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also known as the western yellow pine The average height is 100- 150 feet tall. The highest recorded height is 230 feet. It is tall pine tree & is one of the most distinctive trees in the northwest. The cones are oval shaped, 3-6 inches long & have a stiff prickle at the end. It's a hardy, drought tolerant tree having thick protective bark comprised of stacked plates that sometimes like like puzzle pieces Location in columbia river basin: They grow at

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In a perpetually advancing technological society, digital privacy surpassed many other areas of concern. Ron Swanson, the leader of the Parks and Recreation department, decries any invasion of privacy. The idea that someone might know information about him opposes everything he believes in. Being hardcore, exemplifies Ron’s approach to life. He keeps his personal life secret, to the point that his own co-workers do not know when his birthday is, so when Ron receives a package addressed to him delivered

and information on Mount Kilimanjaro: Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa, the tallest free standing mountain in the world and rises approximately 5,895 metres above sea level. Mount Kilimanjaro has three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira volcanic cones are triangle-shaped hills formed as material from volcanic eruptions piles up around the volcanic vent, or opening in Earth's crust, Mount Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcanic mountain in Tanzania. Mt. Kilimanjaro Facts - Population

PHYSICS PROJECT TO STUDY THE OPTICAL LENS OF A HUMAN EYE Eyes are organs that detect light, and convert it to electro-chemical impulses in neurons. The simplest photoreceptors in conscious vision connect light to movement. In higher organisms the eye is a complex optical system which collects light from the surrounding environment; regulates its intensity through a diaphragm; focuses it through an adjustable assembly of lenses to form an image; converts this image into a set of electrical signals;

frequently referenced case involves Ben Cone, a disgruntled landowner from North Carolina who faced heavy land use restrictions resulting from the presence of 12 Red-Cockaded Woodpecker colonies on his property. The Red-Cockaded Woodpecker, or Leuconotopicus borealis, was very populous in the sandhills region of North Carolina for hundreds of years, inhabiting cavities in mature longleaf pine forests (Walters, 1991). Because the species was found on his property, Cone was restricted from harvesting 1,500

decreased vision, light sensitivity and lack colour vision. In 80% of cases, Achromatopsia results from recessive mutations in the genes CNGA3 and CNGB3, which both code part of the cone cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channels (Michalakis et al., 2017). CNG channels are vital in producing and regulating action potentials in cone cells and the retina in response to photoreceptor activation, and a loss in function results in a loss in electrical signalling in response to light (Koch and Dell'Orco, 2015).

The video begins by showing balls of a variety of colors after being tossed up slightly and beginning to bounce on a graduated blue surface. In the beginning, all the balls, which have a shadow as they bounce, seem to be bouncing in synchrony, are in clear focus, and are roughly the same size. However, as the video progresses, the color of the background continually changes and the shadows have seemingly disappeared. The balls are bouncing any which way, and seem to have spread out. The balls that

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a form of inherited retinal degeneration which effects two types of photoreceptors, rods and cones, the light-sensitive cells that convert light into nervous impulses. As the disease progresses, the rods would be degenerated initially, so the patients would found the decreasing night vision. Then the cones, which are responsible for diurnal vision, become affected. Whereas the rods are destroyed, the cones survive in the organism for extended periods, even after the occurrence of blindness as they