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Smooth Muscle Blood Flow
1,611 wordsDirections: The following exam consists of various types of questions designed to test the critical reasoning skills of the examinee. Answers are found on the following page, with rationales. This is a Twenty question test, with an allotted time of 45 minutes to indulge ones academic and clinical prowess. Questions 1 - 4 are based on the following scenario: A 55 year old male, medium body build of 90 Kg presents complaining of acute shortness of breath. He has a history of CHF and acute respirat...
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Fossil Fuels Greenhouse Gases
679 wordsRepresentatives of major corporations that will be affected by the Kyoto Protocol should play a major role in the procedures: Many corporations that will be affected by decisions made during the procedures are some of the most powerful decision makers in the world. the policies that these corporations adopt influence the decisions made by governments on a global scale. In fact, many of their annual incomes are larger than the GDPs of some countries. When embarking on a global conference, it only...
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Hospice Care Medical Record
1,920 wordsAs we have learned, the hospice idea is not new. Literally meaning "given to hospitality, " hospices provided comfort, kindness, and nourishment to people in need hundreds of years ago. Today, hospices offer comfort to people as they near the end of life's journey. Hospice is a special way of caring for people with terminal illnesses and their families. It is a multidisciplinary health care program that is responsible for palliative and supportive care with consideration of the patient's and fam...
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Brain Damage Body Weight
1,503 wordsAlterations in feeding behaviour of female rats at varying phases of their reproductive sequence as a result of lesions in various parts of the amygdala The topic of this proposed research is the role of the amygdala in hunger and satiety following damage in female infant and adult rats as a result of sexual and maternal activity. Data will be collected from 200 female albino rats, 50 infants and 150 adults of the Sprague-Dawley strain. Hunger and satiety will be analysed following feeding behav...
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Personality Disorder Social Relationships
1,668 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Question: Are Narcissists also schizoids? Answer: This is not a question about dual diagnosis or co-morbidity. The implications of a positive answer run much deeper than a mere listing of traits and behaviours. This is the definition of the Schizoid Personality Disorder (SPD) in the DSM IV (1994): A. A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of ...
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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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Sexual Harassment Indirect Discrimination
1,308 wordsThrough out the years there have been many factors that affect the operation of the legal system to help generate just outcomes for women. Historically, women have always held an inferior place to men, but during the 20 th century this concept has changed considerably. The status of women has changed in terms of political suffrage, jury duty, economic rights, property rights, social security and minority groups. However, women still suffer disadvantages and to try to resolve particular problems ...
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Artificial Intelligence Human Beings
984 wordsArtificial Intelligence has been the subject of many movies and countless science fiction novels. But what happens when we seriously consider the question of computers that think. Is it possible for computers to have complex thoughts, and even emotions? This paper will seek to answer that question and give an idea about how artificial intelligence will effect the world of tomorrow. As has long been known, invincible chess can theoretically be played by a mindless system, as long as it follows a ...
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Blood Flow Carbon Dioxide
1,475 wordsCaring for women in pregnancy presents a unique challenge to the healthcare team. Obstetrical nursing requires an in-depth knowledge of the physiological, psychological, and social processes of the high-risk childbearing woman and her fetus during pregnancy. In a community hospital setting, care challenges can be further complicated by the possible limitations of available resources. The following case study will explore the necessary insights and their implications in caring for the high-risk p...
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Anna Freud Reaction Formation
1,813 wordsThe defense mechanisms Freud's daughter, Anna, who still does psychoanalysis, summarized several ego defenses in The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense (1936). As noted above, the ego protects itself from three threats: (l) the id, because the urges from the id can become so strong that they overwhelm the ego, bringing with them irrational chaos. Thus, we might panic if our sexual or brutally hostile urges popped into our conscience. (2) The outside world or real danger. For example, the ego woul...
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Nerve Cells Bobs Brain Bob
645 wordsTo celebrate Bobs nineteenth birthday, his friends decide to drag him to a bar and fill him with beer. Bob reluctantly agrees. The group gathers at a table and orders a pitcher of beer. Bob, the birthday boy, is designated to have the first drink. Bob watches nervously as his friends fill his glass with beer. Drink up Bob! Bobs friends say with enthusiasm. All eyes are gaze keenly upon Bob. Bob takes a deep breath, picks up the glass, and chugs it as if he is dying of thirst. Bob proudly puts do...
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Thermal Expansion Safety Features
966 wordsA circuit breaker was examined to determine how it works. Basically, it is designed to disconnect the current if the current passing through the breaker is higher than the allowable current. Its main parts consist of a switch, connecting pads, and the disconnect device. Since the breaker consists of many individual parts, the only improvement found was to combine some of the parts into a single part. Introduction Our group dissected a thirty-amp household Circuit-breaker. Its purpose is to prote...
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Experimental Psychology Cognitive Ability
2,501 wordsBottlenose dolphins are among the most vocal of the nonhuman animals and exhibit remarkable development of the sound production and auditory mechanisms. This can be seen in audition, which is shown in the animal's highly refined echolocation ability, and in tightly organized schools in which they live that are made up by sound communication. In testing the communication skills of dolphins, extensive studies have been done on vocal mimicry, in which the animal imitates computer-generated sounds i...
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Thought Or Feeling Ego And The Superego Defense
701 wordsAccording to Sigmund Freud's structural theory of the mind, the id, the ego and the superego function in different levels of consciousness. There is a constant movement of memories and impulses from one level to another. The id is the unconscious storage area of our drives, which are constantly active. Ruled by the pleasure principle, the id demands immediate satisfaction of all its urges, regard- less of what undesirable effects may be caused. The ego operates mainly in cons- cross and preconsc...
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Family And Friends Survivors Of The Holocaust
2,145 wordsPolitical Psychology THE Holocaust Michael Lazar Political Psychology THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF THE HOLOCAUST The Holocaust was a tragic point in history which many people believe never happened. Others who survived it thought it should never have been. Not only did this affect the people who lived through it, it also affected everyone who was connected to those fortunate individuals who survived. The survivors were lucky to have made it but there are times when their memories and flashbacks ...
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Social Learning Theory Operant Conditioning
1,591 wordsThroughout the first half of the twentieth century, psychologists tended to believe that the explanations offered by classical and operant conditioning were fully adequate to understand human behaviour. Classical conditioning is a form of learning in which a conditioned and unconditioned stimulus become associated, such that the former comes to elicit a response previously elicited only by the latter. It is also known as the Pavlovian or respondent conditioning. Operant conditioning is a form of...
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Kyoto Protocol Greenhouse Gases
1,742 wordsThe Kyoto Protocol: Advantages and Limitations The advent of industrialized civilization has brought to us many remarkable feats that enhance our everyday lives. Such things as automobiles, airplanes, tractors, mainframe computers, and even relatively simple machines like lawnmowers have intertwined themselves into the everyday culture of modern day industrialized countries... These products have provided us enormous benefits compared to the types of lives our ancestors used to live. In the eyes...
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Amino Acids Reader Feels
1,525 wordsTHE LANGUAGE OF THE CELL MAY 3 rd, 1996 SCIENCE 10 AP BOOK INFORMATION LIBRARY: Fish Creek Area Library NAME OF BOOK: The Language of the Cell AUTHOR: Claude Korean PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill, Inc. PUBLICATION DATE: 1993 CALL NUMBER: 3 9065 03969 1246 DUE DATE: May 3 rd, 1996 The cell is a complex and delicate system: It can be seen that the cell is the stage where everyday functions such as molecule movement, protein synthesis and tissue repair take place. All organelles within the cell are well re...
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Family And Friends Survivors Of The Holocaust
622 wordsThe Survivors of the Holocaust: General Survey Because the traumatization of the Holocaust was both individual and collective, most individuals made efforts to create a new family to replace the nuclear family that had been lost. In order for the victims to resist dehumanization and regression and to find support, the members of such groups shared stories about the past, fantasies of the future and joint prayers as well as poetry and expressions of personal and general human aspirations for hope...
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Family And Friends Survivors Of The Holocaust
2,189 wordsThe Holocaust was a tragic point in history which many people believe never happened. Others who survived it thought it should never have been. Not only did this affect the people who lived through it, it also affected everyone who was connected to those fortunate individuals who survived. The survivors were lucky to have made it but there are times when their memories and flashbacks have made them wish they were the ones who died instead of living with the horrible aftermath. The psychological ...
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