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- 151: Sickle Cell Disease
- ... through to bring oxygen to them. Without oxygen, the area starts to hurt and this is the source of the pain from this disease. This blockage of blood vessels is known as sickle cell pain "crisis". Pain crises may be very severe and need to be treated in the hospital, or they may be milder and can be treated at home. If the blockage is long-lasting, it can destroy areas of tissue. There is as yet no effective treatment to prevent or reverse the sickling that causes the crisis. Some important facts about sickle cell disease are: 1. This disease is inherited and is not contagious. To inherit the disease, a child must receive two sickle cell genes -- one from each parent who "carries ... occur among blacks, and Hispanics of Caribbean ancestry. About one in every 400 to 600 blacks inherit sickle cell disease. The disease also affects some people of Arabian, Greek, Maltese, Italian, Sardinian, Turkish, and southern Asian ancestry. 3. Sickle cell "trait" is not the same as sickle cell disease. Carriers of a single cell gene are said to have sickle cell trait. One in 10 blacks in this country has ...
- 152: Endangered Species 2
- ... a reduction in the availability of prey.20 In recent years, the illegal hunting of tigers for body parts utilized in traditional Oriental medicines has become a major problem.17 The prosperity of the Southeast Asian and East Asian economies since the 1970s has led to an ever-increasing demand for these medicines. In India, the Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI) reported poaching figures indicating about 93 tigers killed in 1994, 115 in 1995, and 40 in 1996. But the Society warns that these figures represent only a fraction of actual poaching activities.15 In Russia the economic crisis combined with a relaxation of border controls and a ready access to the wildlife markets of China, Korea and Japan, led to a dramatic increase in the level of poaching.15,17 In the ...
- 153: Looking Ahead: The Future Of Post Keynesian Economics
- ... the end of the Bretton Woods agreement we saw the introduction of flexible exchange rates and efforts to deregulate international capital markets. The consequence of these policies became evident in the 1980s with the debt crisis that plagued Mexico and other Latin American countries and in the 1990s with the Asian crisis where we saw significant currency devaluations and international capital flows guided by fears of exchange and interest rate speculation and not by long term real investment. As long as the current international trade policies ...
- 154: Chinese Economic Reform
- ... development of China's oil reserves. When estimates of the oil reserves were reported to be dropping, commitments to import plants and expand heavy industry could not be sustained. Deng took advantage of this economic crisis to discredit Hua and aim for leadership of the party. Reform policies became Deng's platform against Hua. (Shirk 35-36) Once Deng and his faction had prevailed, it was necessary for some sort of ... to create a new program called the "coastal development strategy." In this program, even more of the country was opened up to foreign investment. It was modeled on the experiences of Taiwan and the other Asian countries. (Nathan 55-99) One analyst maintained that "China stands at the threshold of the greatest opportunity in human history: a new economic era promising greater wealth and achievement than any previous epoch" (Gilder 369 ... 14. Gilder, George. "Let a Billion Flowers Bloom." Economic Reform in China: Problems and Prospects. Ed. James A. Dorn and Wang Xi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. 369-374. Nathan, Andrew J. China's Crisis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. "Official on Economic Reform." Beijing Review: 27 June-3 July 1994, 11-15. Shenon, Philip. "China Halts Listing of New Stock." New York Times: 1 August 1994, D1, ...
- 155: India 2
- INDIA India, officially republic of India is a country in Southern Asia, which consists entirely of the Indian Peninsula and parts of the Asian mainland. On the north, one can find Afghanistan, China, Nepal, and Bhutan; on the east, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and the Bay of Bengal; on the south, by Palk Strait, and the Gulf of Manhar, and the ... redevelop within the next few years. Nearly 40 percent of the Indian population remains too poor to afford an adequate diet. India's exports, currency, and foreign institutional investment were affected by the East Asia crisis in late 1997 and early 1998. Export growth has been decreasing in 1996-97, averaging only about 4 percent to 5 percent, which is a large crop from 20 percent increases it was having over the prior three years- mostly because of the fall in Asian currencies relative to the rupee. Energy, telecommunications, transportation shortages, and the estate of inefficient factories compel industrial growth which expanded only 6.7 percent. In 1997- down from more than 11 percent in 1996. ...
- 156: A Case Study In Diversity India And Romania
- ... sites from virtually any point in the world. To some extent, this is the case -- but it can be very difficult. As a large part of our assignment was the comparison of the SAWNET (South Asian Women's NETwork) website, with another site which we found to be equally diverse, I chose to focus on the Indian aspect of SAWNET, as it seemed to be the most represented of all the South Asian countries. For comparison, I chose Romania, a country that I knew nothing about, as it is represented in Virtual Romania (http://www.info.polymtl.ca/zuse/ tavi/www/rom_eng.html). Each of the websites ... very serious site, in contrast to the fun and info-packed Virtual Romania. I realize that there are serious political and social upheavals underway in India at this time, as is illustrated by the current crisis with Pakistan and in the few articles I read at the SAWNET site: Breaking the shackles (http://www.indiaserver. com/thehindu/1999/04/04/stories/13040611.htm), and Women, Sex and Marriage: Restraint as ...
- 157: The Role of Entertainers as Educators
- ... place to tell the stories of the day, both fictional and topical. The African oral tradition was rich in folk tales, myths, riddles, and proverbs, serving a religious, social, and economic function (Lindfors 1). Likewise, Asian actors covered their faces with masks in order to act out a scandal of the day without the audience knowing who was passing along the gossip (Archer 76). European puppets were another medium which permitted ... for posterity and future use. Greek plays were also recorded on paper beginning around 500 B.C., reflecting issues of the day and entertaining audiences concurrently. The tragedies of Euripides reflect political, social, and intellectual crisis. Plays such as The Bacchae reflect the dissolution of common values of the time, while other works criticized traditional religion or represented mythical figures as unheroic (Segal 1). Each Greek drama was similarly structured: problems ... to generation through oral history, the insightful thoughts of these entertainers continue to educate the public in the twenty-first century. Works Cited Alvaro, Richard. ³Leon Battisa Alberti.² Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. 1996 ed. Archer, Katherine. ³Asian Literature.² Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. 1996 ed. Beye, Allan. ³The Iliad.² Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. 1996 ed. Bogin, Meg. The Women Troubadours. New York: Paddington Press, 1976. Burdick, Jacques. Theater. New York: Newsweek Books, 1974. Edwards, ...
- 158: Exporting Purell Hand Sanitize
- ... steady rise in GN Savings and Investment as a percentage of GDP. This unfortunately has not translated in to the public sector, which results in low capital formation. India has remained largely unscathed by the Asian financial crisis. WEAKNESES India s main source of constraint to economic growth is the weak transport and communications infrastructure. Also, following the 1991 general election, Congress formed a minority government under P V Narasimh Rao. A program of economic reforms was initiated in the same year, after a financial crisis forced recourse to the IMF for financing. IV MARKETING DECISIONS Distribution will be difficult in India, as the existing transportation infrastructure is weak. Lack of finance has prompted the government to allow foreign investment ...
- 159: The Lexus And The Olive Trees
- ... businesses couldn t pay the finance houses back, many finance houses couldn t repay their foreign leaders and the whole system went into gridlock putting 20,000 white-collar employees out of work. The Thai crisis triggered a general flight of capital out of practically all the Southeast Asian emerging markets, driving down the value of currencies in South Korea, Malaysia and Indonesia. Southeast Asian slowdown began to have an important effect on commodity prices around the world, including Russia. Too many of Russia s factories couldn t make anything of value. Without much of a growing economy, the ...
- 160: The Role of Entertainers as Educators
- ... a place to tell the stories of the day, both fictional and topical. The African oral tradition was rich in folk tales, myths, riddles, and proverbs, serving a religious, social, and economic function (Lindfors '). Likewise, Asian actors covered their faces with masks in order to act out a scandal of the day without the audience knowing who was passing along the gossip (Archer 76). European puppets were another medium which permitted ... for posterity and future use. Greek plays were also recorded on paper beginning around 500 B.C., reflecting issues of the day and entertaining audiences concurrently. The tragedies of Euripides reflect political, social, and intellectual crisis. Plays such as The Bacchae reflect the dissolution of common values of the time, while other works criticized traditional religion or represented mythical figures as unheroic (Segal '). Each Greek drama was similarly structured: problems were ... to generation through oral history, the insightful thoughts of these entertainers continue to educate the public in the twenty-first century. Works Cited Alvaro, Richard. "Leon Battisa Alberti." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. '996 ed. Archer, Katherine. "Asian Literature." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. '996 ed. Beye, Allan. "The Iliad." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. '996 ed. Bogin, Meg. The Women Troubadours. New York: Paddington Press, '976. Burdick, Jacques. Theater. New York: Newsweek Books, '974. Edwards, ...
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