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• Francisco José de Goya y LucientesIINTRODUCTIONFrancisco de GoyaOne of the great masters of Spanish art, painter and illustrator Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes produced works ofconsiderable beauty and power.

  Gallery, Washington, D.C.) show that Goya was then painting in an elegant manner somewhat reminiscent of the style of his English contemporary ThomasGainsborough. IV ETCHINGS AND LATER PAINTINGS Third of May, 1808Third of May, 1808 was painted by Spanish artist Francisco de Goya in 1814. His purpose was to commemorate theSpanish war of liberation, during which a number of innocent civilians were shot by soldiers from Napoleon’s army. At thislate stage in Goya’s career, he had become cynical...

• Chromosome.

  chromosome breaks off and attaches to another chromosome. A translocation involving chromosomes 9 and 22 is linked to a type of leukemia called chronic myelogenicleukemia. On the sex chromosomes, problems arise in men when an abnormal gene is present on the X chromosome. With no healthy gene found on the Y chromosometo override the abnormal gene, disease may result. For example, men who inherit a mutated gene that causes hemophilia from their mother on the X chromosome willdevelop this bleeding...

• Araña - ciencias de la naturaleza.

  Viuda negraLa viuda negra es una especie venenosa. Su veneno es una neurotoxina, que afecta a los nervios como los que controlan larespiración. En los seres humanos, la picadura de esta araña suele ser más tóxica para los niños que para los adultos.J.A.L. Cooke/Oxford Scientific Films Las arañas son por lo general carnívoras y se alimentan sólo de presas vivas. Pueden aplastarlas por medio de los pedipalpos, y los quelíceros casi siempre tienen glándulasque les permiten inyectar veneno. La picad...

• Avión - ciencia y tecnologia.

  flujo incide en el ala. También es proporcional, para valores medios, a la inclinación del ángulo de ataque del eje de la superficie de sustentación respecto al de la corrientede aire. Para ángulos superiores a 14 grados, la sustentación cambia con rapidez hasta llegar a la pérdida total cuando, por efecto de esos valores, el aire se mueveproduciendo torbellinos en la superficie de las alas. En esta situación se dice que el perfil aerodinámico ha entrado en pérdida. Cuando un avión está mantenie...

• Reproducción vegetal - ciencias de la naturaleza.

  Ciclo biológico de una gimnosperma (conífera)© Microsoft Corporation. Reservados todos los derechos. Los sacos polínicos contienen las células madres del polen (diploides), que por meiosis forman los granos de polen (haploides). El óvulo está cubierto por tegumentos ycontiene la célula madre del saco embrionario, que sufre una meiosis y forma cuatro células, de las que sólo subsiste una, la cual da lugar al saco embrionario, que es unacélula con ocho núcleos. Tres de estos núcleos se sitúan en u...

• Fruto - ciencias de la naturaleza.

  penetra en el óvulo, donde puede fecundarlo. Si lo fecunda, el óvulo se transforma en semilla y el receptáculo que protege el ovariose ensancha y forma la carne o pulpa del fruto.© Microsoft Corporation. Reservados todos los derechos. En los casos típicos, el fruto se limita al ovario maduro, como ocurre en la vaina del guisante (chícharo); en cambio, la manzana incluye ovario y receptáculo —el conjuntode las demás piezas florales soldadas—; la fresa es en realidad una infrutescencia formada por...

• Eukaryote - biology.

  The waste is then expelled through a hole in the fused membrane. In complex animals, cells generate wastes such as urea when nutrients are broken down within cells.These wastes are transported by blood to the kidneys. The kidneys process the waste and produce urine, which is removed from the body through the bladder.Undigested food travels through the tubelike intestines and is eliminated through the digestive system. V EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS Eukaryotes evolved much later than prokaryotes, whose...

• San Jose (California) - geography.

  The San Jose metropolitan area is an economic powerhouse. It is the single most important high-technology center in the United States, specializing in aerospace andcomputer technology. Assisting in the area’s steady innovation is its many venture capital firms, which loan money to entrepreneurs starting new companies. It isestimated that the region contains one-half of the leading venture capital firms in the world. Among the nation’s largest companies in the San Jose metropolitan regionare Inte...

• Malaria.

  last long and is unlikely to be fatal. Infants and children are especially vulnerable to malaria because they have not yet built up immunity to the parasite. Some peoplehave genetic traits that help them resist malaria. Sickle-cell anemia and thalassemia, for example, are inherited blood disorders linked to malaria resistance. Travelers who lack immunity to malaria should take precautionary measures when visiting areas where the disease is prevalent. Such measures include using insectrepellents,...

• Ácido desoxirribonucleico (ADN) - ciencias de la naturaleza.

  4 REPLICACIÓN En casi todos los organismos celulares, la replicación de las moléculas de ADN tiene lugar en el núcleo, justo antes de la división celular. Empieza con la separación de lasdos cadenas de polinucleótidos, cada una de las cuales actúa a continuación como plantilla para el montaje de una nueva cadena complementaria. A medida que la cadenaoriginal se abre, cada uno de los nucleótidos de las dos cadenas resultantes atrae a otro nucleótido complementario previamente formado por la célu...

• Genética - ciencias de la naturaleza.

  5 HERENCIA CUANTITATIVA Los caracteres que se expresan como variaciones en cantidad o extensión, como el peso, la talla o el grado de pigmentación, suelen depender de muchos genes, así comode las influencias del medio. Con frecuencia, los efectos de genes distintos parecen ser aditivos, es decir, parece que cada gen produce un pequeño incremento o descensoindependiente de los otros genes. Por ejemplo, la altura de una planta puede estar determinada por una serie de cuatro genes: A, B, C y D....

• Sangre - ciencias de la naturaleza.

  Leucocito granulosoLos glóbulos blancos presentes en la sangre incluyen los leucocitos granulosos y los no granulosos. Los leucocitos granulososrepresentados aquí son células polimorfonucleares que tienen un aspecto granular, de ahí su nombre común.Andrew Syred/Science Photo Library/Photo Researchers, Inc. Las células o glóbulos blancos de la sangre son de dos tipos principales: los granulosos, con núcleo multilobulado, y los no granulosos, que tienen un núcleo redondeado.Los leucocitos granulos...

• Denver - geography.

  Denver is the center of professional sports in the Rocky Mountain region. Major league teams are the Denver Broncos (football), Colorado Rockies (baseball), DenverNuggets (basketball), and Colorado Avalanche (ice hockey). Coors Field (opened in 1995) is the home of the Colorado Rockies. The Broncos began play at the newlyconstructed Invesco Field at Mile High in 2001, and the Nuggets and Avalanche play at the Pepsi Center. The National Western Stock Show and Rodeo, one of thelargest such shows i...

• Síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida (SIDA) - ciencias de la naturaleza.

  se multiplica a una gran velocidad, sufriendo diversas mutaciones genéticas. Al principio, se produce un descenso de la cifra de linfocitos T CD4 pero, al poco tiempo, lascifras normales se recuperan en respuesta a una activación del sistema inmunológico. Durante esta etapa los individuos son altamente contagiosos. El paciente entra entonces en un periodo libre de síntomas (fase asintomática) cuya duración puede ser superior a diez años. Durante ésta, el virus continúa replicándosecausando una d...

• Mamífero - ciencias de la naturaleza.

  diversas funciones: protege ante daños de tipo mecánico, evita la invasión de gérmenes y regula la pérdida de calor y humedad del cuerpo. En muchos mamíferos, el colorde la piel o del pelo se confunde con el entorno donde habita el animal, de manera que le ofrece camuflaje y protección frente a los depredadores. Otras veces existe ungran contraste, lo cual favorece la comunicación visual y proporciona información sobre la identidad de la especie, el género, la edad o la posición jerárquica o soc...

• Barbados - country.

  Barbados is served by a public library system centered in Bridgetown. B Culture The culture of Barbados combines English institutions, which evolved through more than three centuries of English rule, with a folk culture of African origin. Because ofits English traditions, Barbados is sometimes called “Little England.” Cricket has traditionally been the national game, and the island has produced some of the sport’sgreatest players. Water sports including surfing, swimming, snorkeling, and sailin...

• Leukemia.

  leukemia, and normal or mildly decreased in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Nearly all chronic leukemia patients have increased white cell counts. In chronic myelocyticleukemia, some of these leukemic white cells are capable of functioning as normal cells do by fighting infectious microbes. Hence, infection is no more common than in ahealthy individual. In chronic lymphocytic leukemia the blood contains large numbers of malignant lymphocytes that do not function normally. Normal lymphocytescoexist...

• Anfibio - ciencias de la naturaleza.

  las ranas, que tienen una cavidad media que transmite las vibraciones desde la membrana timpánica al oído interno. Las ranas y los sapos también utilizan su sentido deloído para comunicarse unas con otras. Además, tanto las ranas macho como las hembra, utilizan las cuerdas vocales presentes en la laringe para producir sonidos, cuyaprincipal función es atraer a la pareja para reproducirse; también realizan sonidos en las disputas territoriales. Las salamandras, las cecilias y algunas ranas carece...

• Electric Motors and Generators.

  the armature. It is often desirable to generate as high a voltage as possible, and rotating armatures are not practical in such applications because of the possibility of sparkingbetween brushes and slip rings and the danger of mechanical failures that might cause short circuits. Alternators are therefore constructed with a stationary armaturewithin which revolves a rotor composed of a number of field magnets. The principle of operation is exactly the same as that of the AC generator described,...

• Greenhouse Effect.

  addition, humans cut down huge tracts of trees for lumber or to clear land for farming or building. This process, known as deforestation, can both release the carbonstored in trees and significantly reduce the number of trees available to absorb carbon dioxide. As a result of these human activities, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is accumulating faster than Earth’s natural processes can absorb the gas. By analyzing airbubbles trapped in glacier ice that is many centuries old, scientists have d...

• Soil. I INTRODUCTION Soil, the loose material that covers the land surfaces of

  an exchange between plants and the atmosphere, as oxygen diffuses into the soil and is used by roots for respiration. In turn, the resulting carbon dioxide diffusesthrough pore spaces and returns to the atmosphere. This exchange is most efficient in soils with a high degree of porosity. For farmers, gardeners, landscapers, andothers with a professional interest in soil health, the process of aeration—making holes in the soil surface to permit the exchange of air—is a crucial activity. Theburrowi...

• Japón - geografía.

  parte a los vientos noroccidentales procedentes de Siberia y la corriente fría de Ojotsk (u Oya Shivo), que fluye hacia el sur en el mar del Japón (mar Oriental). Hacia el sury el este de esta región la influencia de la corriente cálida de Kuro-Shivo modera los inviernos. En Shikoku, Kyūsh ū y en el sur de Honsh ū los veranos son cálidos yhúmedos, casi subtropicales, y los inviernos son templados con pocas nevadas. Japón se encuentra en el camino de los monzones surorientales, que aportan bastan...

• Koala - biology.

  V REPRODUCTION Female koalas become sexually mature around 18 to 24 months of age. They can produce one offspring a year until they reach about 13 years of age. Males begin toproduce sperm around age 2 and, in the absence of older, stronger males, they may breed at that young age. More often, however, a male must grow big enough tocompete with other males for females, and mating generally begins for males at about 4 years of age. The breeding season for koalas is from October to May, during the...

• Neandertals.

  Neandertals made stone tools by striking flakes from rock “cores.” The cores were carefully selected and prepared so that only a single blow was normally required todetach a flake. A number of relatively standardized flakes were sometimes produced from a single core. These sharp flakes served as “blanks” that were further workedand shaped into the desired tools. Suitable stone was sometimes rare, and often tools were sharpened and resharpened to make new tools, yielding a whole variety ofshapes...

• Poliomyelitis.

  Physical therapy helps patients with paralytic polio stretch and move affected muscles. This movement minimizes the atrophy, or shrinkage, of affected muscles andlimbs and builds strength. Exercises can also retrain working muscles to compensate for other muscles that have permanently lost the ability to move. Rehabilitativetherapy trains patients to use braces, crutches, and other devices that provide support and aid mobility. V PREVENTION OF POLIO Immunization with polio vaccine is the best w...

• Aztec Empire.

  tribute to the empire in agricultural products, which were used to finance public projects. All able-bodied men owed military service to the empire. Citizens could also bedrafted to work on public lands or build temples, dikes, aqueducts, and roads. Although Aztec society had strict classes, a person’s status could change based on his or her contribution to society. Commoners could improve their rank, especially byperforming well in battle, and become prosperous landowners. Young people of some...

• Aztec Empire - USA History.

  tribute to the empire in agricultural products, which were used to finance public projects. All able-bodied men owed military service to the empire. Citizens could also bedrafted to work on public lands or build temples, dikes, aqueducts, and roads. Although Aztec society had strict classes, a person’s status could change based on his or her contribution to society. Commoners could improve their rank, especially byperforming well in battle, and become prosperous landowners. Young people of some...

• Hong Kong - geography.

  higher than China’s average standard of living. In 2006 Hong Kong’s per capita gross domestic product (GDP) was $27,679.20, although much of the wealth isconcentrated into relatively few hands. IV ECONOMY Hong Kong’s position as one of the world’s most important economic centers is based on several factors. It is located midway between Japan and Singapore, and it liesastride the main shipping and air routes of the western Pacific. It also has long served as a major port of entry and trade for...

• Estados Unidos de América - geografía.

  los Grandes Lagos incrementan este tipo de precipitaciones. En enero, se da un tiempo de intenso frío y escasa caída de nieve, a causa de que las masas de aire delAtlántico no pueden penetrar muy al norte en pleno invierno. Finalmente, las ocasionales tormentas en la kona (costa oeste) de Hawai durante el invierno son consecuencia de la entrada de masas de aire procedentes del norte del Pacífico que aprovechan el desplazamiento de la corriente en chorro hacia el sur. El régimen de lluvias habi...

• Glacier.

  covered. In spring the snow cover begins to melt in the lower reaches, exposing the ice surface. As temperatures increase, the melting moves up the glacier. Thesnowline is the highest position the melting reaches during the year. Firn is old granular snow. The firn limit may not exactly coincide with the annual snowline since insome years rapid melting leaves behind firn patches below the snowline. Some glaciers exhibit features called ice streams and icefalls. Ice streams are valley glaciers th...

• Fossil Fuels.

  water molecules. This crystalline solid is known as gas hydrate. Because technology for the commercial extraction of gas hydrates has not yet been developed, this typeof fossil fuel is not included in most world energy resource estimates. However, in February 2007 the U.S. Department of Energy completed the drilling of a well toretrieve core samples of gas hydrates found in the Prudhoe Bay region of Alaska’s North Slope. By identifying the nature of these gas hydrates, the Energy Departmenthoped...

• Air Pollution.

  Several pollutants attack the ozone layer. Chief among them is the class of chemicals known as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), formerly used as refrigerants (notably in airconditioners), as agents in several manufacturing processes, and as propellants in spray cans. CFC molecules are virtually indestructible until they reach thestratosphere. Here, intense ultraviolet radiation breaks the CFC molecules apart, releasing the chlorine atoms they contain. These chlorine atoms begin reacting withozone, br...

• Alemania - geografía.

  vecinos. Un acuerdo internacional ejemplar obliga a Alemania a ayudar en la protección medioambiental del Waddenzee o mar de Wadden, el brazo oriental del mar delNorte que comparte con Países Bajos y Dinamarca. Alemania firmó el Convenio sobre el Patrimonio de la Humanidad en 1976 y cuenta con nueve reservas de la biosferareconocidas por el programa El Hombre y la Biosfera de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (UNESCO). Además, existen unaserie de l...

• Marketing.

  Where advertising reaches a mass audience, personal or direct selling focuses on one customer at a time. That kind of individual attention makes direct sellingexpensive, but it also makes it effective. As the costs of personal selling have risen, the utilization of salespeople has changed. Simple transactions are completed byclerks. Salespeople are now used primarily where the products are complex and require detailed explanation, customized application, or careful negotiation over priceand paym...

• Océanos y oceanografía - ciencias de la naturaleza.

  El océano contiene el 97% del agua de la Tierra; en la atmósfera está el 0,001%. Los procesos que intercambian y transforman el agua en vapor, en líquido o en sólido sonfundamentales para el clima y para la propia vida. El agua es una de las sustancias más comunes, pero tiene algunas propiedades físicas y químicas inusuales. Es uno de los pocos líquidos naturales y puede encontrarse enlas tres fases: vapor de agua, agua líquida y hielo sólido. Tiene un calor específico y un calor latente grandes...

• Snake (reptile).

  in their heads that conduct sound. They are able to hear low-frequency sounds and to sense vibrations that travel through the ground or water. The majority of snakeshave good eyesight, especially for detecting moving objects, although most burrowing snakes can only distinguish between light and dark. Pit vipers, boas, and pythons have an unusual adaptation for detecting warm-blooded prey and predators. On the heads of these snakes are small pits lined with cellsthat are extremely sensitive to he...

• Coral Reef.

  sensitive to particles of mud or sediment settling on them, which means that corals rarely grow close to rivers or other sources of sediment. In the sea, light is filteredout by depth, so reef-building corals can only grow in relatively shallow water. Even in the clearest oceans few reef-building corals grow below a depth of 80 to 100 m(260 to 328 ft). Although corals need nutrients, they cannot thrive in areas where there are large amounts of nutrients. Typically, microscopic organisms in the p...

• Toys. I INTRODUCTION Toys, objects that serve as playthings for children. Although the

  clay. These readily available elements were also used to make more elaborate toys as human society advanced. Archaeologists have found primitive, handmade toys such as wooden or cloth dolls, clay marbles, and terracotta figures that date back thousands of years. In ancientEgypt, Greece, and Rome, people placed dolls or clay figures in the graves or tombs of children for them to play with in the afterlife. The yo-yo may seem like a 20th-century fad, but it actually dates back at least 2,500 years...

• Georgia (country) - country.

  1917. During the subsequent Soviet period, religious practice was strongly discouraged because the Soviet state was officially atheistic; however, the GeorgianOrthodox Church was allowed to function openly. Orthodox Christianity is the religion of about 58 percent of the Georgian population. Muslims represent about 19 percent of the country’s population, with ethnicAzerbaijanis, Kurds, and Ajars comprising the principal Muslim groups. Ajars are ethnic Georgians who converted to Islam in the 17th...

• Gravitation I INTRODUCTION Gravitation, the force of attraction between all objects that tends to pull them toward one another.

  precise observations possible, and Galileo was one of the first to use a telescope to study astronomy. In 1609 Galileo observed that moons orbited the planet Jupiter, afact that could not reasonably fit into an earth-centered model of the heavens. The new heliocentric theory changed scientists' views about the earth's place in the universe and opened the way for new ideas about the forces behind planetarymotion. However, it was not until the late 17th century that Isaac Newton developed a theory...

• Gravitation - astronomy.

  precise observations possible, and Galileo was one of the first to use a telescope to study astronomy. In 1609 Galileo observed that moons orbited the planet Jupiter, afact that could not reasonably fit into an earth-centered model of the heavens. The new heliocentric theory changed scientists' views about the earth's place in the universe and opened the way for new ideas about the forces behind planetarymotion. However, it was not until the late 17th century that Isaac Newton developed a theory...

• Inca Empire.

  The Incas’ public works were built through a labor tax known as mit’a. This tax required most people incorporated into the Inca Empire to provide labor for public worksduring certain portions of each year. This labor tax supported large-scale public works that required the marshalling of large labor forces, such as for the building offorts, roads, and bridges, or the mining of metals and gems. It also allowed the emperor to raise large armies to undertake wars of conquest. Road building was impo...

• Inca Empire - History.

  The Incas’ public works were built through a labor tax known as mit’a. This tax required most people incorporated into the Inca Empire to provide labor for public worksduring certain portions of each year. This labor tax supported large-scale public works that required the marshalling of large labor forces, such as for the building offorts, roads, and bridges, or the mining of metals and gems. It also allowed the emperor to raise large armies to undertake wars of conquest. Road building was impo...

• Animal Behavior - biology.

  The first motor program analyzed in much detail was the egg-rolling response of geese. When a goose sees an egg outside its nest, it stares at the egg, stretches itsneck until its bill is just on the other side of the egg, and then gently rolls the egg back into the nest. At first glance this seems a thoughtful and intelligent piece ofbehavior, but it is a mechanical motor program; almost any smooth, rounded object (the sign stimulus) will release the response. Furthermore, removal of the egg on...

• Human Nutrition.

  is one of the most preventable types of cancer. Nutritionists caution that most Americans need to eat more complex carbohydrates. In the typical American diet, only 40 to 50 percent of total calories come fromcarbohydrates—a lower percentage than found in most of the world. To make matters worse, half of the carbohydrate calories consumed by the typical American comefrom processed foods filled with simple sugars. Experts recommend that these foods make up no more that 10 percent of our diet, bec...

• Czech Republic - country.

  enforcement of environmental regulations. Environmental considerations have also led some government officials to promote nuclear energy as a key source of powerfor the country’s future. The Czech Republic produces most of its energy by burning domestic coal. Much of the coal burned is low quality with a high ash and sulfur content—a key componentof acid rain—producing high levels of air pollution. Forests in the Czech Republic are among the most seriously affected by acid rain in all of Europe....

• Haiti - country.

  Haitian Creole and French are the official languages of Haiti. Haitian Creole, a French-based Creole with influences from West African languages, was made an officiallanguage under the 1987 constitution. It is the mother tongue for nearly the entire population of Haiti and the language of instruction in schools. French is spokenmainly as a second language by a small section of the population. B Religion About 80 percent of Haiti’s people are nominal Roman Catholics, many of them combining an Af...

• Western Music I INTRODUCTION Bizet's Carmen Georges Bizet's Carmen, first performed in Paris in 1875, was a milestone in the history of French opera.

  church ceremonies during the period from the 5th to the 7th century. Roman chant became known as Gregorian chant after Pope Gregory I, the Great, who may havecomposed some of the melodies and who actively encouraged an orderly, ritualized use of music by the church. Because Gregory and later popes preferred Gregorianchant to the varieties that had developed elsewhere in Europe, Gregorian chant eventually superseded most of the others. Gregorian and other chant styles arepreserved in many manuscr...

• Stone Age.

  limestone, quartzite, and indurated shale. Ground stone tools could be made on a wider range of raw material types, including coarser grained rock such as granite. Flaking produces several different types of stone artifacts, which archaeologists look for at prehistoric sites. The parent pieces of rock from which chips have beendetached are called cores, and the chips that have been removed from cores are called flakes. A flake that has had yet smaller flakes removed from one or more edgesin orde...

• South America - Geography.

  South America is dominated by relatively warm climatic regimes. Spanning nearly the entire continent along the equator is a belt of humid tropical climate that grades tothe north and south into broad zones where the length of the rainy season and the amount of rainfall diminish. These zones have wet summers and dry winters and aresubject to prolonged droughts. Droughts are a particularly serious problem in northeastern Brazil and along the northern coast of Venezuela and Colombia. The areas ofra...