Essays on Backman

Introduction

Even though it was primarily developed for military purposes by the US army, the Global Positioning System (GPS) has since had several uses beyond military needs. The most recent one is that it has been found more useful in the scientific study of wildlife distribution than even imagined. As a matter of fact, today, scientific study of wildlife distribution significantly depends on the system. The Global Positioning Technology enables individuals to observe animal behavior from a distance without disturbing their natural behavior, that is to say, animals can be remotely observed without any form of physical involvement. To be ...

The Qatar Stock Market

Before discussing Qatar’s stock market, let us gain some relevant information about the country itself. Qatar is located in the continent of Asia and covers over 11,000 square kilometers of land which makes the country the 168th largest nation when looking at land area. Qatar became an independent state in 1971 gaining its independence from the United Kingdom with a population of 1,951,591 people in 2012. The currency is the Qatari Rial (World Atlas, 2015). When viewing the stock market, there is information that every investor should know about Qatar before investing in the market ...

- Where in the Galaxy is the solar system located? a. in the nucleus, b. in the halo, c. in a spiral arm, d. between two spiral arms) e. in the central bulge

The solar system is placed in a spiral arm, considered the most hospitable region in the galaxy. The spiral arms are where the active stars form and they orbit around the Milky Way galactic center and the solar system joins this orbital trip. According to the latest discoveries, the Milky Way galaxy has only two spiral arms (Scutum – Centaurus and Perseus) as opposed of four previously considered ...

Research paper

Abstract The research paper deals with correlation of asthma risk among adults in Finland as a result of infant RSV bronchiolitis and reduced respiratory health-related quality of life after RSV pneumonia. The research includes the patients participated in different kinds of clinical study such as measurement of lung function, skin prick test, doctor examination, etc. The research group stated the problem to follow up the sequelae of the respiratory syncytial virus lower respiratory tract infection (RSV LRTI) from infant age with asthma, atopy, and lung function in adulthood. The researchers used several tests to give the statistics for the ...

Part 1

Punic Wars Punic wars are the term coined by the historians about the war fought by Rome and the Carthage in 264-146 BC. The result of the Punic Wars is the dominance of the Romans to the large area of the Western Mediterranean basin (Backman, 182). Punic wars have been referenced to the Carthage ancestries since the word Punic comes Latin term “Punicus” which is associated with the Carthaginian Empire. The main reason for the emergence of the Punic wars is the Roman Expansion. which created the conflict between them and the Carthaginian Empire. In the first War, ...

Geographical evidence

- Fossil evidence of Glossopteris flora exists in Pennsylvania and Permian age coal deposits. This is in Africa, India, Australia, and Antarctica (Trent, Hazlett and Bierman 68) - Close fit of the continental coastlines on both sides of the continents. Presence of geological features that were originally shared between the continents. Presence of faulting that leads to the formation of faults such as the San Andreas Fault indicates that continental drift has been taking place over a long period (Holmes 629). - Rocks had retained the record of their positions of when they were formed to indicate that ...

Chapter 4: The Origin of Modern Astronomy (Summary & Reflection)

Chapter 4 of “Astronomy: The Solar System and Beyond” starts with a description of the geocentric view that that the Early Greeks held of the universe. It was Aristotle’s conclusion that the Earth is spherical in shape. In A.D. 140, the Ptolemaic system, a more refined form of the Greeks’ geocentric view, was presented by Claudius Ptolemy. According to Ptolemy, the planets orbited the Earth in epicycles or small circles. It was Nicolaus Copernicus who proposed that the sun is at the center of the universe and the plants orbit around it. Tycho Brahe made the most precise astronomical observations ...