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Aquaculture development from ancient Egypt to modern commercial farming

Except for bucolic scenes of fishing on rivers meandering across the Midwest and Great Plains, most people don't equate fish with that region, at least not huge catches of commercial fish.

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School-based health clinics and student academic and health outcomes

Do School-based Health Clinics Improve the Academics and Health Outcomes of School Children? What's the Evidence? Do School-based Health Clinics Improve the Academics and Health Outcomes of School Children? What's the Evidence?

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Coca-Cola's differentiation strategy and sustainable competitive advantages

Coca-Cola pursues a differentiation strategy, and has built its company around the pursuit of this strategy. The strengths that the company has -- R&D, marketing, and heavy advertising -- all directly support the differentiation strategy.

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Immunological, demographic, and genetic factors in inflammatory bowel disease

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects the colon and the small intestine. Though there are many subtypes of IBD, the most common and well-known are Crowns disease and ulcerative colitis (WebMD.com, 2011).

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Focal vocabulary and kinesics in linguistic anthropology

Give an example of a set of Focal vocabulary (find actual words) that the Inuit use and how they use it. Explain why this usage is important to the Inuit daily lifestyle. Give an example.

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Water's essential functions in maintaining human body homeostasis

To live a fully healthy and functional life, water is indispensible. From the point in history when primitive species moved from the oceans to land, a major factor of survival has continually been stopping dehydration.

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EPA's toxicity assessment approach to carbon dioxide emissions regulation

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities of electricity, transportation, and industry that accounted for 84% of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from human activity in 2010 (Greenhouse Emissions: Carbon Dioxide Emissions).

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The greenhouse effect, global warming, and individual environmental action

Explain the greenhouse effect. What are the most important greenhouse gases? Like a greenhouse, the earth's atmosphere uses heat from the sun. Certain gases in the earth's atmosphere like water vapors, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane trap the sun's energy.

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Australia's carbon tax legislation and global warming response

The threat of global warming is no longer to be neglected and international action is coming to be taken, and even supported by federal institutions. In Australia, the government has focused on the development and implementation of a legislation to tax carbon emissions.

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Fossil fuel impacts on India's environment and rural communities

Fossil fuels are formed by anaerobic decomposition of organisms over a period of millions of years. When burnt, they produce significant amounts of energy per unit weight and cannot be reused to supply energy. They are thus nonrenewable resources.

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