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Flight 1549, with one hundred and fifty-five people on board. However, in less than five minutes in the air, Sullenberger faced a predicament when a flock of geese struck the aircraft, causing Flight 1549 to lose all engine power. In order to save the maximum amount of lives, Captain Sullenberger approached his problem in a new direction: he decided to crash-land in the Hudson River. Miracuously, all one hundred and fifty-five people on board survived the water-landing, making the captain’s…

The heart is an essential part of a human’s body. It is a muscular organ located at the center of the circulatory system that pumps blood throughout the body. The system comprises of veins, arteries, and capillaries, and these blood vessels carry blood to and from all areas of one’s body to sustain life. It beats around 100,000 times and pumps around 2,000 gallons per day. The heart is vital to one’s health and everything that goes on in his or her body. The heart is also prone to many different…

Introduction Microbes are found everywhere and are the oldest from of life on Earth. They are so small that millions can fit into the eye of a needle and most microbes are harmless and are crucial for our existence on Earth. Not all microbes are harmless and many in fact can cause serious damage to plants, animals and humans. A pathogen is anything that can cause a disease or illness to its host and includes worms, bacteria, protozoa, viruses and fungus. This report will focus on food…

and the immune response to the implantation on neointimal formation offers an interesting outcome when coupled with the bioresorbable vascular scaffold. The transient nature of these scaffolds within the vasculature should potentially decrease the likelihood of restenosis observed with metal-based stents. Together the neointimal formation surround the scaffold and the new connective tissue replacing the scaffold overtime produce a thick fibrous plaque that increases plaque stability helping…

measure in Sieverts (Sv) which is the absorbed dose × weighting factor. Australian’s receive 1.5-2 millisieverts a year as their natural background radiation. Annually worldwide, natural background radiation is around 1.5-3.5 millisieverts. The maximum yearly dosage for radiation workers is 20-50mSv. When exposed to 1-3Sv of radiation, severe poisoning occurs, cancer risks increase and fatality is possible. At 4Sv radiation poisoning is fatal, and medical attention is needed immediately for…

In America, there is never a day where parents lay their child to sleep praying that guerilla warfare groups will not rampage into their home and steal their child away for sex slavery, recruitment, or drug trafficking; in rural Uganda, parents say this prayer one too many times. When juxtaposing America and Uganda, jarring separations between their cultures and societal way of life become more apparent. Three prominent characteristics that separate America and Uganda are the countries '…

In September 2016, NASA reported that the earth’s carbon dioxide level had passed the maximum level of 400 PPM when it was supposed to be at the lowest point of that year (Kahn 2016). This data from NASA (2016) shows that ever since the Industrial Revolution, human activities have been responsible for creating more greenhouse gases and the earth’s climate has rapidly changed. Climate change is one of five factors that Diamond mentioned in his collapse model and which became the basis of this…

Bernanke. During his time in academia and at the Fed, former Chairman Bernanke spent much time analysing methods for central banks to deploy in their fight against deflation. He argued that the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) should announce a maximum tolerable level for the monetary base should the US ever face the same risks of deeply-embedded Japanese-style deflationary psychology. Furthermore, the FOMC should request from Congress a figure for how much debt could be directly purchased…

Omar Lab 1 Cover letter Dear Dr. …………., This experiment aims at determining carbon (IV) dioxide bubble and dew points as a single component by the use of PVT stimulator at four distinctive temperatures. Besides, it determines the increasing of pressure effect on the carbon (IV) dioxide two-phase envelope. The starting pressure was set at two thousand psi with a (±0.1 psi precision. The beginning volume for carbon (IV) dioxide gas was set at zero while the liquid carbon (IV) dioxide at 14.7 cc…

financial responsibilities are unrealistic. In 2014, 30.6% of single-mother households were below the poverty threshold in a small study done by Census Bureau (DeNavas-Walt, et al. 2014). With a limited income, a single parent can bring home, the maximum allotment of $511.00 (without deductions) would be difficult to spread across three mouths, for four weeks. Much of the other income would be going to childcare, transportation, bills,…