
2. Wisdom .....
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How Mountains Are Formed
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 372.... mountains are
formed when one plate pushes or pulls away from another plate. In the Earth,
hot currents of magma or molten rock may well up and crack the weakened
crust above. As the crust cracks, blocks of rock rise or fall forming
Fault-block mountains. Examples of these mountains are the Sierra Nevada in
California and the Grand Tetons in Wyoming. Dome mountains are formed
by the same kind of molten rock that forms Volcanic mountains. As magma
comes up in a crack in the Earth’s crust, it does not come to the surface, but
the molten rock pushes the ground .....
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Hemp
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2153.... It's ironic that we have the opportunity to solve most
of Canada's critical environmental issues in one fell swoop . . . with one
simple plant. It is ignorance and the maintenance of the status quo that has
blinded and crippled our ability to realize this resource.
INTRODUCTION
A plant exists that is so strong that it can be grown without requiring
chemicals in almost every part of the world. Many have touted this plant as a
possible way in which to wean society from its dependence on fossil fuels for
energy and the need to log forests for pulp, paper and wood. It is eve .....
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Alcohol Benefits
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 449.... Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas say before you start drinking for your health, talk to your doctor. For some people, the risks of alcohol outweigh the benefits. And remember that while one drink a day can be helpful, more can be harmful.
Could a drink a day keep the doctor away? One study says alcohol can have beneficial effects. Doctors recently determined that people who drank moderately, about one or two drinks per day, had a lower chance of developing blocked arteries in their legs. This condition results when the arteries in the legs become hardened.
Researchers are .....
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Dvd
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 511.... the DVD-ROM drive is the fact that it is backward compatible with standard CD-ROM and CD audio discs.
DVD-RAM
DVD-RAM stands for Digital Versatile Disc - Random Access Memory, and is the approved format by the Official DVD Forum. DVD-RAM are dual sided and can hold up to 2.6 gigabytes per side. They use phase-change as a recording material, “wobbled land and groove” recording method, embossed pits for header information, Zoned Constant Linear Velocity (ZCLV) rotational control, and is a random-access, non-sequential medium. DVD-RAM-Compatible readers will require s .....
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Asimov On Chemistry By Isaac Asimov
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1067.... does he start to mention a element a french chemist
belived to be new or maybe just a heavier from of nitrogen. Inert gases and
there liquefaction points are then listed along when they when fisrt liquefied
by a chemist. Welcome, Stranger!
This talks about the rarest of stable enert gases, xenon. It also tells
why that in 1962 so many expirements were done involving this gas. Fisrt it
defines the word gas, and talks about different types in about four pages. Thens
he talks about how it is combined with flourine to form a poison.
Death in the Labratory
Here Asimov talk .....
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Diamonds
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 477.... , and Boron a blue shade. The pink color in some are thought to be caused by deformation of the atomic structure of the diamond crystal. A pure Diamond , which would be 100% carbon, is colorless
were created million years ago, when the earth was formed, the material experienced pressure of 5million times the atmosphere at sea level and temperatures between 1000~1200degreesC. These conditions caused carbon in the layers inside the planet to crystallize into . The moved up to the earth’s surface through volcano eruptions. This is why many Diamond mines are near volcanoes. .....
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