many species of Bear, Caribou, and some of the world largest moose. Heavy bodied and long-legged, moose are the largest members of the deer family. They range in color from golden brown to almost black, depending upon the season and the age of the animal. Full grown male bulls stand almost 6 feet tall at the shoulder, and bulls in prime condition weigh from 1,200 to 1,600 lbs. Adult females or cows are somewhat smaller and weigh 800 to 1,300 lbs. A 1,600-lb moose will field dress out at about 950
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The Complex Connotations and the Distinct Denotation of “Diet” Dr. Sanford once told my class an interesting example about the connotation of words. She said, “If someone walks up to me and says that I am thrifty, I would reply, ‘Thanks! I know how to stretch a good dollar.’ But if someone walks up to me and says, ‘You’re cheap,’ I would say, ‘Excuse me?’ ‘Thrifty’ and ‘cheap’ mean the same thing, but are understood differently.” Similarly, there are other words that people perceive through multiple
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ECOSCIENCE The Lithosphere The term Lithosphere is derived from Greek and means “rock layer. The lithosphere is approximately 65 to 100 km (40 to 60 mi) thick. Geologists regard the lithosphere as the relatively cool, outermost layer of the planet and view it as a rigid shell. The lithosphere is broken up into different plates. At a depth of about 100 km, the rigid, brittle rock of the lithosphere suddenly gives way to hot, soft, plastic rock of the asthenosphere. In this layer, rock is
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Emerging Standards of Care According to the U.S department of Health and Human services Office of Minority Health, "Integrated health care approaches must respect the whole person, work across the life span, include prevention and early intervention methods, and be person-centered, strength-based and recovery focused," (Sanchez, Chapa, Ybarra, & Martinez, Jr., 2012, p. 5 ). In this healthcare model, the patient must be treated not only according to the standards of nursing practice but integrate
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It is certainly possible to argue that Angela Carter presents a large number of family relationships in a sinister and distorted manner. Many, though not all, of her stories feature family structures lacking any of the traditional bonds and affections which typically accompany a family. In stories such as the titular Bloody Chamber, The Werewolf and Wolf Alice, Carter presents a wide variety of distorted family relationships. “There was a bloody stump where her right hand should have been, festering
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and are monomers. 3. Monosaccharides can join together to form disaccharides in a condensation reaction, forming a glycosidic bond. This can be broken by hydrolysis: 4. Polysaccharides are formed from multiple glycosidic bonds, and include starch, glycogen and cellulose. 5. 1-4 glycosidic bonds create straight chains, whereas side chains are produced from 1-6 bonds. 6. Cellulose is fibrous, with β 1-4 linkages, and is used in cell walls. Glycogen and starch are both coiled, with α 1-4 linkages
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Animal Behaviour Behaviour is simply an action that an organism carries out, in response to some sort of stimulus. So it includes movements, changes in position, physiological reactions etc. Even organisms as simple as amoeba (photo) show behaviours. As biologists, it is important that we get to grips with the adaptive nature of behaviour as well as physical adaptations. The study of animal behaviour is called ethology. The study of animal behaviour is more difficult than you might think: it takes
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Anthropology? * the study of culture * the study of humans * the study of humans and human behavior * the study of culture among different people and places * the study of global cultures and the comparisons between the various differences * It incorporate culture, including language, social practice, religion, etc. * the study of culture…it can be scientific, humanistic and based on observation * the study of humans in all parts of the world…it combines several fields into
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which dictate much of the living world. Perhaps one of the most renowned literary characters of supernatural fiction is the werewolf. Historically, this literary concept of a wolf-human hybrid is rooted in evil. They are graphically described as “bestial, blood-drinking, human-flesh-eating creatures, endowed with more than human agility and strength” (Rudin 115). Werewolves served as popular antagonists throughout media, including television and cinema; yet, in recent years, the media’s perception of
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The biggest landfill on the earth: Great Pacific Garbage Patch Can you imagine the amount of trash approximately fourteen times bigger than whole Slovakia? No? Then it is about time to make you familiar with Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This large floating landfill is the biggest one in the world. According to Charles Moore, discoverer of Great Pacific Garbage Patch (in 1977), "The ocean is downhill from everything" (as cited in Blomberg, 2011). Considering the fact that high percentage
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