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Magnetic Fields Todays Medical Field
421 wordsIn days of old, it was a common site to see individuals peddling serums or devices that were purported to cure all your afflictions. Most of these claims were, of course, fraudulent but held a fascinating and alluring idea. Despite todays medical milieu, and the many advances made in medical technology since those days of covered wagons and street side pharmacies, humans are still searching for some way to cure the afflictions of the human condition. What if someone made the claim, much like tho...
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British Medical Journal Cell Membrane
1,080 words... g to one or more of the classes listed here, including miscellaneous. To keep up with evolving bacteria, scientists are attacking efflux pumps. Efflux pumps are what microbes use to rid themselves of toxic materials and drugs. The way science is perusing this is to attach these pumps with compounds called efflux-pump inhibitors. These compounds have no infection fighting power but can make current antimicrobial drugs more effective (Christensen). Microbes that caused sickness in the pre anti...
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Pain And Suffering Animal Testing
603 wordsIts not a new thing. For many centuries scientists and testers in research have used animals of all kinds. Most of the animals are small ones like rodents - rats, mice, hamsters and gerbils. Some dogs, cats and a variety of goats, monkeys and rabbits have also been used. The animal rights issue is an emotional one - second only, perhaps, to the abortion debate. For decades the value of animal research has been grossly overrated. Although researchers claim that they depend on animal test data to ...
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Agent Orange Vietnam Veterans
699 wordsDiabetes Strongly Associated With Vietnam Exposure to Pesticide U. S. Air Force planes spray the defoliant chemical Agent Orange over dense vegetation in South Vietnam in this 1966 photo. Dioxin is the component of Agent Orange linked to many health effects in laboratory animals. (AP PhotoN, March 29 An Air Force study released today confirmed a connection, long suspected by Vietnam veterans, between wartime exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange and diabetes. The Air Force said the link so far ...
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Wal Mart Cigarette Ads
1,180 wordsAdvertisers main purpose is to make consumers aware of new products and services and to persuade them to buy. Granted advertising does differ from the news and entertainment media, but that doesnt mean it should not have to follow similar ethical standards. Advertising, too, should be held to the truth, as many people take it at face value and gullibly believe all or most of what is said. Although it is true that we should learn how to interpret advertising's, it is not our responsibility to int...
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Men And Women Scar Tissue
1,151 wordsMan kinds essential nature entails self-improvement and perfection. Because human beings have always sought out self-fulfillment through self-improvement, plastic surgery may be one of the worlds oldest hearing arts. According to the Plastic Surgery Information Service, there is written medical evidence that cites medical treatment for facial injuries for over 4000 years. Physicians n ancient India were utilizing skin grafts for reconstructive work as early as 800 BC. Furthermore, the driving fo...
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Sexual Assault Sexual Intercourse
1,154 words"When she says NO, it's rape... even when she's married to him"Every woman has the right to control her own body and to make decisions about having sex, using birth control, becoming pregnant and having children. She does not lose these rights if she marries. " These quotes were taken from Stopping Sexual Assault in Marriage published by the Center for Constitutional Rights Much of the attention that has been given to marital rape has emerged from the legal community. This has occurred because t...
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Animal Experimentation Animal Testing
574 wordsAre we to let concern for the rights of pests cost human lives? The answer is a simple one. Animal research, although often the subject of debate is a positive thing. Without it, where would the world be? Tests certainly cannot be done on humans, for what human will risk his or her life if there is a more convenient and sensible option. Yes the animals endure pain and, at times, lose their lives but new advances are being made in that field as well. Studies are always being done to ensure the ma...
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School Students School Days
508 wordswhen 57 % of violent crimes committed by juveniles occur on school days, even though only about half of the days in a year are school days you know there is a problem. Or maybe it is more visible with the knowledge that 25 % of inner-city school students report carrying a weapon in school, and 44 % report carrying weapons out of school. No one really needs statistics to see we have a problem. You can watch any news program and hear others horror stories. Our nations schools once a protected have...
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Brought In At A Time Experiment
466 wordsThe most famous experiment Milgram conducted was also his most controversial. The issue dealt with the people's right to know on what he / she is being studied. On the surface, the experiment looked legit and totally scientific. Two people were brought in at a time and each would draw from a hat. One would be the teacher, one the learner. After going over exactly how the "shock treatment" worked, the teacher went to his control panel and the learner was hooked up to electrodes. The teacher would...
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Deep Sea High Temperature
600 wordsts, and biochemical pathways. In comparing the organism 60 % of M. jannaschii's coding regions did not correlate with the known sequence database. 40 % of the coding regions match the sequences of bacteria and eukaryotes. Those sequences that are similar to bacteria are genes related to energy production, cell division, and metabolism, whereas the transcription, translation, and replication gene sequences seem to be more similar to eukaryotes. EM/ Methanococcus jannaschii /EM consists of three p...
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Artificial Intelligence Computing Power
1,378 words... halt. The lesson to draw from this episode is not that strong AI is dead and that super intelligent machines will never be built. It shows that AI is more difficult than some of the early pioneers might have thought, but it goes no way towards showing that AI will forever remain In retrospect we know that the AI project couldn't possibly have succeeded at that stage. The hardware was simply not powerful enough. It seems that at least about 100 Tops is required for human-like performance, and...
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Information Symptoms And Treatment Of Schizophrenia
1,557 wordsSchizophrenia is a chronic and debilitating mental illness. The disease can cause you to withdraw from the people and activities in the world around you and retreat into a world of delusions and fantasies. Schizophrenia is the most common and destructive kind of psychosis, which is an impairment of thinking in which your interpretation of reality can be severely abnormal. Psychosis is a symptom of a disordered brain. Researchers haven't identified the cause or causes of schizophrenia, although t...
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Nature Vs Nurture Debate
1,184 wordsThere is an issue that has been conferred upon by philosophers in the past and still so by scientists today. This issue is whether heredity or environment plays a greater role in the determining or shaping of an individual's behavior. It is known as the nature versus nurture debate. Numerous generations before us have deliberated on the reasons behind the development of human behavior. There have been many theories formulated to explain why humans behave the way they do. The surviving theories f...
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Correctional Facility Vast Majority
958 wordsRegular Family Visits The family is probably this countrys most valuable weapon in fighting crime. Prisoners who receive visitors, maintain family ties, and are released to a stable home environment are more likely to succeed in leading productive, crime-free lives. Arguably, psychosocial regression is the fate of the vast majority of the prisoners. It is unlikely anyone would escape the common lot, as, according to the researchers, the insignificant minority of the prisoners manages to control ...
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Occupational Safety And Health Field Of Science
490 wordsErgonomics is becoming an increasingly important field of science. It works to understand and adapt to people s physical and mental limitations in the workplace. The data collected from studies on these types of things could be used to ease the use of products, and in adapting to environments. Ergonomics is used to prevent illnesses that are sometimes caused by repeating a task over and over again. This overextends some muscles while completely ignoring others, thus causing an imbalance in the w...
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Rest Of The World Playing Field
1,456 wordsIs the Internet really a Global phenomenon? Since the beginning of time, mankind has been involved in a never-ending quest to learn more about the world in which he lives. Our natural curiosity leads us to question everything and investigate the way in which the world around us works. Human beings also have a natural tendency to want to explore and see things in the world around them which they have never seen before. It is in that sense that the Internet is a perfect extension of human nature. ...
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Annales Cambriae King Arthur
1,314 wordsClodfelter 1 Christopher Clodfelter English 201 Mr. Miller February 14, 1999 King Arthur, an Enduring Legend The mystical references to Arthur and his adventures are dated in literature in some form for over 1400 years, verifying the enduring appeal of this romantic character. Since the beginnings of the English language there have been legends of great heroes. The first settlements of Britain produced stories rooted in ancient Celtic and Germanic imagination; of the many, Arthur is undoubtedly ...
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Aggressive Behavior Violent Juvenile
801 wordsI. Marijuana causes behavioral changes A. Chronic Marijuana users become more aggressive during withdrawal. People who have smoked marijuana daily for many years display more aggressive behavior when they stop smoking the drug, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard Medical School. The study, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health, is further evidence that a withdrawal syndrome is associated with abstinence from long-term marijuana use, a...
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U S District Court Miranda V
691 wordsThe Miranda rights all started in 1963. Ernest Miranda was taken into custody by Phoenix police as a suspect for the kidnapping and rape of a girl. The Phoenix police department questioned Ernest for two vigorous hours. Miranda finally confessed orally to the crime, and then wrote out a statement admitting to the crime and describing what he had done. Miranda's trial came to date; the crime was admitted despite his lawyers advice and he was convicted and sentenced. Three years later Miranda's ap...
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