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Lowering Phase Once the push-up is completed, the person must precisely lower themselves back down to a prone position. In this phase, the same muscles are used as discussed in the pushing up phase, except in the opposite direction. Stabilizers The muscles being discussed are needed to help stabilize the body and keep it straight while doing a push-up. The primary muscles being examined are the abdominal muscles. These muscles are called the rectus abdominis. They are located in the anterior

A Kid’s Guide to Butterflies of Indiana By Elizabeth Zimnawoda 1. Text Introduction As a young Hoosier, you’ve probably noticed a lot of colorful butterflies flying around in your home state of Indiana. Have you ever wondered what the names of these butterflies are and in what areas you can find them? Well, look no further, because this book will give you those pieces of information, along with a bunch of other cool facts! After reading this book, you will be able to identify ten of the most common

isopods. In scientific names are called; billbugs, sowbugs and woodlice. According to Dr. Richard Brusca, approximately there are 10,000 of isopods live worldwide (tree from Brusca & Wilson 1991). Isopods have three body parts; head (=cephalon), thorax and abdomen (=plean). Isopods have a fourteen legs. Each side has seven legs. It has two antennas and also simple ayes. Isopods have range in length from 0.5mm to 500mm(Bathynomus giganteus). Isopods can walk plant, soil and wood. They can run faster

In the article, “Experience does not influence injury-related joint kinematics and kinetics in distance runners,” Agresta, Peacock, Housner, Zernicke, and Zendler are examining whether or not running experiences aides in the reduction of injury risk. The reason they decided to conduct this study is because early epidemiological studies and recent investigations have found that novice runners have a higher injury rate when compared to recreational runners and ultra-marathon runners. Among runners

the phenomenal apple. In a study by UK researchers in the American Journal of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, that adults who are to eat a minimum of two apples a week their asthma risk reduced by one third. A new study which further explains in Thorax, that mothers who ate apples during pregnancy were 27% less likely to have their child suffer from asthma or asthma symptoms until they were five years of age. This happens for a couple of reasons, firstly because an apple’s peel (especially the red

old dirty tool shed out back when I looked down, (I was wearing sandals) to see a small spider, a black widow less than inch from my left big toe. It touched my foot and I jumped, causing it to scatter and run. I could see the red spot on it, on the thorax, a signal that it was a female and ran inside. It didn’t bite me, but maybe if I had been a bit less observant, I would’ve been bitten and while it likely wouldn’t have killed me, it was the closest to harm I’ve ever come with a spider. Now if I could

Introduction In order for cells to grow, divide, and stay active, they must have sufficient energy. This energy comes from the oxidation of organic molecules such as glucose in respiration. Respiration is a series of oxidation taking place in all living cells releasing energy from organic compounds such as glucose. All respiration involves oxidation reactions and therefore all cells must have a constant supply of oxygen. In order for this to happen the exchange of gases between respiring cells

In “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston, she intrigues me with her imagery, which plays in when say talks about the music and how it made her see herself in colors. “ It constricts the thorax and splits the heart with its tempo and narcotic harmonies.(...) I dance wildly inside myself; I yell within, I whoop; (...) My face is painted red and yellow and my body is painted blue.” (2) It intrigues me that she felt so proud in her skin, even when she was surrounded by (pardon me)

The ex utero intrapartum treatment (EXIT) procedure is a partial delivery of the fetus with the fetal placental circulation maintained. This allows for management of the obstructed fetal airway by direct laryngoscopy, bronchoscopy, tracheostomy, or surgical intervention. The EXIT strategy has converted a potentially catastrophic problem during delivery of the fetus to a controlled environment. There has been about 100 procedures performed in the US to date. Advances in prenatal diagnosis of fetal

common species bees are honeybees and bumble bees. Although most of human kind considers bees as unnecessary and irrelevant, they play an important role in our ecosystem. Like any other insect, the anatomy of a bee consists of a head, antennae, and a thorax. The head is where the eyes, antennae, and the jaw are located. According to an article written by pesticide company Orkin, bees have two types of eyes, the compound and simple eyes. The compound eye is larger and allows the bees to “understand light