18.1 Paper is made of cellulose fibers Paper was first made HARDWOOD FIBERS in China as early as AD 100, of mulberry bark, and then introduced to Western world by Arabs in eighth century. The first paper mills were built in spain in 11th century

In the chapter, we first define mutual inductance and study the methods whereby its effects are included in the circuit equations. We conclude with a study of the important characteristics of a linear transformer and an important approximation to a good iron-core transformer which is known as an ideal transformer

Example 2: Find the three inductance appearing in the T equivalent of the transformer shown in Fig., if L2=4H and the input inductance at A-B is 6H with C-D open-circuited, and 2H with C-D short-circuited

11.1 Binary Search Trees 1.Definition: A binary search tree is a binary tree that may be empty. nonempty binary search tree satisfies the following properties: 1)Every element has a key and no two elements have the same key: therefore,all keys are distinct

1. As an organizing principle for life a. We tend to think of kin as something natural biological or as having some basis beyond culture i. For example, children reuniting with birth parents b. Kinship is actually highly variable and artificial from one culture to the next

For best survival and quality of life, pediatric basic life support(BLS) should be part of a community effort that includes prevention, basic CPR, prompt access to the emer- gency medical services(EMS) system, and prompt pediatric advanced life support (PALS). These 4 links form the American Heart Association(AHA)

Population, environment and development For example World population has more than doubled in only 43 years, from 2.5 billion in 1950 to 5.5 billion in 1993. Unless death rates rise sharply, it may reach 11 billion by 2045, and 14 billion by 2100 Resources, economic development, and resource scarcity All countries seek economic growth: increasing their capacity to provide goods and services for final

1. Why investors diversify their portfolios internationally. 2. How much investors can gain from international diversification. 3. The effects of fluctuating exchange rates on international portfolio investments. 4. Whether and how much investors can benefit from investing in U.S. based international mutual funds. 5. The reasons for \home bias\ in portfolio holdings

Milk is a dilute emulsion consisting of an oil/fat dispersed phase and an aqueous colloidal continuous phase. The physical properties of milk are similar to those of water but are modified by the presence of various solutes (proteins, lactose and salts) in the continuous phase and by the degree of dispersion of the emulsified and colloidal components

It's really sort of amazing that people manage to communicate in the English language Here are some typical sentences: 1. You may have cake or you may have ice cream 2. If pigs can fly, then you can understand the Chernoff bound 3. If you can solve any problem we come up with then you get an a for the course. 4. Every American has a dream What precisely do these sentences mean? Can you have both cake and ice cream or must you choose just one desert? If the second sentence is true, then is the Chernoff bound incomprehensible? If you can solve some problems we come up with but not all, then do you get an a for the course? And can you still get an a even if you cant solve any of the problems? Does the last sentence imply that all Americans have the same dream or might