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Introduction: Microbiologists have developed a number of techniques suitable for the determination of microbial numbers in a sample. These include: 1. Direct microscopic enumer...

Space as we know it seems like a great expanse of emptiness but in actuality, it is filled with microscopic particles of gas and dust called interstellar medium no more than centimetr...

Think back to your days as a child, when an adult, for the very first time, tells you that a seemingly empty room is in fact, not empty but rather filled with invisible gases that we ...

Describe and explain the distribution of major earthquakes (4) The major earthquakes are located on the edge of continents or in the middle of the sea. There are 3 main belts tha...

Shonibare`s `The Swing (after Fragonard)` 2001 Extract from an essay written January 2014 In 2001, British Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare paraphrased the traditional Fragonard ...

I met a new student last night, and as I do with all new students, the focus of our session was for me to discover what their understanding of guitar was. Along the way, a very famili...

Constructionist and Network Theory perspectives of Education Inequality Introduction In `Methods of Discovery` (2004) Andrew Abbott shows how dramatically different the social ...

A. J. P. Taylor's often quoted assessment of the revolutions of 1848 as a turning point which 'failed to turn' typifies the notion of failure that the year 1848 evokes. In France, as...

The expectation of the Legislative Assembly, when it declared war on Austria in 1792, was a brief and victorious campaign. The number of wars, revolutions, and insurrections which fol...

The Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act was implemented by the British government in 1974, mainly in response to increasing tensions in Northern Ireland and the rise of...