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Clean Air Act Environmental Protection Agency
1,285 words1990, the federal Clean Air Act was passed to improve air quality in the United States. President Bush's proposed amendments to the Clean Air Act initially would have led to the introduction of alternative, non-petroleum fuels. The petroleum and oxygenate industries responded by offering a reformulated gasoline program as a substitute for most of the alternate fuel proposals. As a result, the amendments to the federal Clean Air Act adopted in 1990 required steps to achieve lower vehicle emission...
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Effects Of Marijuana Psychological Effects
1,209 wordsEssay Question: Outline the use of marijuana and identify the acute and chronic harmful biological and psychological effects of marijuana on individuals. The use of marijuana is widespread by all classes, races, and cultures. Marijuana has been used for a multitude of purposes over thousands of years, and is still, today, is being used for many of the same purposes. (Hawks 1982) It is some of the possible outcomes of the usage of marijuana, and a brief history of marijuana that will be discussed...
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Mao Inhibitors Gastrointestinal Tract
1,358 wordsComparison Between Mechanism of Action and Pharmacodynamics of Dothiepin and Fluoxetine Mechanism of action and pharmacodynamic's Dothiepin is a tricyclic antidepressant. It acts by promoting the effectiveness of several amines (dopamine, norepinephrine, and 5 -hydroxytryptamine, which is also known as 5 HT and serotonin). It functions by inhibiting their reuptake at the terminals of nerve cells, thus leading to their prolonged presence at the synaptic cleft and an increased effect on the neuron...
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Three Minutes Half Life
528 wordsThere are 109 known elements, and of those, 19 of them are artificially produced or synthetic. A synthetic element is made by bombarding atomic nuclei with neutrons or other particles. The element Lawrencium has been made in this manner. While scientists continue to work to create more elements, it should be noted that most synthetic elements are so unstable, that they are of theoretical value only, and have no known practical uses. This element was discovered at the Lawrence Radiation Laborator...
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Death In Life Figures Of Speech
973 wordsAlfred Lord Tennyson, a Victorian poet, used characters from history and mythology for his poetry. Much of his poetry touches upon the subject of death and loneliness. For example, the Lady of Shallot dies when she looks beyond her inner world, Mariana lives in constant sadness over her departed lover, and Tithonus lives forever in an agony worse than death. With a background of melancholia, isolation or anguish Tennyson conveys themes of half-life and death-in-life by the use of uses imagery, s...
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Study Of The Nuclear Disaster Chernobyl
1,164 wordsThe worst accident in the history of this nuclear power generation occurred on the morning of April 26, 1986. It was at the Chernobyl (Ukraine) nuclear power station in the Soviet Union. At 1: 32 AM Lieutenant Colonel Leonid Telyatnikov received a telephone call and was told that there was a fire at the nuclear power plant. There were many reasons their plant had backfired. These reasons included human error and poor plant design due to the cold war. Chernobyl was located in the former Soviet Un...
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Anxiety Disorders Withdrawal Symptoms
489 wordsLorazepam is in the class of drugs called benzodiazepines. Lorazepam is a sedative anxiolytic medication. It is noted for the management of anxiety disorders and for the short-term relief of the symptoms of anxiety or anxiety associated with depressive symptoms. Like most other benzodiazepines, patients using lorazepam can develop a tolerance to it. In other words, patients will have to use more and more in order to get the desired effect of the medication. As a tolerance to lorazepam builds, a ...
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Carbon Dating F X
848 wordsCollege Math Rational Functions The function is rational when it can be represented as the quotient of polynomials. Actually, all polynomials are rational functions. Standard rational function can be described as follows: f (x) = g (x) /h (x). Both p and q are polynomials. G (x) is called the denominator, and p (x) is called the numerator. Asymptote for f (x) function represents a straight line that is approached but never reached by f (x) function. Lets examine three types of asymptotes: a) Ver...
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Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy
1,592 words... radioactive seeds into the prostate (brachytherapy). External beam radiation therapy is given over a course of 6 to 8 weeks through carefully defined portals. Refinements in technique have allowed greater doses of radiation to be administered with a lower risk of morbidity. Three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy is the preferred method of administration in a dose of 75 to 80 Gy. (Greenlee 32). Radiation therapy cannot cure nodal metastases. Disease-specific, 7 -year survival with radiation...
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Muscle Fibers Muscle Tissue
2,119 wordsThe True Side Effects f Sterid's What, exactly, are sterid's? Usually called arabic sterid's, they are synthetic substances similar in chemical structure t the home test sterne. Test sterne is free called the male sex home, but females price it t. In bth sexes, test sterne prices the growth f skeletal muscles, the muscles that are connected t the skeleton and enable a person t me. The muscle-growing property f test sterne is called its arabic effect. In males, test sterne surges car twice in lif...
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Factor Viii Factor Ix
1,170 wordsRobert Morris Haemophilia Haemophilia Robert Morris In the human body, each cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, one of each pair inherited through the egg from the mother, and the other inherited through the sperm of the father. Of these chromosomes, those that determine sex are X and Y. Females have XX and males have XY. In addition to the information on sex, the X chromosomes carry determinants for a number of other features of the body including the levels of factor VIII and factor IX. 1 I...
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Clean Air Act Environmental Protection Agency
1,282 words1990, the federal Clean Air Act was passed to improve air quality in the United States. President Bush's proposed amendments to the Clean Air Act initially would have led to the introduction of alternative, non-petroleum fuels. The petroleum and oxygenate industries responded by offering a reformulated gasoline program as a substitute for most of the alternate fuel proposals. As a result, the amendments to the federal Clean Air Act adopted in 1990 required steps to achieve lower vehicle emission...
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Mao Inhibitors Gastrointestinal Tract
1,367 wordsDothiepin Vs. Fluoxetine (Mechanism Of Action And Dothiepin Vs. Fluoxetine (Mechanism Of Action And Pharmacodynamics) Comparison Between Mechanism of Action and Pharmacodynamics of Dothiepin and Fluoxetine Description of medicines Mechanism of action and pharmacodynamic's Dothiepin Dothiepin is a tricyclic antidepressant. It acts by promoting the effectiveness of several amines (dopamine, norepinephrine, and 5 -hydroxytryptamine, which is also known as 5 HT and serotonin). It functions by inhibi...
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Factor Viii Factor Ix
1,119 wordsIn the human body, each cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, one of each pair inherited through the egg from the mother, and the other inherited through the sperm of the father. Of these chromosomes, those that determine sex are X and Y. Females have XX and males have XY. In addition to the information on sex, the X chromosomes carry determinants for a number of other features of the body including the levels of factor VIII and factor IX. 1 If the genetic information determining the factor VII...
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Nuclear Waste Half Life
977 wordsThe mathematical notion of infinity can be conceptualized in many different ways. First, as counting by hundreds for the rest of our lives, an endless quantity. It can also be thought of as digging a whole in hell for eternity, negative infinity. The concept I will explore, however, is infinitely smaller quantities, through radioactive decay Infinity is by definition an indefinitely large quantity. It is hard to grasp the magnitude of such an idea. When we examine infinity further by setting up ...
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Washington D C Nuclear Reactions
3,145 wordsNuclear Energy You are watching the control panels and gages for rector two. Sitting comely you think about how easy your job is. It is a joke! All day you sit around and watch the gages for reactor number two just to make sure they maintain their settings. You don? t even need to look at the gages either because a computer automatically regulates them without you. Life is so good. Suddenly all the sirens go of and the gages and displays spin wildly in every direction. The ground shakes and you ...
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Darwin Theory Earth Surface
2,710 wordsEvolution, a process of change through time, is what links together the enormous diversity of the living world. A lot of evidence is present that indicates that the earth has had a very long history and that all living things arose in the course of that history from earlier, more simpler forms. In other words, all species have descended from other species and all living things share common ancestors in the past. Basically, organisms are what they are because of their history. Today there are man...
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Piece Of Literature Atomic Bomb
4,430 wordsThe Atomic Bomb and its Effects on Post-World War II American Literature Rob Gioielli Mrs. Mcfarlansenior English 6 Dec. 1994 Gioielli 1 Rob Gioielli Mrs. Mcfarlansenior English 6 Dec. 1994 Then a tremendous flash of light cut across the sky. Mr. Tanimoto has a distinct recollection that it traveled from east to west, from the city toward the hills. It seemed like a sheet of sun. +John Hersey, from Hiroshima, pp. 8 On August 6, 1945, the world changed forever. On that day the United States of Am...
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