...transplanted two populations of Trinidadian guppies (Aripo and El Cedro) that have been previously studied by Endler into areas with a similar decrease in predation to the Classic Aripo experiment (1980) in order to compare the path of evolution between them. Initially, the researchers noted that the “starting point” of the two populations differed in that there was limited evolution at the control site for El Cedro over 29 years which contrasts with the marked evolution of the El Cedro introduction population in 2-3 years. After cross-examining the two introductory populations, the researchers showed that “El Cedro introduction fish only evolved brighter iridescence” while the “Aripo introduction fish evolved more extensive black, orange, and iridescent markings” (pg. 4340). The researchers explained the difference in evolution with the three effects mentioned above. Namely, founder effects could explain the difference in the two populations as the small number of introduction fish could have evolved on a separate path to the control populations. Additionally, the difference between the two populations could be explained by Aripo female preferences for black, orange and...
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...TONE: GOLD BEIGE GOLD GOLD GOLD WARM GOLD COPPER AUBURN/ AUBURN ACCENT TONE: Gold/Mauve TONE: Yellow TONE: Yellow Yellow TONE: Yellow/Orange TONE: Orange TONE: Orange/Red BLACK TO GRAY BACKGROUND COLOR COPPER BROWN TONE: Red/Orange RED BROWN TONE: Red MAHOGANY VIOLET COPPER COPPER TONE: Violet/Red TONE: Orange/Orange RED RED VIOLET VIOLET TONE: Red TONE: Red/Violet TONE: Violet NO BACKGROUND COLOR BROWN TO TAN BACKGROUND COLOR 9 VERY LIGHT BLONDE LIGHT SHADES 8 LIGHT BLONDE 09T 09B 09N 09NB 09GB 09G 09AA 09RB 09V Chrome Sterling Cafe au Lait Irish Creme Butter Cream Vanilla Creme Papaya Blush Platinum Ice 08N 08GG NEW Mojave Gold Dip 08WG 08C 08MV 08V Golden Apricot Cayenne Cedar Iridescent Quartz 7 MEDIUM BLONDE 07NB 07GB 07G 07C 07CB 07MV Chestnut Butterscotch Saffron Curry Spicestone Birch 07V 07CC NEW Crushed Amethyst Urban Fever 5 LIGHT BROWN MEDIUM SHADES 6 DARK BLONDE 06T 06N 06NB 06GB 06G Iron Moroccan Sand Brandy Toffee St. Tropez 06GG NEW Midas Touch 06WG 06AA 06CB 06RB 06R Mango Bonfire Amber Glaze Cherry Cola Rocket Fire 05N 05G 05C 05CB Walnut Caramel Chili Brownstone 05RV 05CC NEW Sangria Electric Shock 4 MEDIUM BROWN 1 BLACK DARK SHADES 3 04WG Maple DARK BROWN 04NB Sun Tea 03N 03NB 03G 03A 03RB 03R 03RV 03V Espresso Mocha Java Cinnamon Terra Cotta Mahogany Roxy Red Merlot Orchid 01B Onyx NOTE: The level of deposit and intensity...
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...Drive through any given village in Bali and you’ll see vibrantly colored fighting roosters in woven cages pecking at the green-tipped grass at their feet. Come later and you’ll see the cocks taken out of their cages to be stroked and caressed by local men who sit together, enjoying the last rays of sunshine while discussing the qualities of their proud and elegant birds. Bali, like many other nations, has banned cock fighting as a cruel sport, although the practice is still allowed on the Island of the Gods for ceremonial purposes. These fighting birds are as much a part of Balinese Hindu rites as the burning of incense and giving offerings to the gods. Breeding the roosters, some of which boast feathers with a golden luster that evokes songket, takes place up in the cool, mountainous region above Gianyar. In a small hamlet called Malet, the birds are big business. Village head I Ketut Ludea says that while Malet raises about 600 roosters every year, most are sold to other communities nearby. The rest are used for local ceremonies. “In our village we must sacrifice birds before turning the soil to plant our crops, so we need around 250 birds for these ceremonies,” Ludea says. “We can sell the other 350 birds, which does not make this our most important revenue for the village, but a side job that many of us use for the education of our children.” Such children include Ledea’s 12-year-old grandniece, who studies English twice a week in nearby Tampak Siring...
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...genders. When people want to sell their product, they make an advertisement to get their product out there and so people can see it and want it. They reach out to different age group and target a current age or gender to make them want the product. The covergirl ad explicitly sells lipstick, but it implicitly sells beauty, luminous, and boldness to women. A “Covergirl” ad found in August 2014 issue of Glamour magazine features singer, songwriter, and actress Katy Perry in bright pink hot lipstick with hair flying to the side, silver star earrings and nails pink with tips of light grey and a gold unique ring. COVERGIRL easy breezy beautiful quoted at the top of the page. Words written in her hair say “Covergirl Katy Perry Stay luminous Iridescent new shaded that last up to 24 luminous hours. At the bottom of the page outlast illumina lipcolor 7 new shades, and then all the different colors you can buy it in. This covergirl advertisement wants to sell explicitly beauty and lipcolor. Furthermore, the ad implicitly sells Katy Perry to the women between ages 14 and 35....
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...Conservation of glass in Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology By Jane Pannell Over the last ten years, the institute has been excavating two extremely important sites: Serce Liman and Kas. Dating to approximately A.D. 1025, the shipwreck at Serce Liman has yielded the largest collection of Medieval Islamic glass yet known. The Bronze Age site at Kas, at present the oldest shipwreck in the world, dates to around 1350 B.C. and has produced a surprising quantity of glass. Today I will discuss the conservation methods and techniques used to preserve these finds. The decomposition of glass is essentially a preferential leaching and diffusion of alkali ions, across a hydrated porous silica network Factors effecting this decomposition are: 1. The composition of the glass itself 2. The composition and pH of the attacking solution 3. The temperature of the attacking solution 1. Time. The composition of the glass will determine its stability. Glass is composed of a network former -silica, and alkaline modifier such as sodium or potassium oxide, and calcium oxide, the positively charged ions of which will stabilize the negative ions of the alkali. The composition of most glass from archaeological contexts is unbalanced and much ancient glass is lost as a result of decomposition arising from excess alkali in the basic formula, insufficient calcium to stabilize it, or imperfect mixing of ingredients due to inadequate heating during manufacture. This results in alkali which is...
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...Antoni Gaudi Anotoni Gaudi as an architect and designer he is the one of the most internationally prestigious figures in Spanish arcutecture. He gets many of his inspiration from natural In Gaudi's work, it is suitable to appreciate his point of view as painter and sculptor. For him color was light, and whether he was using pure or iridescent shades, gold or silver, aspect and tone were just as important as the quality and durability of the pigment. All of Gaudi's designs began life as three-dimensional models in clay or plaster that allowed him to play with materials with maximum degree of creative freedom. It is basically for this reason that his furniture gives the impression that it has been made out of some wholly malleable and soft, absolutely plastic material. The absence of symmetry is a constant characteristic in Gaudi's work. As in nature, nothing in Gaudi's buildings or in his furniture is absolutely identical. When he came to design a piece of furniture he always thought about the person who was to use it and particularly about his bones, to which the form of the object had to be perfectly adapted. Gaudi designed the first set of furniture in a naturalistic style, under the new influence of Modernism whose resonance can be seen beginning to emerge in its sinuous, plant-like lines, working with forms in which it seems as if the grain of the wood has mastered the cabinetmaker. Nature itself laid down the law, with growth determining the forms in...
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...A New Day It is an early morning in the middle of a warm summer. I am on my familiar route heading to the beach. It usually takes me 5 minutes to walk there from home. Everything is still immersed in the darkness and coldness. The night’s dew remains on the leaves. The chilly winds gently rustle through the swaying coconut trees, and the waves crash the shore. These are the only sounds I can hear. In front of me looms a vast blue sea. It cannot be easier for me to find a good position to observe the sunrise at this time. While people are dreaming their dreams, I am enjoying my favorite part of a day. I leisurely settle down and wait with the excitement. A red streak is appearing at the horizon, growing until it spreads into an iridescent pink path. The sun is there, pink and round, still with the beauty just like the first time I ever saw it. Everything around me seems to not exist. The bigger and higher the fireball is, the more red and dazzling it is. The moment the sun changes its color from pink, red, into white happens in just a few seconds, and I never doubt that it is worth every milliseconds. I regret moving my eyes away from the source of light, down from the sky to the sea. The light starts covering a larger area and becomes too dazzling to observe. The darkness disappears into the nothingness to make room for more radiant colors of the blue sea, white sand, green coconut trees, and golden sunshine. I feel completely relaxed in this beautiful natural place. The...
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...Raphael Madonna in the Meadow Oil on panel 1505 Figure 4.16 The artist Raphael painted the Madonna in the Meadow when he was in his twenties in Florence. The painting is also known as Madonna del Belvedere. The painting is currently held in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Light: There are multiple sources of lights in this painting. The most obvious is the light from the sky. Although you can see clouds, the sky lights up the scene behind the Virgin Mary. There appears to be light that makes Christ and St. John light up. Their figures are almost iridescent as well as the Virgin Mary’s foot. Color: The colors in this portrait are mostly subdues except for the Virgin Mary’s dress. The red and the blue in the dress are very bold. The scene behind them appears serene because of the greens and the light blues. The shading on the children’s bodies makes parts of their bodies glow. Shape: The figures in this work appear to be arranged in a pyramidal form. The way the Virgin Mary is sitting and the children are placed in front of her form a pyramid. The mountains behind her also appear in a pyramid shape. Space: The backgrounds of the mountains appear very light and the blue leading up to the top of the portrait display a great amount of atmospheric perspective. Much of the background is also taken up by the green around Mary and the children. The subtle flower popping up also fills the space. Texture: The texture in this work are also very organic. The green...
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...The poem that I wrote is about “ Writer “ by Richard Wilbur. The theme of “Writer” the speaker is a father speaking about his daughter who also writes. The tone is one of compassion and empathy. He understands the feelings of his daughter. The author used both metaphor and simile to set the tone of the poem. The metaphor is very important to this poem, because it giving the reader to his/her mind of what has been discussed, helping the reader understand the concept and make easier to understand. And make writing more interesting. Writing without metaphors would be less interesting. The...
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...Flipping through--Modern Bride, Vogue, Today’s Bride, Elegant Bride and Bridal Guide Magazine’s—marked the precursor to the most exhilarating day of my life. I could not afford the dress of my dreams. Earmarking each page to a designer’s image, I chose my favorite parts of each dress. To illustrate, I had a seamstress piece together an exquisite satin fabric sparkling white hand stitched lace mermaid dress; the first of its kind, in my mind. I wanted to set myself apart from the traditional style to something superbly my taste. Indeed, the iridescent pearl studded veil surrounded a faux pearl crown that made me feel regal. The rich melanin in my skin and the support of my family afforded me the sweet wedding I had. For example, the Hispanic or Latino tradition is to have sponsors for the...
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...Description—“Once More to the Lake” September 18, 2015 Covent Garden As the transformation to dawn reached its conclusion, the charcoal abyss of night had all but diminished, leaving behind only remnants of silvery darkness in the wispy, blue sky as far as the eye could see. Iridescent stars, no bigger than fleas, could still be seen peppered in the distance. Stalls had materialized, side by side, flooding both sides of the street, their brilliantly colored canopies gently billowing in the early morning breeze. Enthusiastic shouts of advertisement crescendoed as the first crowd of the day trickled past the strip of vendors. Buildings dressed in fluorescent paints towered above me, their neon pinks and yellows reflecting vividly in puddles from the last night’s rain. Baskets, rich with fully bloomed petunias, were hung daintily at every lamppost. The wind blew softly, wafting the bold smells of exotic spices down the historic walkway of Neal’s Yard. Clotheslines bearing fabrics of every shape and color were splayed haphazardly from window to window, casting shadows on the dampened cobblestones. Mothers shooed their wide-eyed children past the cornucopia of toys around them as pigeons trotted alongside their civilized acquaintances, imploring for food at the feet of the young and the elderly alike. Street performers stationed themselves sporadically along the streets with hopeful hearts and amplifiers as their only companions. An amalgam of buses, taxis, and cars littered...
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...Company/Entity 1st Detect Corporation City Austin Project Description Mass spectrometer Awarded $1,800,000 Advanced Receiver Technologies Agile Planet AgileMesh Dallas Austin Richardson Digital baseband receiver Robotic control in advanced manufacturing Surveillance equipment $250,000 $1,000,000 $2,000,000 Axelo Biscotti Austin McKinney Motion-sensing 3D game controller HD Video calling $250,000 $1,000,000 Carbon Nanotechnologies Device Fidelity Faradox Energy Storage Houston Richardson Austin Single-walled nanotubes Removable secure transaction chipcards High-energy capacitors $975,000 $3,000,000 $1,000,000 Firefly LED Lighting Hanson Robotics InView Technologies Corporation Iridescent Networks itRobotics Merkatum Austin Richardson Austin Frisco Stafford Austin LED lamps Animatronic robotics High-performance infrared cameras Network comm. node for low-latency switching Oil & Gas pipe inspection Biometric ID devices $3,000,000 $1,500,000 $1,500,000 $1,000,000 $750,000 $1,000,000 Nanocoolers Austin Nanoelectronic cooling system $3,000,000 OptiSense Network Bridgeport Electro-optic HV sensor $1,500,000 PrincipleSoft Plano Wireless video transmission $750,000 Company/Entity City Project Description Awarded SmartField SNRLabs Lubbock Richardson Remote sensing for precision agriculture Wireless convergence manager $1,000,000 $750,000 StarVision Technologies Stellarray...
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...For my independent project, I created a watercolor landscape of the beach. This landscape included a sunset filled with silhouettes of seagulls, and a sandy shore with crashing waves. This shore is covered with rocks, and grass which hide the crabs scattering across the shore. I chose to create this project because it tied back to a memory. Before my grandmother passed, she would always take us to the beach when we visited. She taught me how to swim, and even fly kites on the beach. So, when I had started my project I knew I wanted to recreate something from my childhood. I chose to include the crabs on the shore not only to help fill space, but because I also was on the beach the first time I saw a real crab with my grandmother. At the beginning...
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...Imagine that you are outside on a clear summer’s night, when all of a sudden a flash catches your eye. You whirl around in bewilderment as the black night sky flashes and dances with a whirling array of colors. The northern horizon is draped with an iridescent green, deep blues, sharp violets, scarlet reds, and bright oranges and yellows. You stand awestruck as the colors descend, like a melting rainbow, across the sky. Then, as quickly as they appeared, they vanish without a trace. This natural phenomenon is known as aurora borealis, or the northern lights, or better known as the dancing lights. Aurora Borealis is one of the most exotic and difficult concepts in astronomy. The colours of aurora borealis are fomed by the collision of gas particles in the Earth’s atmosphere with charged electrons from the sun’s atmosphere. So, today I will inform you about the different types of gas particles that are involved in the production of the colours of aurora borealis. I obtained the all the information about Aurora Borealis from the book entitled The Amazing Northern Lights authored by Syun-Ichi Akasofu. First of all, the big player in the formation of lights of the aurora borealis is oxygen. Oxygen is responsible for the vivid green light and also for a deep brownish red light. The emission of the deep brownish red light occurs at high altitudes of the aurora. At high altitudes, the earth’s atmosphere contains a greater percentage of atomic oxygen and is very thin like...
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...that he has difficulties and hardships, but works through them so maybe one day his problems will be less challenging and less frequent. The author depicted Doodle as imaginative by articulating, “ My lies were scary, involved, and usually pointless, but Doodle’s were twice as crazy. People in his stories all had wings and flew wherever they wanted to go. His favorite lie was about a boy named Peter who had a pet peacock with a ten-foot tail. Peter wore a golden robe that glittered so brightly that when he walked through the sunflowers they turned away from the sun to face him. When peter was ready to go to sleep, the peacock spread his magnificent tail, enfolding the boy like a closing go-to-sleep flower, burying him in the gloriously iridescent, rustling vortex”(Hurst 468). While Doodle is his early childhood he is able come up with these pictorial stories like the one seen above. It is known that children and adolescents who have a powerful imagination are highly intelligent. So whereas Doodle may seem slow or underdeveloped, the fact that his imagination soars to high heights can give the reader a sense that Doodle may actually be more intelligent and prone to understanding educational properties than he seems to be. The author characterizes Doodle as sensitive by writing, “ I lifted him out and set him down in the soft rubber grass beside a tall pine. His eyes were round with wonder as he gazed about him, and his little hands began to stroke the rubber grass. Then he began...
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