As the temperature rises during summer, the extreme heat allows the metal to expand at the base, increasing the height. It has also been noted that the topmost of the tower tilts away from the sun due to the steel expantion in the warmer weather. On Average the height of the Eiffel Tower is 324 meters, however during summer, its height increases as much as 15 centimeters and shricks during cooler weather.
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Nomophobia is a phobia in which describes the fear of being without a mobile device, or beyond mobile phone contact (Elmore,2014). Researchers at Iowa State University designed and validated a 20-question measure called the Nomophobia Questionnaire (or NMP-Q) in which, “Participants in a separate study then responded to these items on 1-7 scales ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree. The researchers calculated NMP-Q scores by simply summing up responses to each item and then categorizing the total score as either “mild nomophobia” (scores of 21-59), “moderate nomophobia” (scores of 66-99), or “severe nomophobia” (scores ≥ 100). Analysis of these data also led researchers to identify four components of nomophobia: (1) not being able to communicate with people, (2) losing connectedness in general, (3) not being able to access information, and (4) giving up on convenience. These represented reliably distinct concerns that all contributed to participants’ general distress over not having their mobile devices."(scientificamerican.com)
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