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Ground Water Land Surface
989 words... e of people to the overlying land. The water is used for such activities as drinking, personal hygiene, residential maintenance, and industrial and agricultural purposes. Many of these activities involve the use and disposal of chemicals, which are potential pollutants. When these chemicals are used or disposed of incorrectly unacceptable amounts can get into the ground water and contaminate it. Several valuable aquifers have been polluted by the people living and working above them. Most hu...
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Viral Infection Host Cell
851 wordsIt all started with a little tickling in my throat. I forged ahead, knowing all too well what that feeling meant, I was getting sick. I convinced myself to just not think about it and it would just go away. This whole time there was an army of alien species amassing in my bloodstream and older cells. They are horrifyingly ugly, like something straight out of H. R. Geiger's imagination. They writhe and twitch while they are on the hunt for one of your precious body cells. One can almost imagine t...
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Needles And Syringes Scar Tissue
1,117 words... deathly and apply pressure on the area for a few minutes. An ice pack or crushed ice in a tea towel will also help reduce any bleeding or pain). To inject into the thigh, divide the thigh from the knee to the hip in thirds by drawing three imaginary horizontal lines across it. Inject into the outer part of the middle section. The thigh has more exposed nerves and veins than the backside. Place a cotton ball over the injection site if the oil based steroid dribbles out a little bit - this sug...
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Glenn Dudley Alice Austin Book
798 wordsThe book I read The Cobra Event is a very detailed and really gruesome book. The book starts off in the late 1990 s in New York. A girl by the name of Kate Moran, who is well later to be known as the first victim from a mysterious virus, lived her life as a usual laid back teenager. Well one day at school, out of no where, Richard Preston, which is the author, goes into great detail of Kates spontaneous reaction toward the virus that she had gotten that no one had known at the time. She has a te...
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Barr Virus Incubation Period
503 wordsCause Infectious mononucleosis is caused by the Ebstein-Barr virus, which is a member of the herpes family. This family also includes the viruses that cause cold sores, chicken pox, genital herpes, and birth defects. The Ebstein-Barr virus has a lengthy incubation period and symptoms usually take about 4 - 10 weeks to develop. Once a person is infected with a herpes virus, it never really goes away. The viruses are able to lie dormant in our bodies and become active at any time. The only way mon...
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Ebola Virus Fatality Rate
903 wordsI chose to do my report of the Ebola Virus because it is a very deadly, and its a virus that isnt publicized much in newspapers and televisions. So I think its a good choice. The Ebola virus is one of the worlds most deadly viruses, in all of its many forms. The purpose of this essay is to explain the history, signs and symptoms of the Ebola virus. Between the years 425 BC & 430 BC Athens population was dramatically reduced when about 300, 000 of its inhabitants died from some sickness. People n...
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White Blood Cells Chronic Hepatitis
1,189 words... twelve weeks of contact with the virus (Hoofnagle). The most common symptoms are those of flu (McCarthy, Rose). They are fatigue, nausea, poor appetite, fever, chills, headaches, sore throat, and joint pain (Turkington 34). These symptoms last only for about a week so many people ignore them and go back to their normal lives. If not treated at first symptoms, the patient will develop chronic hepatitis. Chronic hepatitis is where the disease becomes persistent (Hoofnagle). Chronic hepatitis c...
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Computer Security Phone System
1,127 words... up ports. There are two advantages of attacking systems through the phone system. The first advantage is that, phone system attack are hard to trace. It is possible to make connections through multiple switching units or to use unlisted or unused phone numbers to confound a tracing effort. Also by being in the phone system, it is sometimes possible to monitor the phone company to see if a trace is initiated. The second advantage to using the phone system is that a sophisticated host machine ...
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President Bill Clinton Hot Zone
1,084 words... and orphanages Richard Preston Where he was born and what some of his life was like. Preston was born in Cambridge, MA he got his Interest in reading when he was in the forth grade and shortly he became addicted to books and just like my grandpa be came a paper addict, where any paper with readable writing the person picks up and reads and if its take able the person then takes and keeps and cant put in the trash / recycle for fear it might die like shooting a animal. He also would get into ...
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Vaccinate Your Child Strain Polio Children
978 wordsChoose Better Health Parents today are to quick to run to the doctor looking for some kind of drug to give their kid every time they are ill. When you have a newborn child you are told that the child must be vaccinated to live a normal healthy childhood, but this statement is not true because there are natural ways to treat colds and other flu s by letting your body do the work. Your body is a self-regulating, self-healing organism if you re nervous system is allowed to function drug free. Today...
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Person To Person Acute Stress
682 wordsWhat Common Cold Common Cold What is the common cold? A common cold is a contagious viral infection of the upper respiratory tract. The symptom of a common cold are stuffy nose, congestion, runny nose, fever, headache, cough, sore throat or fatigue in the body. A common cold could have one or a few of these symptoms. What are the causes of the common cold? Colds are caused by one of hundreds of common viruses that can easily be transmitted from person to person. In this essay we are going to emp...
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Type 1 Diabetes Type 2 Diabetes
1,356 wordsNearly 16 million people in the United States nearly one out of every 17 people have diabetes. And about 1, 800 new cases are diagnosed each day. Technically, this disease is known as diabetes mellitus, diabetes from the Greek for excessive urination, a symptom the ancients noticed, and mellitus, from the Latin for honey diabetic urine is filled with sugar and is sweet. There are three types of diabetes: type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes. All of them are a little different. But everyone w...
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Blood Glucose Levels Blood Sugar Levels
1,099 wordsNearly 16 million people in the United States have diabetes, the disease classified as a problem with insulin. The problem could be that your body does not make insulin, does not make enough, or it simply does not know how to use it properly. Diabetes is also known as diabetes mellitus. There are many types of diabetes. The two I will be discussing are type 1 and type 2. Type 1 generally affects young people and requires treatment with insulin. Five to ten percent of Americans with diabetes have...
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Ideas Small Scale
1,777 wordsDNA Computing, The Future or the End? The future of computers is in the hands of the next century. The evolution of the Computer Age has become a part of everyday life, and as time proceeds, people are depending more and more on computer technology. From controlling a small wrist watch to the largest super-computers that can calculated the center of the universe, computers are essential for everyone in modern societies. Even most societies outside of the civilized world are not immune to compute...
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Health Care Services Gay And Lesbian Community
716 wordsProtease inhibitors. For more than a decade, researches and physicians tried to develop new treatment to fight HIV. They came up with some drugs; however, these drugs have proved to be usefulness. They did not cured HIV, but slowed it down. Today, a new class of drugs is providing a New Hope against fighting HIV: protease inhibitors. Protease inhibitors are antiviral drugs. They interrupt the way HIV uses a healthy cell to make more viruses. When HIV enters a normal healthy cell, its concerned w...
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Jonas Salk Polio Vaccine
731 wordsDr. Jonas Edward Salk was born on October 28, 1914 in New York City. He laid the structure for our understanding of advanced study of disease and medicine. Jonas Salk was the oldest son in his family. His parents, even though they didnt have any primary education, were determined to make their children succeed in the society. They encouraged their children to study hard and helped them when they fell. Jonas Salk was the first member of his family to go to college. He earned money from working af...
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Cystic Fibrosis Recombinant Dna
1,125 wordsCancer is diagnosed in almost 1. 5 million people in the United States annually. Approximately one-half million Americans die of cancer annually, making it the second leading cause of death in the U. S. Cystic fibrosis is an inherited, fatal disease occurring once in every 2, 500 Caucasian births and once in every 17, 000 African American births. Genetic research has failed, so far, to solve many genetic-based cancers, but it has identified the gene and its location (on chromosome 7) responsible...
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Funk 038 Wagnalls Cancer Cells
1,572 wordsMitosis in cancerous cells Mitosis, the process in which a cell undergoes nuclear division, is one of the four subdivisions of the cell cycle responsible for cell growth and reproduction. The first step in mitosis is prophase. In prophase the chromatin, diffuse in interphase, condenses into chromosomes. Each chromosome duplicates and has become two sister chromatids. At the end of prophase, the nuclear envelope breaks down into vesicles. The following step in mitosis is metaphase. During metapha...
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People Around The World Aids Epidemic
551 wordsAbstract: A new process in bio-chemistry involves the manipulation of molecules to defeat diseases, viruses, chemical warfare, and to reduce the cost of bio-chemical engineering. This new process is refined in that the researcher utilizes new computer technology to model the behavior of certain molecules to insert a slot for discarding unwanted foreign objects. These unwanted foreign objects are discarded by fixing the slot to fit the objects. This slot can be customized, through manipulation an...
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Central Nervous System Nerve Cells
433 wordsPoliomyelitis, infectious virus disease of the central nervous system, sometimes resulting in paralysis. The greatest incidence of the disease, also known as infantile paralysis, is in children between the ages of five and ten years. The disease was described in 1840 by the German orthopedist Jacob von Heine. In its clinical form it is more prevalent in temperate zones. Symptoms The virus usually enters the body through the alimentary tract and spreads along nerve cells to affect various parts o...
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