Science & Technology Essays and Term Papers

the U.S. software industry lost more than $2.6 billion to software piracy in 2000. This loss has a significant impact on the U.S. economy. Furthermore, it has been estimated that software piracy cost the U.S. economy over 109,000 jobs, $5.6 billion…

diseases and the pros and cons of treatment or prevention techniques. I will first explore what the characteristics of healthy bone are and what the loss of bone mass and density can mean to a person's health and well being. My sources will be from the…

fields in modern history. Dating back only a few decades to the late 1950's and early 1960's, it has become on of the leading industries in the world today. Developed through the technological architecture of electrical engineering and the computational…

narrated the heroic yet at the same time tragic story of Edna Pontellier, a twenty-eight-year-old wife of a New Orleans businessman. Upon finding herself dissatisfied with her marriage and limited life-style, Edna broke free from her vague, unconscious…

process of developmental unfolding that takes place over a long period of time, and starts with a simple form then gradually grows into a more complex organism. Humans, for example, have been evolving for about eight million years to mold us into what…

at epidemic levels. The risk of breast cancer among the general population of women is now close to 12%. That means 12 out of every 100 women in this country will get breast cancer. For women who have never had children it is closer to 20%. And…

BREIFLY INTERRUPTS THE NORMAL ELECTRECAL ACVTIVITY OF THE BRAIN AND THEN LEADS TO SEIZURES. SEIZURES ARE CHARACTERIZED BY MANY DIFFERENT SYMPTOMS INCLUDING, UNCONTROLLED MOVEMENTS OF THE BODY, DISORENTATION OR CONFUSION, SUDDEN FEAR, OR LOSS OF CONCIOUSN…

be used for, to explore outer regions of space or to control peoples imagination.In the short stories "The Cold Equation" by Tom Godwin and "The Pedestrian"by Ray Bradbury there are important similarities and differences about the uses for…

like the declining daylight after the summer solstice, our muscular strength and reaction time begin to wither. In later life, the stairs are no longer an option if the elevators around. The newsprint gets smaller and people begin to mumble. So begins…

Obesity is defined as enormous amount of weight caused by excessive accumulations of fat. Researchers of American Medical Association found that 56 percent of American adults are overweight and that 20 percent are obese. Obesity have great effects…