Anchorage

vessels was assembled in Bikini Lagoon. At the center of the target cluster, the density was 20 ships per square mile (7.7 per km²), three to five times greater than military doctrine would allow. The stated goal was not to duplicate a realistic anchorage, but to measure damage as a function of distance from the blast center, at as many different distances as possible. The arrangement also reflected the outcome of the Army/Navy disagreement about how many ships should be allowed to sink. The…

In 1776, any white male that owned property in the United States had the right to vote in the local and national election. Today, this country has come a long way in voting rights and any eligible adult can vote if they meet some basic requirements. Looking specifically at Alaska, an individual has voting rights if they are: 1) a U.S. Citizen; 2) a resident in Alaska 30 days before an election; 3) 18 years or older; 4) not convicted felon or a convicted felon with voting rights restored; and…

In The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction, private investigators are willing to do what ever it takes to solve the crime. They are contracted and do not work for the police. They hold both good and bad qualities that help them solve crimes. In Raymond Chandler’s “Trouble is My Business” he introduces us to a private investigator by the name of Chandler Phillip Marlowe. This investigator is witty and speaks with too much sarcasm at times. He is not concerned with reporting murders to the…

Chris McCandless and Henry David Thoreau were both adventures that went out on their own in the wild. They had some similarities for why they isolated themselves. They also had some difference in how they prepared for going out. Only one of these people found success in their quest. They had to overcome different weather patterns and other obstacles. Chris and Henry both showed transcendentalism by doing something different and being their selves and not following the paths of others. One way…

Total knee replacement is also known as total knee arthroplasty (Scott, 2015). The reasons for having this arthroplasty (reconstruction of a joint) done include severe knee pain, and stiffness that limits the patient’s ability to walk (Phillips, 2013; Scott, 2015). This procedure relieves pain and helps the patient regain function of the knee by replacing three knee joints, the medial and lateral femorotibial joints, and the patellofemoral joint (Scott, 2015). When the patient is supine, the…

The main lesion in chronic schistosomiasis represents a complex delayed-type hypersensitivity response to sequestered living, dying or dead ova, that are trapped in tissues during the peri-intestinal migration or after embolization in the liver. Soluble egg antigen (SEA) and proteolytic enzymes released by ova provoke granulomatous cell-mediated immune response, with recruitment of eosinophils, granuloma formation and liver fibrosis (Cheever et al., 2000; Wynn et al., 2004). In schistosomiasis,…

make light work.” (“John Heywood Quotes”). Although a musher might say, many paws make light work. In the Iditarod, it is a race with one man and his or hers sixteen dogs. They travel a total of about a thousand miles in below freezing weather from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska. It is indisputable that the Iditarod is an extreme race, but only the best of the best can achieve the finish line. With all of the many paws helping, the Iditarod dogsled race is absolutely not a form of animal cruelty.…

Forty feet in the air, standing in a bucket smaller than the span of my arms, the body harness with the lanyard attached to an anchorage point does nothing to quell my lifelong fear of heights. Despite this, the possible regret of missing this opportunity demolishes any apprehension. “Grab a leaf from the Quercus alba” Bob, the assistant arborist, challenges me to do so back when I stood on solid ground. So with a white knuckle grip on the bucket, a steady hand on the hydraulic controls, and all…

Gestational Surrogacy instances. However, this was until 2014 when a court issued a pre-birth parentage order to heterosexually married couples using their individual sperm and egg. Since the court is located in the judicial district of Alaska covering Anchorage as well as an enormous majority of the state’s population, Alaska’s attorneys are highly optimistic to issue more pre-birth parentage sanctions. So one may ask who is legible for a court order in case one or more parents are related to…

of surface optimization strategies to allow a rapid osseointergration and to improve the strength and stability of bone-implant interaction.3 Nowadays, it is widely accepted that rough surfaces, rather than smooth ones, favor a greater osteoblast anchorage, thus facilitating the prosthesis osseointegration.4 However, as peri-implantitis represents…