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    A Muckraking Investigator Ida Tarbell was a woman who had a whole bunch of ambition. She achieved a lot of accomplishments in her life. She didn’t let anything get in her way. Ida Tarbell was a strong willed woman who revealed the monopoly of the Standard Oil Company, created a new type of journalism, and became famous for doing something she loved. She was one of the most important magazine writers of the 20th century. Ida Tarbell was born on November 5th, 1857 to an oil producer. She was…

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    Quadrat Sampling

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    provided in the curve and the table shows that 3 is the density of pill bugs in the area. The second method for estimating abundance is the mark recapture method. When performing this method the average population estimate is 190.211 beans. The standard error is 5.15812 and the 95% confidence limit is among 180.1010 beans to 200.3209 beans. The total number of beans is 239 beans do not fall into the confidence limit intervals. We can conclude that our true abundance does not fall within the…

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    Fly Phenotypes Lab Report

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    1. Objective The objective of this lab is to test whether the dominant phenotype in flies is actually straight wings red-eyed using data stimulated from the FlyLab software. Hypothesis The mode of inheritance in flies is that red eyed, straight winged flies are the wildtype characteristics that are autosomal dominant and white-eyed, vestigial wings are the mutated characteristics. 2. Methods a. Performed a cross between a red-eyed straight winged female fly and a white-eyed, vestigial winged…

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    Inter-Observer Errors are critical in understanding the data as a whole. It’s to understand the error that comes with the interpretation of two or more individuals making observations of the same issue. This is a sole reason why scientists take multiple data sets in order to weed out these inter-observer errors. It can affect the end result, or calculation resulting in human bias. They are very similar, as my handedness quotient was 60 which is closer to 100 than to 0 (Ambi) which relates to…

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    Kumho Tire Case Study

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    The general standards for admissibility of evidence are that it must be relevant, contain a probative value, and must be free of prejudicial bias. The evidence is relevant if it has the propensity to make a fact more or less credible than it would be without the evidence, and the facts of consequence in determining the action. The probative value depends on satisfying the basic requirement of relevancy as described above, but also upon the existence of any matter of fact. For example, if…

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    John D. Rockefeller was considered one of the first major philanthropists and entrepreneurs of the United States. He created the Standard Oil Company and from then, he revolutionized refinery production. It is important to analyze and study the methods he used and the period of time he used them in. The time period plays a major role because there was no industries being established around 1865 and yet Rockefeller managed to gain about ninety percent of the nations capacity of the refinery…

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    Assignment Numbers 90-101

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    Assign numbers to represent the batteries. I will assign the batteries in working condition the numbers 0-89 based on how they come off the production line in working condition 90% of the time. Next, numbers 90-99 will represent the defective batteries because of the 10%. Then, I’ll count by twos and move across the row. I’ll then count how many times working or defective batteries occur. A trial is when 10 working batteries are found. We will see how many batteries it takes on average to get…

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    techniques were used to force rival oil companies into a predicament where they would have to sell the company to Standard Oil or go bankrupt.Additionally, Standard Oil purchased its own forest land for wood to make barrels. This lowered in-house costs, putting the company at an advantage. In 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Standard Oil violated the country's anti-trust laws. Standard Oil dissolved, and its holdings were divided into 30…

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    According to table 2, body postures show significant differences in working stages (P=0.2) The most important and striking difference is related to body`s neutral position. The results show that body`s neutral position makes up 61.7% workers` working time. Body`s neutral position accounts for 57% of body posture in foundation, 55% in carcass, and 63.8 % in finishing stage. In other words, most body`s neutral positions were observed in foundation. Gentle bending posture was reported 21.2%. This…

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    /* 1 */ - This variable is equal to a constructor function called Winston. A constructor function is a function that is called everytime a new instance of this variable is created The parameters of this specific function are nickname, age, x, and y. /* 2 */ - In this line, this. refers to the current object instance which in this case is nickname. It is basically saying that the nickname property of this is equal to whatever is passed in the constructor function itself. This object is…

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