Science & Technology Essays and Term Papers

is to find out their child has been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Better known as ADHD or ADD, this developmental disorder has been causing many problems in the schools of America. ADD is controversial in the sense that…

in bandages and buried deep inside a pyramid. Egyptian mummies are the most familiar to the majority ,however, mummies have been found in many places around the world such as Greenland, China and the Andes Mountains and are not always deliberately…

of producing a condition akin to vampirism, I wish to write about an old line of reasoning on how vampires manage to survive on a diet which contains so much water and so little else. Speculation on the subject of the dietary requirements of vampires…

used in industry does not need to resemble a human, normallly those used in industry only need a single human type part, the most common part used is the arm. These manipulative arms are used to paint anything, simple assembly, or solder electronic compo…

in the lungs on the tips of the bronchioles composed of squamous epithelial tissue. About 300 million of them are located in the lungs. An alveolus is about 200 µm in diameter. The alveoli are covered with a fluid named surfactant, which plays…

of the central nervous system, which is composed of the brain and spinal cord. These birth defects are often referred to a neural tube defect. In this brith defect a part of the spine which normally surrounds and protects the spina cord or…

affecting us in more ways than previously thought. The usage of fossil fuels increases as the population increases. When a baby is born the immediate need for fossil fuels are increased. One example of this is the immediate need for fuel used to heat…

is all about. Essentially it is a "UNIX-like" operating system that can be used in either a server or desktop environment. If you've ever used UNIX on large systems or workstations such as those of Sun and SGI, you'll feel right at home on Linux.…

or perhaps a source of philosophical thought which one adopts as an evolutionist or chooses when one has a particular worldview? Evolution actually has philosophical ramifications, ones I want to examine in this essay. Evolution means several things…

a topic I wondered about but knew very little information on. I was about fifteen years old when I first became familiar with SIDS. Waking up to the flashing red and blue lights as the sound of the loud siren became closer and closer, I looked out…