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Breast Cancer American Cancer
931 wordsBreast cancer is the second leading cause of death in most in women today (NABCO: Facts About Breast Cancer 1). It is a known fact that its cure and origin are unknown. Breast cancer is when an uncontrolled growth of cells without a specific function form in the breast area of a person, killing normal cells and tissue. This process in turn causes a lump or mass to form known as cancer. Although breast cancer cannot be prevented, there are some steps a person can take to reduce the risks. These s...
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Marie Curie Nobel Prizes
1,161 wordsWhy was Marie Curie a significant woman in European Science? Marie Curie was the most successful scientist to come out of Poland. She saw science as a beauty that she wanted to withhold. # Science to her was an unknown fairy tale phenomena that she was determined to discover. Marie Curie wanted to use science to help others, and the world. She accomplished this by working in World War I, and discovering radium, and polonium. Marie Curies discovery of polonium was a great scientific finding. This...
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Academy Of Sciences Marie Curie
1,472 words... off immense radiation. Radium is extremely powerful and, unless used with care and in a controlled environment, very dangerous. Unfortunately, this was not known in the days of the Curies. While working with radioactive materials, both Pierre and Marie suffered from many illnesses and pains. They encountered aching arms and legs, sores, colds and blisters that never seemed to go away. They often pinned these problems to their lack of rest due to being in the laboratory. Only later did the tw...
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Double Helix X Ray
784 wordsBorn on July 25, 1920 in London, England, Rosalind Elise Franklin was a catalyst to many other scientists in the field of genetics. Using coal and carbon as subjects, Franklin discovered the double helix of DNA, the shape that two linear strands of DNA assume when bonded together. In 1945, Franklin received her Ph. D in physical chemistry from Cambridge University. The next year she went to Paris and worked in the Laboratoire Central des Services Chimiques de Left until 1950 where she concentrat...
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Radio Telescopes Radio Waves
1,285 words... copes Orbiting telescopes are used to observe the ultraviolet (UV), far infrared, and X-ray portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The Infrared Astronomical Satellite, placed in orbit in 1983, carried a 22. 5 -inch infrared telescope. Because all matter emits infrared radiation if warm, technologists had to cool the telescope to near absolute zero with liquid helium so its internal heat radiation would not mask radiation it was collecting from deep space objects. Among its many discoverie...
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Point In Time Valley Of The Kings
1,877 wordsMedia sensationalism and media hypes are things that are painfully obvious in all of our lives. Every person of this generation can remember the hype of Y 2 K, the insanity of the 2000 Presidential Election, the exaggerated numbers associated with Hurricane Katrina, the panic of SARS and the currently claimed explosion of the avian flu across the world. Our parents remember that the only real way to protect oneself from an atomic blast is to duck and cover. The insanity even travels to foreign c...
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Science Dna Testing And Modern Crime Solving
1,545 wordsAfter a long day at work, you decide to crash on the couch and watch a little television. After flipping through the channels, you notice the impressive line-up of police, courtroom, and medical dramas. Finally, you settle upon an episode of Law and Order. Tonights episode is about a young girl who was raped and murdered. In the end, extensive D. N. A. testing reveals the true killer, and the case is solved. Like many other prime time television series, the characters in Law and Order always man...
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World Trade Centre Background Checks
1,668 wordsTrends of the Security Profession The global situation of the past years with growing threat of terrorism and hostage holding is leading the leaders of the developed countries to the review of the security techniques and principles. The security profession is shifting from manual and human based approach to more technological and computer implementing one. The latest trend of the security development is introduction of computer-driven video surveillance and controlling, where the profession of t...
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Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign
658 wordsBreast Cancer Awareness Campaign Introduction One of the most common cancer in women today is breast cancer and is considered as a menopausal disease in women. However, young women also who are afflicted by this disease besides the fact that breast cancer can also be hereditary. Through the process of mammography breast cancer can be detected in two ways, which are by a screen test and by the examination of a breast lump. Both of these mammography tests are x-ray based and at present the most wi...
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X Ray Nobel Prize
1,955 wordsBest Candidate Introduction There has been a trend within recent years to foster the use of digital technologies in our life. Medicine is no exception to the rule, as it continues to use new generation of equipment, which uses the state-of-the-art digital technologies aimed to facilitate obtaining and processing data. This trend develops dynamically, and digital x-ray diagnostics becomes the most technologically advanced direction in the medicine. The paper explores the history of x-ray, the his...
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X Ray Soft Tissues
1,963 words... the systems at the development and design stages) fall under classification as follows: The systems that digitize X-ray image retrieved with the help of X-ray image amplifier (for example, the mass-screening units based on image intensifier); CR - Digital X-ray imaging implying luminophors and fluorescent (for example, computed radiography digitizers). This type of radiography systems utilizes phosphor plates. Semiconductor detectors; Digital X-ray imaging on the basis of multi conduct propo...
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Rosalind Franklin The Woman Scientist Of Dna
1,262 wordsROSALIND FRANKLIN: The Woman Scientist of DNA (a) Include a brief biographical sketch of the individual. Rosalind Franklin, a woman of great scientific creativity, the so-called Woman Scientist of DNA was born on July 25, 1920. Her parents Muriel Way Franklin and merchant banker Ellis Franklin, belonged to well-respected Jewish families. Her family often conversed about a lot of things and there were family discussions and debates that honed Franklins logical mind such that Rosalind learned to a...
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Cat Scanning The Best In Early Diagnostics
2,074 wordsCAT Scanning. The Best in Early Diagnostics? The modern medicine has gone through many stages during its evolution. If we are to ask any doctor what is the most important thing during medication, most of the times we will get a single answer: the timely and correct diagnosis. The history of diagnosis begins with the simplest visual check and cardiogram, and nowadays continues with sophisticated ultra-sound examinations and CAT Scanning. Currently CAT Scan is the most advanced method of diagnosti...
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Health Care Professionals Skin Test
1,431 wordsTuberculosis (TB) is Tuberculosis Tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by a germ (bacterium) called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This germ primarily affects the lungs and may infect anyone at any age. In the United States, the number of TB cases steadily decreased until 1986 when an increase was noted; TB has continued to rise since. Today, ten million individuals are infected in the U. S. , as evidenced by positive skin tests, with approximately 26, 000 new cases of act...
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Nucleic Acids Double Helix
1,905 wordsDouble Helix A review of Watson, James D. The Double Helix. New York: Atheneum, 1968. James Watsons account of the events that led to the discovery of the structure of deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) is a very witty narrative, and shines light on the nature of scientists. Watson describes the many key events that led to the eventual discovery of the structure of DNA in a scientific manner, while including many experiences in his life that happened at the same time which really have no great signi...
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Dna Molecules Nitrogenous Bases
1,277 wordsFrancis Crick. A name were all familiar with for his work with DNA. In keeping with the spirit of the architectonic, Crick has branched out beyond his original field of study. Crick has done some amazing work in other fields since his famous work with Watson in the 50 s. Most recently, Crick has begun to address the current hot topic in science: consciousness. Though Crick may or may not make earth-shattering observations in his book, The Astonishing Hypothesis, he at least makes a concise, coge...
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World War Ii Marie And Pierre
2,635 wordsIrene Irene Joliot-Curie IRENE JOLIOT-CURIE Irene Curie was a brilliant dedicated scientist who accomplished many things throughout her life but was overshadowed by those around her throughout her life. She was overshadowed by Nobel laureate parents Maire and Pierre Curie, by co-laureate and husband Jean Frederick Joliot, by her physicist daughter Helene, who was married to Paul Langevin's grandson, and by biochemist son Pierre Joliot. She was also overshadowed by her non-scientist sister Eve De...
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Marie Curie Nobel Prizes
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Bodys Immune System Health Care Professionals
1,883 wordsInflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of chronic disorders that cause inflammation or ulceration in the small and large intestines. Most often IBD is classified as ulcerative colitis or Crohns disease but may be referred to as colitis, enteritis, ileitis, and proc titis. Ulcerative colitis causes ulceration and inflammation of the inner lining of a couple of really bad places, while Crohns disease is an inflammation that extends into the deeper layers of the intestinal wall. Ulcerative col...
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M P H Black Hole
3,742 wordsBlack holes are objects so dense that not even light can escape their gravity, and since nothing can travel faster than light, nothing can escape from inside a black hole. Loosely speaking, a black hole is a region of space that has so much mass concentrated in it that there is no way for a nearby object to escape its gravitational pull. Since our best theory of gravity at the moment is Einsteins general theory of relativity, we have to delve into some results of this theory to understand black ...
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