The Muslim scholar Abu Ali al-Hussain Ibn Abdullah Ibn Sina (Avicenna) recorded which of the following criticisms that the Christian philosopher John Philoponus had made against Aristotle? that the velocity of a falling object is not faster for heavier objects, but is independent of its weight that the chambers of the human heart, and its major blood vessels, are separated by four valves that the human stomach is not merely breaking food down mechanically, but is “concocting” food that the human heart contains four chambers, not merely three chambers (like the amphibians) that the loss of a large volume of blood in humans does not cause a strong pulse, but a weak pulse

A recent newspaper article described a new bottled water that is “super charged” with oxygen.  Since the body’s demand for oxygen increases as physical exertion increases, a university athletic coach thought that giving her athletes this oxygenated water would result in better performances.  To test this idea, the coach divided her runners up into two groups.  During practice, one group was given the super charged, oxygenated water to drink.  The other group was given regular water.  Both groups completed the same workout and drank the same amount of water (either oxygenated or unoxygenated).  At the end of practice, she had all the athletes run 400 meters as fast as they could.  She compared the times of the runners who had consumed regular water to those who had consumed the oxygenated water during practice.  The coach found that the average time of the oxygenated water drinkers was significantly faster than that of the runners who had consumed regular water during practice. Which of…

Explain how our muscular and skeletal systems function in a flight and fight situation , include the specific organs, cells, tissues, molecules and process involved

Eratosthenes of Cyrene, the first mathematician to provide a fairly accurate estimate of the Earth’s circumference (about 24,500 miles), was from which of the following schools of higher learning? Aristotle’s Lyceum the Alexandrian School Plato’s Academy the Peripatetic School the Didascalium