Choice of film speed
Thesis - 2 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
A film is a basic tool for recording images in a camera. It is a flexible, transparent base, coated with light-sensitive emulsion containing silver halide crystals. When a black-and-white film is processed, silver halide crystals which had been exposed to light get reduced to black particles of...
Care of the equipment
Thesis - 2 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
The camera equipment can only be depended upon if it has been cared for. It should be treated as any other fine instrument - expensive and fragile. Manufacturers can make them rugged but we should not abuse them in use and handling. Proper maintenance is essential in storing, usage and in...
Camera lens
Thesis - 2 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
The main function of the camera lens is to focus the image sharply on the film. But they do a lot more than that: the lens aperture allows us to control the amount of light reaching the film and the depth of the field. Lenses are termed as ‘standard', ‘wide-angle' or ‘tele-photo'...
Language of photography
Thesis - 2 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Like any other profession or a technical job, photography as an art and as a science has some very distinct technical words which facilitate an easier communication of ideas and perceptions. Without them it would be almost impossible to communicate and get understood in an effort to do justice to...
Gardasil and human papillomavirus
Thesis - 2 pages - Medical studies
Every decade or so, mankind become more effective in the treatment and prevention of disease. It is merely, as I am sure Darwin would put it, how the human race proves to be the fittest of the earth. We have found ways to recognize what is harmful and either eradicate the problem or control it in...
Tips to enhance pc performance
Thesis - 2 pages - Computer science
PC performance may be greatly enhanced by modifying or ‘tweaking' a few of the default operating system settings. The optimization process differs for Windows XP and Windows Vista, so a section is devoted to each operating system providing a list to enhance pc performance on both Windows...
The synthesis of tert-pentyl chloride
Thesis - 3 pages - Physics
Synthesis of new compounds serves important practical purposes. The pharmaceutical industry continuously seeks and develops new compounds as potential drugs for treating disease. The agricultural industry also relies on synthesis to produce new organic chemicals for weed, pest, and fungi control....
Vaccination of fish against infectious diseases in aquaculture
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
The role of aquaculture in providing a sustainable source of seafood to an ever increasing world population has experienced tremendous growth in recent years. In combination with an increasing world population, the reduction in the wild harvest, changes in consumer eating habits, the economic...
Grooming behavior of rhesus monkeys raised in captivity
Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies
Much evidence has now accumulated in support of this theory, originally put forth by Sigmund Freud in 1940. This served as the foundation upon which Harry Harlow based his experiments in 1962 on the early rearing environments of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). He found somewhat contradictory...
Effect of dietary energy intake on egg production and bodyweight in white leghorn laying hens
Thesis - 6 pages - Medical studies
It is generally assumed that feeding a higher energy density diet will enhance the production of laying hens. The only outstanding question in most people's minds is at what point the higher cost of the high energy diet exceeds the value of improved animal performance. The key issue in this...
Arthritis pain bee gone: Bee venom as a treatment for arthritis
Essay - 1 pages - Medical studies
Arthritis is an inflammatory disease of the joints that often causes intense pain, restricted movement, and disfigurement. It is one of the world's leading debilitating conditions that can affect both men and women, young and old. It affects millions of people worldwide, and its diagnosis and...
A journey to heal
Thesis - 2 pages - Medical studies
Conventional Western medicine defines health as the absence of disease. This is generally what is sought by most people when they turn to traditional doctors, technology, and pharmaceuticals. For many, however, this solution will never provide complete healing, as the physical absence of...
Excitable tissue
Essay - 8 pages - Medical studies
*CNS contains about 1011 neurons. * The neuron is the basic building blocks of the N.S. * Muscle cells? contraction Neurons ? integration and transmission of nerve impulses * C.N.S neurons have different shapes a- 5 -7 processes ? dendrites, extended outward from the cell body. Dendrites have...
Some useful tips when you are photographing children
Thesis - 2 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Taking pictures of children, irrespective of their age is a complex and a fascinating subject. It is a subject that is challenging as well as frustrating, both for the heart and imagination of the photographer. The results can be very amusing, rewarding, disappointing but never for a moment...
Exposure meters
Thesis - 2 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
For a perfect negative or slide, correct exposure is a must. This can be achieved only when an exact amount of light (necessary to produce negatives with right density and color transparencies with pleasing colors) is allowed on the film through the lens of a camera. For amateur use, most modern...
Techniques for taking good sports photographs in some sporting events
Thesis - 2 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
By sports photography we mean taking pictures of sporting events that involve action and movement. If the pictures are not sharp and do not depict fast movement that take place in a sequence, the purpose of a good sports photograph will not be achieved. That exciting movement of action must be...
Cameras for general, specialized and highly specialized photography
Thesis - 2 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Nothing could be a greater myth than the blind belief that expensive cameras take better photographs. In fact, it is the man behind the camera that is important. Invariably, professional photographers are quizzed about the equipment they use. Sophisticated and expensive cameras are used for very...
Genetically modified food
Thesis - 3 pages - Biology
Genetically modified food made from genetic material (DNA) of a plant that has been changed in an unnatural way, also known as ‘genetic engineering'. Selected individual genes are transferred from one organism to another. However, traditional breeding cannot achieve the same effects using a...
Low-light photography
Thesis - 3 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Photography after sunset, very often considered impossible and difficult at best, is something which can be equally rewarding and challenging. It is attempted by very few because of ignorance and preconceived notions that it may not be possible. On the contrary, night photography is very easy. A...
Seeing photographically
Thesis - 2 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
There is quite a lot of difference between a camera recording a subject matter and the photographer looking at it. A photographer is likely to get carried away by things which a camera cannot record. All impressions of sound, smell and other compelling facets of a scene, even the wonderful fresh...
FOSS (Free and open source software)
Thesis - 6 pages - Computer science
The word free software means that the software has a free license and it gives everyone the right to use, study, modify, duplicate, distribute and sell the said software. Historically, Richard Stallman was the one who formalized the concept of free software in the first half of the 1980s and...
Impact of information technology in the world of health
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Medical studies
In the world of health, information technology is a real challenge. Internal communication is the key factor for success in a medical organization. For example: the physicians must be reachable at any time, and must constantly be able to ascertain the health of their patients and the latest...
The grounded theory
Thesis - 5 pages - Computer science
The methodology of Grounded Theory is increasingly being used in research in information systems. However, some researchers consider this method as having non-rigorous data points and therefore unacceptable for scientific research and the use of empirical data. The purpose of the article by...
Dawn of the information age
Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science
We live in an age of information. Every day we witness tremendous changes in the field of information technology. To understand the functioning of the information systems around us, we need to look into the meaning of the various terms used in this context. The term information system means any...
Hurray! No spam here
Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science
The proliferation of the Internet as a means of communication has been an immense boon to mankind. Millions of data are shared between users, companies and governments that enable quick transfer and processing of data. This has resulted in the creation of a global village where there are no...
Kanata: Adaptation and evolution in data sharing systems
Thesis - 3 pages - Computer science
The role of various elements employed in the adaptation and evolution of data systems is complex. This article elaborates a number of issues related to adaptation and changing data patterns. It includes the use of metadata. Metadata is employed in web pages and are used by search engines while...
Sorption and desorption of chromium in bentonite and kaolinite mixtures
Thesis - 6 pages - Physics
Chromium sorption in soil occurs under different conditions based on the oxidative state of the Cr ion. Variety of factors is influencing the sorption of Cationic Cr III in sub surface environments. In this study, sorption of Cr III has been studied in mixtures of different percentages of...
Agent oriented domain driven data mining
Thesis - 6 pages - Computer science
Data mining is the process of knowledge discovery in the database. The basic need of data mining in business is to help in improving the business. There are different types of businesses based on domains. Data mining has been recognized as an essential element of decision support, which has...
Facts based voltage sag mitigation and stability improvement in induction generator based wind farms
Thesis - 6 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
In recent years generation of electricity using directly connected asynchronous generator (induction generator) based Wind Energy Conversion Systems (WECS) has received considerable attention world wide. The connection of these Fixed Speed Induction Generators (FSIG) to the Point of Common...
Selecting informative features - a novel approach for the classification of large dataset
Thesis - 5 pages - Computer science
Feature subset selection plays an essential role in all data mining applications. It speeds up a data mining algorithm and improves mining performance. This paper proposes a novel approach of feature subset selection for classification problem. This approach aims to find common features from...
