... The kitchen table is low to the ground. The word is bat .I have a tab in my folder. The word is night .I saw a big black thing. The word is spider. My brother prides his photo bombs. 5. Blood, Wizard, Ghost, Witch, Zombie, Wolf, Sharks, and snakes are eight scary words 6. Pins, pump, pin, pumps, in, pumpkin are six words made out of the word pumpkins. 7. The owl belongs to the bird group. There is about 200 different owl species. A group of owls can be called a parliament. 8. The term superstition means “a belief or notion.” 9. Some superstitions are when a black cat crosses your path you have bad luck, opening an umbrella inside and last but not least if you break a mirror it will give you bad luck. 10. There are about 206 in a human skeleton. 11. The book Dracula was written by Bram Stoker and it was based on a vampire. 12. A spider is in the arachnid group. Spiders are an arachnid not an insect. Spiders have around 40,000 different species. 13. Nocturnal means to be active during the night like owls and bats. 14. Mary Shelley was a short story writer, English novelist, and a biographer. 15. I would pick the seeds out and eat them, I could paint it, put a light in it, I would decorate it and cut it up and feed it to the wild life and that’s is what I would do with a pumpkin. 16. Bats belong in the chiropteran group. Two facts about bats are that they are flying mammals and there are about 1,000 different bat species. 17. Boris Karloff was an actor for the Grinch...
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...Wood bats are safer for high school and college; however metal bats have better performance. With the ball speed off of the bat as the big safety issue for high school and college, wood bats have a slower speed than metal bats do. With every solution there is a problem to the solution; wood bats do not produce like metal bats do. The game play is different with each bat. The changes that the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) and the NCAA make for bats for play will have an effect for upcoming students. In High school and college the players get to use metal bats instead of wood. The performance of metal bats is a lot higher than wood. That is why college and high school use metal instead of wood bats. Metal bats have a higher ball speed off the bat, which is the safety issue that the NCAA and the NFHS have right now. There is a new standard for baseball bats which took effect in 2011 which is the Batted Ball Coefficient of Restitution (BBCOR) bats. They have almost the same ball speed off of the bat as a wood bat does, but the metal bat has a bigger sweet spot. A sweet spot is the part of the bat that will give the biggest trampoline effect to the baseball. Metal bats have made scoring runs in high school and college a lot easier than wood bats. The BBCOR bats have had a slight decline in runs and hits unlike the Ball Exit Speed Ratio (BESR) bats. The change from BESR bats to BBCOR happened in 2011. BESR bats had to high of a ball exit speed off of...
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...such as flying squirrels, gliding possums, and colugos, can only glide for short distances. Bats do not flap their entire forelimbs, as birds do, but instead flap their spread-out digits,[4] which are very long and covered with a thin membrane or patagium. Bats are the second largest group of mammals, representing about 20% of all classified mammal species worldwide, with about 1,240 bat species divided into two suborders: the less specialized and largely fruit-eating megabats, or flying foxes, and the highly specialized and echolocating microbats.[5] About 70% of bat species are insectivores. Most of the rest are frugivores, or fruit eaters. A few species, such as the fish-eating bat, feed from animals other than insects, with the vampire bats being hematophagous, or feeding on blood. Bats are present throughout most of the world, performing vital ecological roles of pollinating flowers and dispersing fruit seeds. Many tropical plant species depend entirely on bats for the distribution of their seeds. Bats are important, as they consume insect pests, reducing the need for pesticides. The smallest bat is the Kitti's hog-nosed bat, measuring 29–34 mm (1.14–1.34 in) in length, 15 cm (5.91 in) across the wings and 2–2.6 g (0.07–0.09 oz) in mass.[6][7] It is also arguably the smallest extant species of mammal, with the Etruscan shrew being the other contender.[8] The largest species of bat are a few species of Pteropus and the giant golden-crowned flying fox with a weight up to...
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...Quantitative Methods for Business Page 51-57. Problems: 2 (a,b,c), 5 (a,b), 9,10,17 (a,b,c,d,e),21 (a,b,c),23 (a,b) Case Problem: pg 61, College Softball Recruiting 2. a. define experiment: choose a person at random, and have them taste the different blends of coffee and state a preference. b. ¼ per blend, classical method c. P1(.20), P2(.30), P3(.35), P4(.15)= Σ Pᵢ =1.00 5. a. Not valid, Σ Pᵢ must equal 1 and they do not. b. Increase the probability values to equal 1. 9. Σ ᵢ=250 Eyes | Rash | Both | 90 | 135 | 45 | P(A) | P(B) | P(A∪B) | P(A)=.36 P(B)=.54 P(A∪B)=.18 P(A∩B)= P(A) + P(B) – P(A∪B) = .36+.54 -.18= .72 10. P(defective and minor)= 4/25 P(defective and major)= 2/25 P(defective)= 6/25 P(Major│defective) = P(defective ∪ major)/ P(defective)= (2/25)/(6/25)= 1/3 or .33333 17. Σ ᵢ=989 (M) Male=759 (F) Female=230 | 1 game P(A) | > 1 game P(B) | Ttl P(A∪B) | Male | 582 (.59) | 177 (.18) | 759 (.77) | Female | 211(.21) | 19 (.02) | 230 (.23) | Ttl | 793 (.80) | 196 (.20) | 989 (1.0) | a .20 randomly selected fan attended multiple games. 196/989 b .90 random selected fan attend multiple games be male. 177/196 c .18 random selected fan being male and attended multiple games. 177/989 d .23 177/759 ...
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...letters regarding questions/concerns about wooden vs. metal bats, I have gathered information that will allow us to provide several different responses that will satisfy the questions that the writers have for us. With all of the letters being sorted into 5 different categories, I was able to write an adequate response for each of those 5 categories to send out in a bulk method. Why has the NCAA not banned the use of metal bats? : * First and foremost make sure to apologize for their unfortunate experience and assure them that changes have been made to protect the safety of the players involved. * Explain in detail the efforts made by the BBCOR to ensure the approval of only certain bats that meet its requirements. * Ensure the writer that each and every bat that is available for use in the league that it will be stamped with a NCAA certification mark. * http://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/BBCOR%20Protocol-Effective%201.1.14.pdf Outside research and lack of change/action taken by the NCAA to change regulations: * Start out by acknowledging their effort to write a letter to us and tell them that we are always looking for ways to better the safety efforts and standards for the players. * The writer’s information may be outdated, because the BBCOR regulations of 2014 have made a significant change in the “trampoline effect” and are much safer than they were in prior years. * Each and every bat must be approved and the facts can be checked at our website...
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...vibrations * Mouse * For finding sex partners * Sloths * For finding sex partners * For warning others of danger * Bats * To navigate through the dark * For hunting * Dolphins * For navigating Sonar System * The shapes of the surrounding objects are determined according to the echo of sound waves. Bat’s Sonar * Send’s sound waves in all directions 20 to 30 times each second. * Bats reduce their sonar squeals to prevent confusion from overlapping waves by the echoes. * Technology counterpart is the AWACS Boeing 767 jets Moths * Can disrupt the flow of the bat’s ultrasound waves so they can’t be detected * Technology counterpart is EA-6B Prowler * Dolphin’s Sonar * Can produce as many as 1200 clicks per second. * The echoes let the dolphin determine the direction, speed, and size of the object that reflects them. Sonar Technologies that Help the Visually Impaired Smart Canes * Independent mobility to blind people * Emits ultrasound waves to detect nearby obstacles and vibrates to inform the user Ultra Canes * Provides distance and direction to navigate narrow paths while avoiding obstacles Ultra Bikes * Contains 2 ultrasound sensors and has 2 arms that vibrate to inform the cyclist about obstacles. Superior Bat Design for Safe Travel * Ultrasound sensors bounce sound waves off obstacles, using the echo to know the distance. * As they get closer...
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...Project is to determine which type of baseball bat is best. Aluminum or wood? In my personal opinion aluminum is best because they are lighter and easier to swing. Aluminum bats are lighter therefore you can swing it faster than a wood bat. It also has a wider sweet spot so the ball come off the bat faster. An aluminum bat may or may not hit further – depending on the batter, but the batter will have more control of the bat because it is lighter. Wooden bats are heavier so they have less recoil. A wooden bat moving at the same speed of an aluminum bat will hit harder. If the batter can get the bat moving fast the ball will go further, that’s if he makes contact. Wooden bats also do not vibrate as much which is better for the batters hands. When the NCAA approved the use of aluminum bats in 1974 they started to compare statistics. They found that the team batting averages went up about twenty points, and home runs doubled. The main reason wooden bats are required in the pros is because of this performance difference. “Pro leagues want to protect their historical records, and they want the performance of the game to be the result of human ability, rather than the technology of the bats,” says George Manning. The bottom line is that non-wood bats do lead to higher batted ball speeds and this means harder line drives and deeper fly balls. They are much easier to swing and because it is lighter you have better control of the bat. It is easier to make “last minute adjustments”...
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...companionship. Although Peter is gone, the memory of his good and loving soul is captured in this worn out mitt. Peter’s glove is a left-handed fielder’s mitt. The glove isn’t in very good shape. The smooth and firm leather of the mitt is now quite ragged. The stitching of the mitt is loose and is in desperate need for repair. Dirt and dust from numerous baseball fields have taken its toll and damaged the sturdy webbing of the mitt. What used to be a well-inscribed white logo of a company has disappeared, with the exception of the lonely remains of a letter “d”, now standing all alone. The most outstanding part of the mitt are the numerous poems written on it. My brother copied the poems, so he had something to read, when no one was up at bat. The bright green ink, what used to be like the first green leaves on a warm spring day, is now faded, but still readable. One poem that stands out is written on the backside of the glove, where time hasn’t caused a lot of damage. The leather, on which the poem is written on, is in excellent condition, when comparing it with the rest of the glove. Both the author and the title of the poem remain unknown to me and I’d like if it stayed like that. Sometimes I even dream, that Peter wrote it himself, just for me to...
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...Baseball Bat Standards Complaints Overview Template Table Below we have created a table with responses to the letters. We have organized it by: the complaints, responses, and sources to where we have found our information. Arguments in the letter | Potential responses | Research backing the responses | How could you risk my son's life by not changing the standards for bats immediately when your tests showed that a player cannot react quickly enough to avoid a ball batted by one of these high tech bats? The NCAA should be ashamed. I am writing my congressman. | The NCAA has already attempted to change the standards a year ago, but ultimately the company would be sued by one of our top manufacturers (Easton), which directed the company to limit the performance of all composite bats. Also, the miles per hour from an average hit off of a composite bat are 93.3mph whereas for a wooden bat, the power of the bat generates an average of 86.1mph. Although this statistic was provided by Brown University and was set forth over a decade ago, the standards have been drastically been shaped to allow for much safer composite bats than in previous years. | | What are the results of your research in the area of bat technology?I saw a show on Fox Sports Net in the Spring that made some claims that not only are batted balls faster than ever, that the 1999 rules for bats would not change that fact because the bat makers were going to add the weight you require to the bat handles...
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...their requirements. This paper will discuss how men approached to some of their development and what roles did nature and some of its designs play to inspire inventors. The paper will go farther than this to look up at a new scientific method that imitate natural superior system to improve humans' life. It will concentrate mainly on the advancements of communication systems due to researches on this science which is called Biomimetics. Finally it will try to identify any existing similar natural and human-made structures and see how efficient are both of them compared to the other one. See all 5 photos Bat's Sonar Boeing 767 jet electrical and nerve systems wiring insulations. optical fiber polar bear the greater bulldog bat Introducation people have always trying to reach perfection in th tools and systems they make in order to continually enhance their lives . It is...
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...not exist at all, but rather that it does not exist in the way that Major League Baseball defines it. The rulebook definition is a rectangular solid hanging in space, with infinitesimally thin boundaries which, once touched, trigger strike calls. The actual strike zone is a shifting, nebulous cloud of probability density. It moves up and down with the whims of the umpire and the policy changes of MLB. It shrinks and expands as the count becomes favorable or unfavorable. It grows when an experienced pitcher throws and contracts when bad pitch framers snatch pitches with exaggerated body movements. It’s not a static thing, fixed for every hitter of every height; instead, it is constantly dynamic, flowing with the previous pitches and at-bats in a game. I render here no judgment as to whether the strike zone ought to be this way. I’m only noting that according to all available evidence, it is this way. As a first pass approximation, it’s okay to think of the zone as that imaginary rectangular solid, i.e. in its unicorn form. But with the greater granularity afforded us by PITCHf/x data, we...
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...Reporter Bat Cave (Wikipedia): In Chapter 10, author described Travis’s experience of bat cave. His father told him it was amazing to see bat come out of bat cave. Travis always wanted to visit it if he was free. Bat cave is not the home for bats because bats just stay for reproduction and sleep. It is dark and deep inside the cave but bat still can find the road with echolocation system , with special skills. There are lots of bat cave in all over the world, such as Latin America, Africa. The largest bat cave is located on Mexico, called Bracken Cave. In March and April, there are about millions of youth bats born. Male will stay in a small group and protect the youth. Lots of female bats will stick on the wall and lay eggs. After three...
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...The case gives us an insight into global business strategies and operations of Acer Group, one of the largest PC and computer components manufacturers. The case study discusses the pros and cons of expanding the business in China and reasons whether the Acer group is ready to start their business in China. As part of their global manufacturing strategy, Acer had adopted the ‘fast food’ business model on inventory management. This model involved shifting assembly sites of computers to local sites i.e. areas where the computers would be distributed. This model provided up-to-date products to the customers, reduced inventory, expedited transportation and developed a highly flexible logistic system. In spite of implementing the mentioned business model, Acer incurred losses worth $75 million. Few possible reasons include - * Internal Communication and Co-ordination - Setting up new assembly sites locally made co-ordination between manufacturing sites difficult and cumbersome. * Forecast mismatch – Since the computer industry was rapidly changing it was difficult to predict sales accurately. A slight mismatch in the forecast meant higher accumulation of inventory in each of its assembly sites. * High operating cost – Increased number of sites meant more number of components in the existing supply chain and more supervisors which in turn raised the operating cost. * Inventory pile up - Unclear understanding of customer demands and market needs resulted in bloated inventories...
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...Introduction The essay is intended to deliver an analysis about Chinese foreign policy in the upcoming years, its development and clarification of the position of the People’s Republic of China in the international relations with a focus on China’s peaceful rise. The essay covers China’s relations to the selected countries, for example the most important neighbouring countries, but nevertheless the U.S., European Union and Middle East also. It focuses also on environmental sustainability, possible economic influence in the foreign countries, controversial issues over disputed areas and possible democratization of the political system. Analytically it discusses the factors involved in shaping as the China’s foreign policy, as well as domestic policy. It deals with human rights violation and discrimination. In focus to the security issues it gives an overview of China’s military capacities and abilities, which may be considered as a threat to its peaceful rise. As a conclusion it gives an analysis of factors that contribute in China’s effort to become a regional power, in means of emerging power that is able to compete with the traditional western type powers. Theoretical basis The impressive economic growth of People’s Republic of China over the past few decades raises a profound question about China’s peaceful rise in the international relations. It is a beautiful example of a country which is to become a regional and eventually global power in our lifetime. China is...
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...study as well. The best part I think about YouTube is that I can access to videos which are from all over the world to experience the cultural difference and to see those beautiful scenes without actually traveling there. I also like to read the comments about the videos to see the different opinions. I think YouTube is doing great with using Facebook and Twitter. Since the key point about YouTube sharing, to post the link to Facebook and Twitter will be a great idea which YouTube has already done so. It combines well with the social media and it builds brand loyalty by providing a platform to deliver information and happiness to users. Wretch is a website in Taiwan which allows users to write blogs and post pictures to their page and they also can get access to their friends’ pages. Before Facebook gets popular in Taiwan for the recent years, Wretch was the most popular website among people. I had my own page since 2004 and I am still using it now. However, Facebook has become a great threat to Wretch. The benefits and the service they offer are quite similar. Because Facebook is more global and broad, it...
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