Cystic Fibrosis Of The Pancreas
.... In families where both parents ae carriers,
approximately 25% of all the offspring will have the diswase, although the
incidence may vary from one family to the next. The disease is relatively
common to Caucasions, usually among Negroes, and very rare in Mongolians.
In the United States, about 1 in every 2000 children is born with the
disease, and 5% of the population are carriers. In the days before
antibiotics, patients succumbed to bronchopheumonia or malnutrition, and
the underlying cause was .....
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Home Health Care Nursing
.... hope to familiarize individuals with home health
care nursing.
First, I will explain the increasing need for home health care
nursing. Next, I will talk about DRG’s and how this type of insurance
guideline determines what type of care a patient will receive. Then I will
proceed to explain about what type of experience and qualifications needed
for home health care nursing. Next, I will talk about how home health
nursing is an independent career and explain safety issues and rules for
playing it safe whi .....
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Borderline Personality Disorder
.... because some of the symptoms of Borderline patients are like the
characteristics of adolescence. Examples of these would be uncertainty of
life and career choices, sexual promiscuity, and substance abuse. However,
those with Borderline Personality Disorder(B.P.D.) must also have these
symptoms:
1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal
relationships characterized by alternating between
extremes of idealization and deva .....
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Gonorrhea
.... and people
with a lower socioeconomic status. From a standpoint of age, gonorrhea is
most common in people 15-29 years of age. Risk factors include having
multiple sexual partners, a partner with a past history of any STD, and
unprotected sex (sex without the condom or the newly developed female
condom).
The early symptoms of gonorrhea are often mild, and many women who
are infected have no symptoms of the disease. Symptoms of gonorrhea
usually appear within two to ten days after sexual contact w .....
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Teenage Suicide
.... kill thierselves they realize that they actually dont want to die. They
really do want to live. On the average, a teenager takes his or her own
life every one and a half hours, making about one hundred and thirty
deaths a week, making suicide the second leading cause of death among
teenagers.
Three major aspects of teenage suicide are (1) what causes teens to
make this choice to take their own lives. (2) How you may be able to detect
if someone you know might be going to commit suicide and (3) an .....
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Abortion And Politics
.... will and better judgement in an attempt to cope with the new economical and social realities of her life. Of course, frequently, the man who is responsible for the pregnancy refuses to marry her, and responsibility to provide support. The woman may be forced to become a welfare recipient, become part of this cycle of poverty, and expose herself to the personal humiliation, loss of personal liberty, and inadequate income this entails.
The impact of pregnancy is not only restricted to economical and edu .....
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Abortion
.... will and better judgement in an attempt to cope with the new economical and social realities of her life. Of course, frequently, the man who is responsible for the pregnancy refuses to marry her, and responsibility to provide support. The woman may be forced to become a welfare recipient, become part of this cycle of poverty, and expose herself to the personal humiliation, loss of personal liberty, and inadequate income this entails.
The impact of pregnancy is not only restricted to economical and edu .....
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Attitudes Toward Abortion
.... of Collins (1981), Durkheim (1912/1954), and Goffman (1967), will be used to examine the effects of religiosity, feminism, and conservativism on attitudes toward abortion. I will show that there is not only a direct relationship, as many prior studies assert, but also that there is an interaction effect of the amount of interpersonal contact with others. That is, interaction with others intensifies the effect of other attitudes on attitudes toward abortion.
A THEORETICAL MODEL
Attitudinal Effects
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Psychoanalysis
.... better results by letting Anna O., a young woman patient, try to empty her mind by just telling him all of her thoughts and feelings.
Freud refined Breuer's method by conceptualizing theories about it and, using these theories, telling his patients through interpretations what was going on inside the unconscious part of their minds, thus making the unconscious become conscious. Many hysterias were cured this way, and in 1895, Breuer and Freud published their findings and theories in Studies in Hysteria.
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B Cells And T Cells
.... It can make up to 30,000 antibodies a second.
The second type of cell being made in period I is a memory cell. They also produce antibodies, however they live for long periods of time (up to a lifetime), compared to a plasma cell that lives only a few days. Memory cells are made so they can recognize this same antigen if it were to ever reenter the body again.
Interactions between T cells are also known as the cell-mediated response. T cells are not just active against viruses and bacteria, but the .....
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Types Of Muscle
.... it can be consciously controlled through the central nervous system. Smooth muscle is the muscle of the internal organs and is called involuntary because it is not under voluntary control. Cardiac muscle is a special type of muscle found only in the heart. It consists of linked fibers that contract in unison producing the heartbeat.
Skeletal, or Striated Muscle Tissue:
This type of muscle is composed of long fibers surrounded by a membranous sheath, the sarcolemma. The fibers are elongated, s .....
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A Link Between Anxiety And The Performance Of Athletes
.... the difference between state and trait anxiety. While state anxiety can be considered to be more situational in nature and is often associated with arousal of the autonomic nervous system. Trait anxiety can be thought of as a world view that in individual uses when coping with situations in his or her environment (Speilberger, 1996). Trait anxiety influences performances in that individuals with high trait anxiety will attend more information related to state anxiety (hardy et al., 1996). Now one of .....
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Klinefelter Syndrome
.... in 500 to 1,000 male births, many men who have the sex chromosome arrangement of XXY are not aware of it because they have very little or none of the typical symptoms that occur with the disease.
Klinefelter Syndrome can be diagnosed through a karyotype-a chromosome analysis usually done on a blood sample showing 47, XXY before birth, through amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling (4). Neither procedure is routinely used to check for XXY though. In later years, a semen exam showing low sperm count, .....
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The Safety Of Using Cell Phones
.... The distractions caused by talking on the phone are causing more accidents as the amount of cell phones being used increases. “The risk (of accidents) gets even greater if the person is discussing something important or especially is in the middle of an argument.” (Kolata, par. 2) The solution to cell phones in the cars is that cell phones should only be used in cases of emergencies.
The chance of brain tumors also increases with the usage of cell phones. Radiation emitted from cell phones i .....
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The Use Of Supplements Creatine, Androstenedione, And HMB
.... 1.6% a day. The body of a 70-kg individual would contain a total of about 120 grams of Creatine. Approximately 60% of the Creatine is stored in its phosphorylated form, phosphocreatine also known as Creatine phosphate(1).
Approximately 95% of the body’s Creatine supply are found in the skeletal muscles. The remaining 5% are scattered throughout the rest of the body, with the highest concentrations in the heart, brains, and testes. A skeletal muscle itself does not produce Creatine, but utilizes the Cre .....
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