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that there is a small planet, Proxima b, orbiting Proxima Centauri. Details of Proxima b include a semi-amplitude of 1.4 ms^-1, a mass of 1.3 Earth masses, a semi major axis of .05 AU, and that it lies squarely in the center of the classical habitable zone for…

As Buettner points out, there is no actual diet for longevity. However, he had this to say about the diets of people in the Blue Zones: Instead, these people drink a little bit every day, not a hard sell to the American people. They tend to eat a plant based diet. Doesn’t mean they don’t eat met, but lots of beans and nuts. And they have strategies to keep from overeating, little…

TV Shows Analysis: American Horror Story and the Twilight Zone Linh Hua Anderson University Televisions came to the United States during the late 1940s, but they did not officially bloom until the 1950s. They were able to dominate Americans due to their diversity of programs: variety shows, anthology shows, sitcom shows, etc. In the current time, when one mentions anthology, people would immediately think about The Twilight Zone, which runs in the late fifties and sixties, and…

These samples were obtained randomly using a landing net and a bucket of water that contained water from the pond to put the fish. The collected fish were measured and their length recorded (in mm) from the apex of the lower jaw towards the posterior end. The measurement was done using a small ruler and to make sure the same fish was not measured twice; the measured fish was put in a separate bucket. After the experiment, we released the fish to the pond. The data collected was used to…

Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone is about the Reston virus, one of the five strands of Ebola, and its outbreak in Virginia in 1989, which startled the eastern United States. The story begins with a hot zone of the Ebola virus, Kitum Cave, in order to provide background information towards the virus and its hunger to take hold of a host. Over the course of the story Preston depicts the viral effects, emphasizes the passion of the scientist, and conveys the bravery in an almost disastrous situation.…

August Wilson published Fences in the year 1985 to present "a slice of life in a black tenement in Pittsburgh in the 1950s" (Jacobus, 1466). Wilson was able to accomplish his goal of writing a script that deals with time, place and action unity, as well as family. This was done through many script revisions and honing upon "the all-American game" known as baseball (Jacobus, 1495). Baseball is a reoccurring subject throughout Fences. Troy uses baseball in metaphorical instances in order to…

Wide-spread recognition of escalating hydrological alterations of rivers has increased as a result of existing and projected future increases in water demands. The importance of a river’s flow regime for sustaining biodiversity and ecological integrity has been well studied over the last past 4 decades. This paper synthesizes the flow assessment methodologies to understand ecological responses to flow alteration and begins with a compilation of all historical methods to assess environmental…

Rocky intertidal zonation at Lawrencetown Beach Introduction Nova Scotia has an extensive coastline with varying degrees of exposure. The intertidal zone (littoral zone) is where the ocean meets land and around Nova Scotia’s coast this zone is highly diverse, from salt marshes to mudflats and rocky shores. The intertidal zone is the area that is exposed to air at low tide and submerged by water at high tide and the species that are located here need to tolerate various levels of exposure. The…

there and are so well-adapted that they readily grow and multiply in order to survive. An example of an extremophile which lives in the deep ocean is the Anglerfish. It lives in the bottom three depth zones of the sea. The ocean is separated into five depth zones, the Euphotic zone, the Mesopelagic zone, the Bathypelagic…

than the brown barnacle. Its fundamental niche ranges from high to low tidal zones, but it is more prone to desiccation than Chamaesipho brunnea so it prefers a damper climate (Luckens, 1975). While the brown barnacle only settles on rock, the column barnacle can also settle on mollusc shells, wood, iron and other barnacles (Luckens, 1975). This is an adaptation that allows the column barnacle an advantage in lower tidal zones, where it can settle on top of brown barnacles and disrupt…