literature for children each year. Upon reading “Number the Stars” by Lois Lowry‚ the Newbery Medal winner in 1990‚ one can easily understand why this great novel won the coveted John Newbery Medal. There are many reasons as to why “Number the Stars” obtained the Newbery Medal but two main reasons stick out: The use of italics as a descriptive device‚ and the central theme pertaining to the difficulties of growing up. Firstly‚ Lois Lowry’s “Number the Stars” focuses on Annemarie Johansen‚ a young
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The Inaba text describes the phenomenon of "therapeutic index." Addiction to barbiturates can be critical in terms of lethality as measured by the therapeutic index. Describe how this phenomenon might lead to an accidental overdose. Why is this factor more critical with barbiturates than with other classes of depressant drugs? Barbiturates are nonselective central nervous system (CNS) depressants‚ capable of producing all degrees of depression from mild sedation and hypnosis to general anesthesia
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Objective The objective of this experiment is to understand reflection and refraction and how they vary with different matters. At the end of this experiment‚ you will be able to: Determine index of refraction of various solutions Recognize the passage of refracted beams though different medium Understand the concept of Snell’s Law Understand how the speed of electromagnetic waves in different matters are related Determine the critical angle for total internal reflection Materials 550
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the feature in the data that we have complied is using the value of the sum of exports and imports divided by GDP times hundred. With this resource we found that the average of trade in Singapore‚ 334‚ is the highest number after Singapore separated from Malaysia in 1965. The trends of Singapore have stably increased during fifty years but it has suddenly dropped a little bit from 2009. (Refer to Appendix A and D). Although the average of trade in Hong Kong‚ 232‚ is lower than Singapore‚ Hong Kong
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step index fiber It is an optical fiber which has a core of constant refractive index.there are two types of step index fibers:single mode si and multi mode si fiber single mode step index fiber has only one mode of EM propagation (HE11) an has a core diameter of about 8-12 Um. and multi mode si has many mode of propagation and has a core of diameter of about 50 Um which allow many no of modes through it. single mode step index has an adv of lower inter modal dispersion as there is only
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wavelength of light. Because the velocity of light in air is always greater than that through a liquid‚ the refractive index is a number greater than 1; for example‚ hexane n20D 1.3751. The superscript 20 indicates that the measurement was made at 20 oC‚ and the subscript D refers to the yellow D-line of a sodium vapor lamp‚ light with a wavelength of 589 nm. The measurement is made with a refractometer using a few drops of liquid. Compensation is made within the instrument for the fact that white
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Learning is not only an essential skill to survive‚ it is also a requirement to attain a fulfilled life. Yet the public education system‚ where the majority of people are expected to learn‚ often overlook the process of learning. It is no wonder why one of the most accomplished thinkers‚ Albert Einstein‚ has said‚ “the only thing that interferes with my learning is my education” (qtd. In Silber 130). This quote embodies the current state of public education in the United States; a system that approaches
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to determine the angle of minimum deviation. To find out the refractive index of various liquids using a Hollow Prism. INTRODUCTION: This project is of Investigatory Type. In this project‚ a hollow prism has been used to calculate the refractive index of various liquids. The hollow prism is filled with liquid and then the experiment
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Introduction: Stock index is very much important leading indicator which can be used for several purposes. It can be used as a benchmark to judge the performance of professional money managers. It can be used to facilitate the establishment and maintenance of several types of index fund and exchange traded fund (ETF). Securities analysts‚ portfolio managers‚ and academicians doing research use stock market indexes to examine the factors that influence aggregate security price movements and to
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Trend Article Analysis The following essay will touch on the journal article titled Publication trends in behavioral gerontology in the past 25 years: are the elderly still an understudied population in behavioral research?‚ in which the researchers will attempt to answer the question of gerontology and whether it is an understudied and underreported research topic within the field of behavioral research. The goal of the essay is to determine the research article methodology‚ procedures and
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