-
World Health Organization People With Aids
1,735 wordsThesis: The AIDS and HIV viruses are getting worse in the United States and the rest of the world. Although more people die of heart disease and cancer each year, AIDS has become the health problem people fear the most. Much of the fear comes from ignorance and misunderstanding. Education is the most effective tool against AIDS. It is more important than ever for young people to learn the facts about AIDS. Many teenagers don't know anyone who has AIDS. It is hard for them to believe they are at ...
Free research essays on topics related to: leading cause of death, hiv and aids, cases of aids, people with aids, world health organization -
Pope John Paul Ii Genetic Engineering
1,754 wordsThe Benefits and Risks of Genetic Engineering The arrival of genetic engineering presents Catholics with an interesting moral dilemma. Although it clearly brings with it immense benefits for the entire human race, certain aspects of it don't bide by Catholic moral teachings. If a doctor uses biotechnology to diagnose or cure a patient, is he playing God, or simply saving life? Due to issues like these, the Catholic Church holds certain reservations when it comes to this new field in science. The...
Free research essays on topics related to: genetic engineering, pope john paul ii, genetic makeup, genetic testing, genetic defects -
American Cancer Society Prostate Cancer
1,044 wordsCancer of the prostate is defined as a malignant tumor growth within the prostate gland. The purpose of the prostate gland is to surround the urethra, which is the tube within you urinary system that carries the urine from the bladder to the penis, the male sex organ. According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 180, 000 cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed in the United States. The American Cancer Society also states that from these 180, 000 cases, and approximate 32, 000 men die fr...
Free research essays on topics related to: early stage, american cancer society, cancer cells, prostate cancer, prostate gland -
Beginning Of The Story Story The Reader
731 wordsMany authors use mood shifts in their stories to leave a greater impact on the reader and make it easier to understand. The particular state of mind or feelings of a person is ones mood. Various aspects of ones surroundings can alter a mood. A story often creates a specific mood or even causes a number of different moods to arise in a short period of time. Shirley Jacksons short story, "The Lottery" does just that, by forcing different moods to surface in various sections of the story. The peace...
Free research essays on topics related to: tessie hutchinson, story the reader, shirley jacksons, beginning of the story, mood -
Biological Warfare Biological Weapons
1,873 wordsThere is no longer a question of whether or not a bioterrorism will attack, but rather the question remains, when will they attack? It is highly likely that a terrorist group could threaten or attack Americans with germs within the next few years, according to President Clinton. (Solomon) Biological warfare intentionally uses viruses, bacteria, fungi, or toxins from living organisms and death or disease in humans, animals, or plants. Fermentation can be used to produce such bacterial agents as a...
Free research essays on topics related to: president clinton, biological weapons, terrorist attacks, biological warfare, mass destruction -
Small Cell Lung Cell Lung Cancer
824 wordsLung cancer is an uncontrolled, extremely deadly division of cells in the lung (World Book, Lung Cancer). The two major types of lung cancer include small and non-small cell. Many different risk factors contribute to lung cancer. There are numerous symptoms that are difficult to detect in the early stages of lung cancer. Doctors use special machines to detect the severity of each stage. Treatments and cures differ in each individual case. Lung cancer is a huge problem because it is the leading c...
Free research essays on topics related to: scientific american, american lung, small cell lung, cell lung cancer, radiation therapy -
Miles Per Hour Rocky Mountains
1,499 wordsFacts. A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous destruction with wind speeds of two hundred and fifty miles per hour or more. Damage paths can be in excess of one mile wide and fifty miles long. In an average year, eight hundred tornadoes are reported nationwide, resulting in eighty deaths and over one thousand five hundred injuries. Types Of Tornadoes. The average tornado is usually spli...
Free research essays on topics related to: nine percent, atmospheric conditions, miles per hour, wind speeds, rocky mountains -
Scuba Diving Psychological Stress
1,084 words... they do not recognize the symptoms of stress before they culminate into full blown panic ("High Anxiety"). Stress comes in two major forms one being physical stress and the other psychological stress. Physical stress isn't a tough one to detect, it is simply when you are exerting yourself at a higher level, when you are in harsh conditions such as being in cold water, being sick, or any number of things that affect you physically. Psychological stress on the other hand is not so easy to dete...
Free research essays on topics related to: one hundred, physical stress, hundred feet, psychological stress, scuba diving -
Department Of Homeland Security Lack Of Trust
1,433 words... s or be allocated irrationally. However, I have to notice that I do not mean by any chance to say that the creation of any additional agency is necessarily evil. Yet, Homeland Security will require from now on more attention on behalf of Bush and his Administration to the proper functioning of any additional institutions. Otherwise, the efficiency of such security policy will be extremely low. As for implementation of new technological advances in detecting any kind of criminal procedures, t...
Free research essays on topics related to: military operations, national security, lack of trust, law enforcement, department of homeland security -
Blurred Vision Color Blindness
1,009 words... interpreted, and sight occurs. Light must pass through the covering layers of the retina to reach the layer of rods and cones. There are about 75 to 150 million cones in the human retina. Rods do not detect lines, points, or color. They perceive only light and dark tones in an image. The sensitive rods can determine outlines of objects in almost complete darkness. They make it possible for people to see in darkness or at night. Cones are the keenest of the retina's receptor cells. They detec...
Free research essays on topics related to: retina, cones, color blindness, blurred vision, lens -
Neutrino Energy Spectrum Neutrinos Have Mass Produced
856 wordsOne of the current questions in physics is whether or not neutrinos have mass and what this mass is. Neutrinos are subatomic particles that have no electrical charge and interact only via the weak nuclear force. They are products of radioactive decay processes, and thus are produced abundantly in our Sun, our atmosphere, and in other astrophysical sources such as supernovae and active galactic nuclei. Millions and millions of them are crossing through the Earth every second, but only very few of...
Free research essays on topics related to: particles, nuclear reactions, electron, physics, decay -
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 ...
Free research essays on topics related to: threats, computer security, controls, phone system, phone -
Consumption Of Alcohol Health Risks
611 wordsDrugs are illegal in most countries and the extermination of drugs has always been one of our most important worldwide issues. Ending the existence of drugs is one of the toughest and most complicated goal we face. With all the effort we put into the issue, why is there little success? Lack of effort is not a major reason the attempts are failing. It is the lack of understanding that leads to the misdirection and failure of the attempts. As long as a strong desire to use drugs exists, drugs want...
Free research essays on topics related to: date rape, health risks, consumption of alcohol, ghb, liquid -
Speed Of The Vehicle Phazer Sends Police
387 wordsNowadays, speed-detection technology has become more and more advanced, and not getting a speeding ticket is almost unavoidable. There are a lot of devices around that can help drivers detect the police traps, but these devices are illegal in many states. As people are driving down the interstate with their cruise control set over the speed limit, many get scared of a police car parked on the side of the road. Right after they pass the trap they look at the speedometer and their rear mirror, hop...
Free research essays on topics related to: police car, signals, vehicle, devices, radar -
Social Psychology And Theories On Racism
1,443 wordsAversive racism is a term use by Gaertner and Dovido to describe white Americans who have been socialized by the racial history of American culture, along with the cognitive tendency to categorize information which results in subtle, yet commonplace racial beliefs and feelings, while keeping strong egalitarian values. This keeps the aversive racist stuck between their learned negative view of other races and their egalitarian values and beliefs. The sources of the negativity that underlies the a...
Free research essays on topics related to: theory states, negative attitude, scarce resources, gang warfare, conflict theory -
Spinal Cord Multiple Sclerosis
1,363 words... nt of hearing loss based on the amplitudes of the signals (fifth wave). With this information, physicians can decide how to treat the hearing loss and to what degree. A person who is completely deaf would exhibit flat-line responses. The BAEP can also detect lesions in the auditory cortex or any place in the auditory pathway. These abnormalities could also be attributed to tumors or acoustic neuromas, which are non-cancerous growths on the vestibulocochlear nerve in the brain. The BAEP is es...
Free research essays on topics related to: hearing loss, spinal cord, multiple sclerosis, operating room, evoked -
Blind Spot Enlargement In Non Athletes
1,160 wordsEveryone has a blind spot in the visual field caused by an absence of nerves on the retinal wall where the nerve ganglia enter. Our brains 'correct' this blind spot by filling-in the missing information so that we do not notice the blind spot in normal, daily activity. There have been a few studies conducted to determine how the brain compensates for the phenomenon. Recent studies indicate that in certain people seeking chiropractic treatment, unequal blind spots result from musculoskeletal misa...
Free research essays on topics related to: general health, visual field, naturally occurring, health benefits, general public -
Sarbanes Oxley Act Ethical Conduct
1,223 wordsRunning Head: Ethical Conduct Ethical Conduct (Authors Name) (Institution Name) Code of Ethical Conduct: Introduction In the present day environments, activities related to business organizations are under more scrutiny then ever before by the government regulatory authorities, clients, shareholders and the general public. Therefore, the ethical conduct of business managers and their employees have become more important in the wake of large-scale business scandals that have rocked the confidence...
Free research essays on topics related to: sarbanes oxley act, ethical codes, accessed april, ethical conduct, ethical standards -
Neural Tube Defects Children With Down Syndrome
2,759 wordsDowns syndrome is a genetic condition involving an extra chromosome, this change occurs around the time of conception. A person with Downs syndrome has forty-seven chromosomes instead of the usual forty-six. A relatively common genetic disorder, Downs strikes 1 out of 600 babies. In 95 percent of all cases, the disorder originates with the egg, not the sperm, and the only known risk factor is advanced maternal age-at age 35, a woman has 1 chance in 117 of having a baby with Downs; at 40, her odd...
Free research essays on topics related to: child with down syndrome, neural tube defects, vitro fertilization, people with down syndrome, children with down syndrome -
Performance Enhancing Drugs Urine Samples
688 wordsWith all the hype of payoffs to IOC members in the media today, it might sound as if that is the greatest threat to international sport. The real threat to the Olympics and international sport is the use of dangerous drugs which enhance the performance of professional and Olympic athletes around the world. Given the great number of athletes who use performance-enhancing drugs and evade detection, it might seem as if officials are turning a blind eye to the problem. Officials are in fact trying v...
Free research essays on topics related to: urine samples, religious groups, growth hormone, blood cells, performance enhancing drugs
Customer center
