In the Zone

Arctic tundra The Arctic Tundra is found nearly everywhere in the North. They are found mostly in the arctic. The categorization of a tundra falls between a taiga and the ice caps. The zone is controlled by the extremes in the weather. In the arctic tundra there are two seasons: winter and summer. In the summer, the sun is present almost 24 hours a day. This amount of sun only warms up the tundra to a range of about 3°C to 12°C. In the winter, the lighting conditions are flipped. For example,…

Order Number 3 established a 25-block restriction zone in Downtown Seattle, justified by city’s obligation to maintain order and protect the delegates and citizens from violent protestors. Order Number 3 was supposed to create a zone where delegates could go to and from the conference safely, without the threat of violence protestors, who threatened their safety and the continuance of the WTO conference. The police said the threat of violence, although only done by a small percentage of…

Introduction Antibiotics are the natural substances produced by the microbes that destroy or slow down the growth of the bacteria, whereas antimicrobial agents are the synthetic substances which developed in the laboratory that mimic effects of antibiotics. Selective toxicity means the microbial agents that kill the microbes without killing the host cells. Antimicrobial is divided into two spectrum of antibiotics – 1 Narrow spectrum: - This antibiotic is active against a selected group of the…

seek out lone ranging. One wolf attacked a crew who went into the Chernobyl zone injuring seven people. Spiders in Chernobyl do not make normal webs. A normal spider web is well strung and most prey cannot get through them. Chernobyl spiders weave webs similar to spiders who were intoxicated in an experiment, which weave erratic patterns and often have holes in them.” (Life After: Chernobyl) The soil in the radiation zone was also radioactive. “The top layer of soil had to be removed and buried…

Comparing the 3 wound care products zones of inhibition to see which one had the best overall average Betadine was 36.33mm, hand soap had the second largest of 33.75mm, and Neosporin had a very low 7mm. These results tell that Betadine is the best wound care product out of the three. The last category of products where hand cleaners and consisted of Germ-X and hand soap. Hand soap easily beat Germ-X with an overall average of 33.75mm compared to the Germ-x small zone of…

Antibiotic Penicillin Novobiocin Kanamycin Control Zones of Inhibition (cm) Sample 1 3.5 2.3 1.5 0 Sample 2 3.5 2.5 1.5 0 Sample 3 3.0 2.1 1.7 0 Sample 4 3.6 2.5 1.5 0 Average 3.4 2.3 1.6 0 Standard Deviation 0.271 0.163 0.153 0 Table 1: Displays the multiple samples conducted, along with the corresponding zones of inhibition diameters, in centimeters, for each antibiotic disk. Furthermore, the average diameter for each antibiotic’s inhibition zone was calculated in addition to the…

The end of World War II left the US, Britain, Russia, and the rest of the Allied Powers to decide the fate of Germany and Japan. Reaching consensus among the Allies was not an easy task. The US and Britain had extremely different ideological values from the USSR, which would prove disadvantageous in the nations’ hopes for maintaining positive relations. Without a common goal to defeat Germany, the US and the USSR began to clash. Within only a few years of the completion of World War II, the Cold…

Rolls Royce and their Trent family of engines are progressing at relatively the same pace technologically speaking, as the aforementioned GE and P&W engines. Rolls Royce incorporates composites into their engine manufacturing and monitoring systems similar to Boeing’s AHM called Engine Health Management (EHM) in order to facilitate trending and analysis in an effort maximize efficiencies and reduce waste (Cite, Rolls Royce). Figure 1- (Rolls Royce EHM) Next Gen Concepts In the past,…

Molecular control of adult neurogenesis in the human subependymal zone Adult neurogenesis The generation of new functional neurons from multipotent neural stem cells, termed neurogenesis, has been shown to persist in many mammalian species in two regions of the adult brain: the subgranular zone of the hippocampal dentate gyrus and the subependymal zone [SEZ, also subventricular zone] adjacent to the lateral ventricles [1, 2]. Lower levels of neurogenesis have been reported in other regions of…

which granted rights to African-Americans and women, taking a large step towards equality. In This Changes Everthing by Naomi Klein, Klein mentions that climate change and extractivism involves inequality, and extracticism is creating sacrifice zones. Klein defines ‘extractivism’ as “a term originally used to describe econmies based on removing ever more raw resources from the earth, usually…