March 26‚ 2013 Lecture -The function of the eye is to convert photons of light into action potentials (nerve impulses). -The inner layer is a nervous tunic (made out of nerve cells)=retina. -Refraction: Bends light. -The purpose of the cornea and the lens is to take an object and focus every little detail of the object on the retina on the back of the lens. Upside down and backwards. -When light goes through medias‚ it bends. -Lens are suspended by ligaments behind the pupil. Suspensory ligaments
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Romancing the Brick wall in Pausch’s Heart When I read the pages 57 – 79 in Pausch’s (2008) The Last Lecture‚ I was surprised and impressed by his expression to his great wife. Even though he continued to love his wife‚ Jai‚ he sometimes felt her to get over such obstructions as a big wall and formidable things. He wrote‚ “The most formidable brick wall I ever upon in my life was just five feet‚ six inches tall‚ and was absolutely beautiful. But it reduced me to tears‚ made me reevaluate my entire
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Astronomy/Origins 2B03 “The Big Questions” Lecture #34 What makes a particle “elementary” ? • A particle is elementary if it has no inner structure (i.e not “made” of some even smaller entities). Quarks and leptons are the most elementary particles we know about at this time. They are no larger than 10-18 [cm] The Standard Model • Quarks and leptons are the most fundamental particles of nature that we know about. • Up & down quarks and electrons make up ordinary matter.
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GEO716: Lecture 1 what are geo’s of health? medical - impurical‚ deals with dynamics and measuring disease itself health - environmental‚ economical‚ social‚ physical spread of disease‚ health care management incidents of disease = the number of new prevalence prevalence can be a good thing ... people surviving infinite morality rates ... kids who live to five will likely live to adulthood degenerative and chronic disease ... expensive to keep an aging population if you live
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Part 1 Childhood Dreams Looking back on my childhood‚ I tend to go negative. We moved so much. My parents were not educated enough to help me with my homework. I felt lonely. My mom suffered from manic depression‚ and it sucked. We were so poor. But when I think about actual moments of my childhood‚ specific‚ tiny‚ day-to-day moments‚ I know I was lucky: in many ways‚ I had won the parent lottery. My parents somehow innately knew that part of the reason for their misfortune was their current lack
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Lecture 2014-01-29 Strategy Formation Chapter outline: I. The Issue of Realized Strategy Strategy Formation Activities Strategy Activity Roles II. The Paradox of Deliberateness and Emergence The Demand for Deliberate Strategizing The Demand for Strategy Emergence III. Perspectives on Strategy Formation The Strategic Planning Perspective The Strategic Incrementalism Perspective IV. The Debate and Readings Mission – “Some task‚ duty or purpose that sends someone on their way” (DVM
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The Last Lecture In everyone’s life‚ there are people. Some of these people walk in our lives for a second‚ only to run right out. While others walk in and leave a mark on our hearts. Sometimes this mark only lasts for a little while and then slowly fades away‚ but other times‚ this mark lasts for a lifetime. There is one man in my life who has made a distinct mark on my heart -- a mark that was created the first time he picked me up and held me in his arms. This mark has lasted ever since then
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Practices 3.6 Income from Property 4.0 SOURCE 4.1 The Link between Source and Residency 4.2 Income from Personal Services 4.3 Trading (Business) Income 4.4 Income from Property 5.0 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS Objectives of Lecture 2: At the end of this lecture‚ you should be able to: understand the importance of Sections 6-5(2) and 6-5(3) of the ITAA (1997); understand the concept of residence for Australian tax purposes; deduce from a given set of facts the issues relevant for determining
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In order to start the process for my observation I had to first speak with the parents of the child Mr. and Mrs. Pretty (not their real name). I spoke with Mrs. Pretty because her husband was unavailable at the time and I know her very well. I informed her about the assignment and discussed the outline of it with her to ensure that she knew exactly what the observation entail as well as the fact that I might need additional information from her or her husband. She informed me that she would inform
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Lecture Notes on Culture: Why we do what we do • Anthropology – study of culture • How and why cultures differ and are similar • Theoretical orientation – attitude about how cultural phenomenon is to be explained. Early evolutionism(Tylor and Morgan) - culture evolved from simple to complex- 3 stages of development savagery‚ barbarism‚ civilization - to account for variations – societies in different stages of evolution Historical Particularism – (Boas) disagreed with evolutionists that
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