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Man-made CFCs Are Jeopardizing Our Future
Number of Words: 2014 / Number of Pages: 8
... coolant in refrigerators and air conditioners, in foam and plastic insulation, and in industrial solvents (Caldara 20).
Industry began using CFCs in the World War II era. In 1973, atmospheric chemists F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina of the University of California at Irvine postulated the connection between ozone depletion and CFCs. Although CFCs were found to be harmful to the ozone twenty three years ago they are still in active use today. According to The Alliance of Responsible CFC Policy, the value of the annual production of these chemicals in the U.S. alone plus the materials and service ...
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Number of Words: 581 / Number of Pages: 3
... Maternal and Child Post
traumatic... 28)".
Children are now becoming realized as significant sufferers of
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is particularly
bad for children under the age of 11, because they lack many of the skills
needed to protect themselves. Furthermore, this vulnerability is enhanced when
the child is exposed to any maltreatment. According to recent studies,
"Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is a common sequella of severe or chronic
maltreatment of children, particularly among sexually maltreated children (
Famularo, Symptom Differences... 28)". Post ...
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Current Status Of Malaria Vaccinology
Number of Words: 2165 / Number of Pages: 8
... sporozoites along with
saliva. The sporozoites head directly for the hepatic cells of the liver where
they multiply by asexual fission to produce merozoites. These merozoites can now
travel one of two paths. They can go to infect more hepatic liver cells or they
can attach to and penetrate erytherocytes. When inside the erythrocytes the
plasmodium enlarges into uninucleated cells called trophozites The nucleus of
this newly formed cell then divides asexually to produce a schizont, which has
6-24 nuclei.
Now the multinucleated schizont then divides to produce mononucleated merozoites
. Eventually ...
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Our World In Medicine
Number of Words: 1226 / Number of Pages: 5
... this
time, they knew little about how the human body works or what causes disease.
But medicine has gone through many stages throughout history.
In prehistoric times, people believed that angry gods or evil spirits
caused disease. To cure the sick, the gods had to be pacified or the evil
spirits driven from the body. In time, this task became the job of the first
"physicians".3 The first - known surgical treatment was an operation called
trephining. Trephining involved use of a stone instrument to cut a hole in a
patient's skull. Scientists have found fossils of such skulls that date back as
fa ...
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Biosafety Protocol: Is There A Need For One?
Number of Words: 1684 / Number of Pages: 7
... experts warn that there is a danger that biotechnology
can create mutant hybrids.
B. Biotechnology has the potential to harm the economies of some
developing nations.
C. The last and possible the most important argument for an
international biosafety protocol is in the name of ignorance
and caution
III. The United States, Germany, Japan, and Australia are the only
countries opposed to the biosafety protocol.
IV. The need for a change in the world of agriculture is undeniable. ...
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Psychology: Stress Paper
Number of Words: 545 / Number of Pages: 2
... there is no advantage from doing either, but they still appear in my life and cause stressful situations that involve things like peer pressure. The demerit card and the cars running into each other are things that have gotten me into trouble caused stress in my life. The fights that I have been in, both verbally and physically, have left me in stress because I have spent so much of my time explaining and worrying about them. The hurricane represents when my relatives stay with us when their weather encourages them to travel. My relatives create stress for me by sleeping in my bed, asking all ki ...
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The History Of Medicine
Number of Words: 1138 / Number of Pages: 5
... of dried mud put directly on wounds. Fire brought not only burns, but
cautery .
Civilization came to be around 12,000 BC. Diseases were treated if
minor with domestic remedies such as diet, herbs, plasters, and massage.
Often, if the case was severe, the patient was killed to relieve the
community of his burden, or the healer was summoned. Old shaman's
techniques were more based on myth and magic. Magic was man's first
attempt to understand nature. Defensive magic used fetishes (objects
endowed with magical powers), amulets (protective objects against black
magic), and talismans (good ...
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Type II Diabetes
Number of Words: 1512 / Number of Pages: 6
... in 1980, she stated on page five that Type II is not a hereditary disorder. I concluded that Type II is hereditary because all the newer sources support that fact. In my source from the Ames Center for Diabetes Center (written in 1995) Jackson and Weir stated that the gene, or genes, responsible for the most common kinds of remain a mystery. Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center have identified one gene that may contribute to the development of Type II. Recently, scientists have found two genes that can cause some forms of diabetes. Defects in the genes can cause a variation in the kind of diabet ...
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Abortion
Number of Words: 1799 / Number of Pages: 7
... moment of conception, a new human life has been created.
Only those who allow their emotional passion to overide their knowledge,
can deny it: only those who are irrational or ignorant of science, doubt that
when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum a new human being is created. A new
human being who carries genes in its cells that make that human being uniquely
different from any and other human being and yet, undeniably a member, as we all
are, of the great human family. All the fetus needs to grow into a babe, a child,
an old man, is time, nutrition and a suitable environment. It is determined a ...
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B Cells And T Cells
Number of Words: 531 / Number of Pages: 2
... cell. They also produce antibodies, however they live for long periods of time (up to a lifetime), compared to a plasma cell that lives only a few days. Memory cells are made so they can recognize this same antigen if it were to ever reenter the body again.
Interactions between T cells are also known as the cell-mediated response. T cells are not just active against viruses and bacteria, but they also interact with eukaryotic cells. There are three types of T cells: helper T cells, suppressor T cells, and cytotoxic T cells. The T cell receptor (helper T cells) recognizes foreign antigens displ ...
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