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Leona Woods Marshall Libby, who was instrumental in the preparation of the first ever atomic bomb, was an American physicist. She was also part of the research team that built the first nuclear reactor in America. She was mentored by Enrico Fermi, the famous Italian physicist who won the Nobel Prize. She was born in Illinois and completed her BS Degree in chemistry at a young age of 18 (Libby, 1979). Later, Leona wanted to pursue her higher education in physics and approached Robert Mulliken, a future Nobel laureate to become one of his graduate students. He accepted her ...

Terrorism can be simply defined as the use of fear by whatever means to achieve a political objective and therefore includes not only the violence and bombings but also other areas such as cyber terrorism. Following this definition then terrorism can be traced throughout human history with numerous theories used to explore their formation and networking. Due the prevalence of Radical Islamic terrorism in the recent years, a closer examination is necessary to determine the growth and development of these networks. Therefore, in this paper, we shall explore the cold war terrorist networking theory with a comparison with the ...

Ricardo Talancon is a 20-year old student living at home with his six siblings and their mother and father. He is the eldest among his siblings and is the first to finish high school. He is also the first in his family to attend college as he is currently enrolled at UCLA, where he is studying hard to obtain a law degree. Born in the year 1996, Ricardo was initially a Mexican citizen living with his mother and father in a town known as Xico, which is fairly large and prosperous enough. His father supported the family by catering ...

Introduction of disease

Endometriosis is a disorder, which affects the reproductive organs of women. It is a common medical condition that affects the lower abdomen and occurs when the tissue that aligns inside the womb grows outside it. In most cases, it happens without the knowledge of the victim. However, endometriosis can be very chronic, and it is associated with a lot of pain and problems with fertility. The diagnosis of endometriosis can take a long time because many women take the pain for granted like any other normal pain. Until a diagnosis is made, most women try to cope with the ...

Introduction

The Mughal, or also known as the Mogul, is an empire that reigned in India and Pakistan, between the 16th and 17th Centuries. It was discovered in the year 1526 by prince Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur, who was a Chagatai Turkic prince at that time. The Moghul Empire started in the city of Kabul in Afghanistan, which also became the first base of the empire. The rise of the empire was a result of the perpetuating political strife that its founders and leaders had, having an abundance of wealth during their reign. It was an empire found and built upon ...

Modern instances of racism are rather subtle and usually harder to completely analyze from what the victim recounts later. It ranges from a tinge of scorn from the clerk at the usual supermarket to the stench of serious human rights violation by the police. The concept that these acts of racism are isolated and does not signify any underlying pattern was vehemently upheld by many men and women of authority until recently. But as of today, they stand corrected. Even from a passive standpoint, after hearing from a number of such victims, we have come to accept that this ...

INTRODUCTION

World exploration and explorers are always hailed in history books and classes as significant events and people because they have opened doors to new eras of trade, knowledge and information, technology and cultural consolidation. The names Christopher Columbus, Vasco de Gama and Ferdinand Magellan are some of the greatest names in exploration. Countries that have often been associated with historical explorations are Spain, Portugal, Great Britain – in other words, Western countries. A closer scrutiny, however, of historical explorations showed that ancient China conducted explorations and voyages even before these Western countries did in the 15th century. The voyages occurred ...

.GSS 2014 Statistical Analysis: Written up Assignment

Introduction

The GSS 2014 has been established with the view to generate ongoing research data on demographics of the country for social welfare and decision making. The General Social Surveys (GSS) have been conducted by the National Opinion Research Centre (NORC) annually since 1972, except for the years 1979, 1981, and 1992, and biennially beginning in 1994. The GSS surveys are supposed to be part of a social indicator research, applying questionnaire items and wording in order to facilitate time-trend studies. There are a total of 3,842 cases in the data set. ...

Produce the Pearson correlation matrix for all variables except the name of the printer. What are the two strongest relationships shown in the Pearson correlation matrix?

The correlation matrix is given in a table below ("Annotated SPSS Output: Correlation", 2016):

The strongest correlation coefficient is between Text Cost and Color Photo Cost (r=0.606, p=0.017). The next strongest correlation is between Price and Color Photo Time (r=-0.518, p=0.048). There is a strong positive linear relationship between Text Cost and Color Photo Cost. There is a strong negative relation between Price and Color Photo Time. These relationships are one we would expect, because lesser time spent on producing color photo usually costs higher. (b) If ...

It is impossible to underestimate the role of the sleep on the human organism. This biological process determines the working attitudes of a particular individual and brings a sufficient impact on the everyday life. The study collected is associated with exploration of the prevalence and impact of sleep problems on various aspects of people's lives. First of all, it is essential to figure out, what is the average health rate. The sample size if entire survey is 271, and for the question of “Overall how would you rate your general health” (Pallant, 2010) there is one person, who did ...

TSU

Research in Nursing Practice Abstract Patient safety is important not only for patient but also for medical community, and this safety includes the reduction of medical and surgical errors. In the last few years, researchers have started showing great interest in the use of checklists before performing a surgery to reduce surgical errors. Usually, those checklists include the time out process, i.e. a kind of break or pause, before starting any surgical procedure. Those checklists may also include the information of patient, information of site or side, and information of procedure. Before starting any operation, operating staff communicate with ...

Today, the name James Welling is famous due to his skill in photography. However, it turns out that this finest American photographer did not really have a background on photography. A native of Hartford, Connecticut, he was born in 1951 and spent a lot of his childhood near the border of Simsbury. His interest in art was honed in 1963; together with his friend, Julie Post, he pursued to become an artist. By 1965, he enrolled in one of Hartford’s finest arts schools, the Wadsworth Atheneum where he began his first attempt in painting using watercolor pigments as ...

Personal Statement

My greatest wish has been to be part of UCLA and later become a nurse. Nursing falls in line with my intellectual interests and I have always been fascinated by the human body and all its intricacies, how it functions, what happens when it malfunctions, and what is done to restore its health. I majored in neuroscience because it contributes to my understanding of the human body and feeds my interest (Huber 21). This interest also extends outside school. On a monthly basis I read through the American Journal of Nursing, American Journal of Critical Care, and Critical Care Nursing. I ...