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Copper-alloy miniature votive dagger. The pommel is uneven and spherical with a ridge at the top. The pommel narrows into the slightly curved grip. The guard is a square shape with two parallel grooves on each side. The blade narrows into a dulled point. There is a round hole three-quarters of the way up the blade. The back is chipped on the left edge of the blade near the point (as seen in figure 1) and has furrows on the blade below the hole. The front has scratches on the blade above both…

Victoria Crowe’s portrait of former Principal and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Brian Lang completed in 2008 serves as a tribute to the life-long academic whom, during his time as principal, expanded and led the University into the twenty-first century. In a portrait style distinctive from the rest of the University’s portrait collection, Crowe adheres to her professed commitment in portraiture to represent, “a balance between the personality of the sitter, a sense of what they are, revealed through work…

ENGR 100 – Fall 2016 Assignment #3 Name: Nemanja Koviljac Student ID: 000129698 Date Submitted: 10.21.2016. Southwest Louisiana (SWLA) Westlake Chemical is corporation that makes chemical and plastic products. This company is global supplier of plastics, petrochemicals and building products. President and CEO of Westlake Chemical is Albert Chao. It was founded in 1986. and has headquarters at Houston, Texas. This corporation has approximately 9000 employees. Westlake Chemical has two major…

“Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.” Said the great aviator Howard Hughes. This businessman, film producer, philanthropist, and aviator just basically did everything people thought was impossible like building the biggest plane to building the fastest plane, and the best films, but also became a billionaire at the age of 40. He was also known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals of the world. What was…

the motion. The velocity is used in the equation to determine acceleration, therefore, the graphs end up looking similar to each other (both trend lines tend to increase when moving rightward). The standard deviation for velocity is calculated to be 2.26 ± 0.8023 m/s. On the other hand, the standard deviation for acceleration is 5.566 ± 0.4453 m/s2. In addition to that, the accelerations from each testing height are also compared to the theoretical acceleration (9.8 m/s2). The lowest percent…

Question 8 Under the heading of offences involving criminal negligence, and section 220 stating that, “every person who by criminal negligence causes death to another person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable”, the case of F.J. (2008) set how the section should be applied. In the case, the accused failed to act and prove the necessaires of life to this foster son by not protecting him from the abuse the son suffered from the spouse; nevertheless, the accused was acquitted of charges.…

The Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 Revised (CSAI-2R), is one of the most frequently used instruments in the evaluation of situational anxiety in sports competition. Objectives: The objective of this study was to validate the Tunisian version based on the French version of the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 Revised (CSAI-2R), including the direction and the frequency scales. Method: 418 athletes ranging in age from 14 to 34 years in different individual and team competitions,…

In the next step, the graded response IRT model will be analyzed again for each identified domain, but without the excluded items, and the model fit statistics will be assessed. If the model has a good fit statistics, the best item for each domain will be selected according to the distribution of the threshold values across the latent scale and the discrimination value; item that has threshold values cross the whole latent scale and high discrimination value will be selected. Sample Size Graded…

¥ For how many students do you have Verbal Aggressiveness scores? We have Verbal Aggressiveness scores for 59 students. ¥ What is the mean for the entire sample? The mean for the entire sample is 44.0169. ¥ How do you interpret the mean score? When we interpret the mean score, we should look at the minimum and the maximum scores, so we can see the mean are close to each one. In verbal aggressiveness, the minimum is 26 and the maximum is 65, which indicates that the mean around the middle of…

Wealth, helped the american people by making oil affordable to the masses and creating new ways to use the by-products of refining oil. Through the life of John D. Rockefeller, he influenced the United States especially with his philanthropy, founding standard oil, and making oil accessible to the masses. Rockefeller was born to William and Eliza Rockefeller. Rockefeller went through high school, then enrolled into a business school graduating after a year. Rockefeller thought…