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    Epidural Anagesia

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    provide pain relief during labor. To convert epidural analgesia in labor for emergency cesarean section, a strong solution of local anesthetic is required aiming to achieve rapid and good quality of epidural anesthesia. Different solutions of local anesthetic are used for this reason. The optimum choice of local anaesthetic solution for achieving rapid and reliable epidural anaesthesia for caesarean section is still not clarified [1]. The solution used is selected according to personal…

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    People are sent to work by the economy; consequently, they cannot afford housing near their job. Developers build an expensive house in the neighborhood or the apartment. Affordable housing is a problem for homeless people in the region. Library.cqpress.com reports, “Many homeless people began living in shanties made of cardboard or other salvaged material” (Lyons). Due to higher prices and rents, people cannot afford to live in an expensive house. The company is considering two solutions that…

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    In what initially began as a case of whites versus blacks, the Scottsboro trial soon escalated into a trial of capitalists versus communists and a repeat of the common battles between Jews and Gentiles and North battling South. The Scottsboro boys morphed into pawns for battles where the outcome had little to do with them. Organizations fought over the fame of defending the unjustly accused nine Scottsboro boys. Through much perseverance, the American Communist Party received complete compliance…

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    In Alomar and Bell’s case there is a definite infringement on section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and therefore, the photographs of Ms. Alomar holding a handgun should be inadmissible to the trial. Including this evidence would be injustice when coming to a final verdict due to the fact that it violates section 8 of the Charter which states that “everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search and seizure” The search of the photos was not authorized by the…

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    was the head of the Platonist school in Alexandria around 400 A.D. Hypatia contributed in many ways to math; it is said that she edited the work on “The Conics of Apollonius.” With her influence in this book, Hypatia made the concepts easier for others to understand, thus ensuring that the work endured, as it has for many centuries. Conic sections are the figures formed by the intersection of a plane and…

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    In the early 17th century names like Francois Viete and Bartholomeo Pitiscus were still ringing through the mathematical community’s ears. Viete had blown everyone away with his book Canon Mathematicus in 1579. The book contained a collection of trigonometric formulas and tables. Viete was also responsible for trisecting an angle and the construction of the regular pentagon. Bartholomeo Pitiscus had coined the term trigonometry in the title of his 1595 book, Trigonometria. This book was split…

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    Alien Motion Lab

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    only object that exerts a substantial force of gravitational attraction with the spacecraft is the Sun. Because of this it is called the 2 Body Problem. It can be demonstrated using Newton’s Law of Gravitation that the orbit in a 2 Body Problem is a conic. What could be asked now is, what is the shape of the planets orbit? Kepler in its first law states that the orbit of the planets around the sun is an elliptical shape, with the centre of the sun being located in one of the foci. An ellipse…

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    Hypatia Essay

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    stay preserved until now, we know a handful of her works by citations and quotations in other’s works. Hypatia worked with her father on Euclid’s Elements. She edited her father’s works on Euclid’s Elements. Hypatia wrote as well a commentary on "The Conics of Apollonius", which included Ptolemy's numerous observations of the stars. This commentary also included dividing cones into different parts by a plane, which led to developing the concepts of parabola, hyperbola and ellipse. She is known…

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    born in Perga in 262B.C.-190B.C. With all of his acknowledge discoveries he had made, he made himself to be acknowledged by many even today thanks to him whe can use the algebra we know today since Apollonius was noted for his writings on the conic section (the parabolas, circles and ellipse, and the hyperbola)…

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    Blaise Pascal Inventions

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    Blaise Pascal- Pascaline An idea does not just come out of nowhere; there needs an action to trigger those specific thoughts. The same goes for inventions, events need to lead up to the need/idea for an invention. For example, sliced bread would have never been invented had not the recipe for bread itself been created. Another example takes place in the life of Blaise Pascal. The upbringing of Blaise Pascal led to one of his greatest inventions, the Pascaline calculator. Blaise Pascal was born…

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