The Refrigeration Process Refrigeration has probably been around longer than you think. In 1823‚ Michael Faraday discovered that certain gases under constant pressure will condense when they cool. In 1875‚ Raoul Picet used sulfur dioxide as a refrigerant and in 1931 Refrigerant R-12 was developed by Thomas Midgley and C. F. Kettering. The Kelvinator refrigeration unit‚ ice cream units‚ and Semi-hermetic compressors were introduced at the beginning of the 20th century. In this
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In chapter 5 of “African American Relationships‚ Marriages‚ and Families” (Dixon‚ 2017) by Dixon‚ she begins with discussing the tradition view of woman hood in Africa. In the Ifa tradition of the Yoruba of Nigeria West Africa‚ there were many female dieties surrounding their culture including Oshun and Isis. Oshun is the central role in the creation of humanity being a great queen‚ mother‚ giver of children‚ and holder of mysterious‚ intrinsic female power. The Isis was known as the goddess‚ giver
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The Psychology of Human Misjudgment by Charles T. Munger Selections from three of Charlie Munger’s talks‚ combined into one talk never made‚ after revisions by Charlie in 2005 that included considerable new material. The three talks were: (1) The Bray Lecture at the Caltech Faculty Club‚ February 2‚ 1992; (2) Talk under the Sponsorship of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies at the Harvard Faculty Club‚ October 6‚ 1994; and the extensive revision by Charlie in 2005‚ made from memory unassisted
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1. Why do you think that it is so important to cultivate guanxi and guanxiwang in China? Guanxi and guanxiwang are essential to business in China. It is an important mechanism for building long-term business relationships and getting business done in China successfully. Because China is a big country for mechanism. By establishing connections in relationships would help do a better job and mechanism; and the society of China lacks a strong rule-based legal tradition‚ thus guanxi and guangxiwang
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Issue Analysis: Prosocial Behavior Rodney Caliste Psych 555 University of Phoenix Issue Analysis: Prosocial Behavior Human kindness has been studieds for centuries and spawned debates over the reasons behind exhibiting kindness and the lack of it. Prosocial behaviors are those behaviors that involve helping another person; ulterior motives may or may not play a part. Altruism is a prosocial behavior in which helping behavior occurs with no indication of personal benefit. According to Fiske
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George Gordon‚ Lord Byron‚ born in 1788 and died in 1824‚ was a known author and supporter of the English Romantics. Lord Byron has many pieces of work that have been studied throughout history but none as infamous as his poem titled “Prometheus”. To truly understand “Prometheus” one must first understand the author. Byron’s interpretation of Prometheus is highly reflective of his involvement and support of Romanticism. Romanticism can be defined as an intellectual and cultural reaction to the Enlightenment;
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Sex at Dawn Since Darwin’s Origin of the Species‚ we’ve been told that sexual monogamy comes natural. Mainstream science‚ as well as religious and cultural institutions‚ has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man’s possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman’s fertility and fidelity. In this groundbreaking book‚ however‚ Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá argue that human beings evolved in egalitarian groups that shared food‚ child care‚ and‚ often‚ sexual partners
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In the modern age‚ person perception can be formed in a variety of different ways and be created over an extended amount of time or done in a second. Person perception does not just include forming these perceptions but involves conclusions that we make based off of these impressions. This process can be both beneficial from a survival point of view but can also be incredibly harmful because these impressions can develop into stereotypes and biases that can percolate through societies view of the
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Analyzing Social Networks using NodeXL Abstract: Analyzing the social networks by finding page rank‚ betweenness and closeness centrality‚ degree‚ etc through programming requires a lot of coding (time consuming) and graphical representation of such large datasets is a challenge. Generating network statistics and metrics and creating visualizations of network graphs is made easy by using the tool NodeXL provided by the Microsoft in the familiar network of Microsoft Excel as a small add-in. In
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than fundamental principles set forth by a god. De Waal does this by examining the moral behaviors exhibited by humans closely related species in primates. He questions that if animals such as primates can demonstrate moral behaviors such as‚ reciprocation and empathy‚ then it is possible morality has a scientific explanation rather than a spiritual one that many religious individuals have said govern our decision making from deciding right from wrong. Using our close relatives primates and examining
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