1734 Predict Question 1: The BMR of both remaining rats will be lower than the normal rat’s BMR Predict Question 2: The normal rat will become hyperthyroidic but will not develop a goiter. Predict Question 3: The normal rat will become hyperthyroidic and develop a goiter. Predict Question 4: The normal rat will become hypothyroidic and develop a goiter. Chart 1: Effects of Hormones on Metabolic Rate Normal rat Thyroidectomized rat Hypophysectomized rat Baseline Weight (g) Variable‚ 249–251 Variable
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conducted on rats to determine how this happens. The rats fell into the three groups as mentioned earlier. Some of the rats had their neocortexes removed. These were removed at different ages of the rats. This was to make it similar to the procedure used on children with use of only one hemisphere of their brain. They found these to have similar impacts‚ and that the ability to control their limbs were lacking. They then put rats in a tank of water that had a platform for escape. The rats that had
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Title of the article: Maps in Your Mind Edward C. Tolman Reasons for Tolman to carry out the study were to demonstrate that complex internal cognitive activity could be studied in rats‚ not only in humans‚ and that these mental processes could be studied without the necessity of observing them directly. The theoretical propositions which this research is based on were two 2 modifications to the prevailing view that Tolman proposed. One was that the true nature and complexity of learning could
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Indian Mathematicians RAMANUJAN He was born on 22na of December 1887 in a small village of Tanjore district‚ Madras. He failed in English in Intermediate‚ so his formal studies were stopped but his self-study of mathematics continued. He sent a set of 120 theorems to Professor Hardy of Cambridge. As a result he invited Ramanujan to England. Ramanujan showed that any big number can be written as sum of not more than four prime numbers. He showed that how to divide the number into two or more squares
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conduct this study‚ male Sprague Dawley rats at sixteen months old were used. They were put into normal living conditions with access to plenty of food and water. The rats were then divided into four different groups. According to Zhang‚ Zheng‚ Dong‚ and Wang (2012)‚ “group A was sham operated control animals‚ group B was focal cerebral ischemia model‚ group C was vascular dementia model‚ and group D was vascular dementia model treated with nimodipine.” The rats were then taken into surgery and were
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during that time in Norway. Torvald controls every aspect of Nora’s life‚ down to what she can and cannot eat. Nora cannot stand being the rose in Torvald’s lapel and eventually‚ she rebels. Nora rebels‚ leaves Torvald‚ and gains her freedom‚ as many Norwegian women in the 1800’s wished to do. Throughout the play‚ Ibsen uses Nora as a doll‚ and the macaroons as her rebellion and freedom to symbolize how women during that time were submissive to their husbands and longed for their independence. The first
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Image in African Literature. London: Macmillan. Malti-Douglas‚ F. 1991. Woman’s Body‚ Woman’s Word. Gender and Discourse in Arabo-Islamic Writing. Princeton‚ New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Mikhail‚ M.N. 1992. Studies in the Short Fiction of Mahfouz and Idris. New York and London: New York Univeristy Press. Mustanoja‚ U-M. 1992. Esipuhe. In: Eevan kätketyt kasvot‚ Nawal el Saadawi. Helsinki: Kääntöpiiri. Saadawi‚ Nawal El‚ 1988 (1975). Nainen nollapisteessä. Helsinki: Kääntöpiiri 1988. A Woman
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assistance handled a rat pup‚ researchers found‚ it produced anxiety‚ a flood of stress hormones‚ in the pup. The dam’s licking and grooming counteracted that anxiety and calmed down that surge of hormones. Meaney and his researchers were intrigued and they wanted to learn about how licking and grooming
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Albino female rats (210-250 g weight) and their 27 pups provided by Adnan Menderes University Medical Faculty Experimental Animal Laboratory‚ were used. The rats were restricted separately in plastic cages under artificial lighting from fluorescence lamps‚ with a 12-h light photoperiod and a 12-h dark photoperiod. The room temperature was set at 25°C constant heat and 45%-55%
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THE VIRTUAL RAT EXPERIMENT By Cassidy Blaikie 200407994 A laboratory report Presented to Jennifer Gauthier In Psychology 210 Learning Psychology Department of Psychology St. Francis Xavier University February 23‚ 2007 Abstract The purpose of this experiment was to test whether training a simulated rat under a Partial Reinforcement Schedule took longer to extinguish than being trained in a Continuous Reinforcement Schedule. The subject involved was a computer based rat. The rat was trained
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