Asthma 2
.... sleeping for eight hours at a time. Dust mites collect in your bedding, curtains, pillows and rugs. To avoid this, you should have your mattress and pillows sealed in a plastic covering, no curtains and you should have hard wood floors in your bedroom, instead of rugs or carpets.
" Office Visits: From 1975 to 1993-1995, the estimated annual number of office visits for asthma more than doubled, from 4.6 million to 10.4 million. Increasing rates were evident among all race, both sexes, and all age .....
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Atention Defficit Disorder
.... the bottom of the pool several minutes later.
Hyperactivity is a real problem for people with ADD especially in children. Parents will usually describe them as always on the go. ADD girls tend to be less hyperactive than ADD boys are. The hyperactivity usually fades by adolescence. This doesn't mean all the symptoms are gone though. There are only a limited number of ADD children who can't sit still at all.
ADD kids try to be the class clown when they are really quite clever. Attenti .....
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Atomic Bombs
.... and killed a total of 115,000 people in only a few minutes according to a local newspaper in Japan. Moreover, the second bomb being dropped at Nagasaki killed an average of 70,000 people. In these two blasts, entire families perished, leaving no one to report the death until four months from the catastrophe. This has made the Atomic Bomb the most powerful weapon ever invented in mankind.
Secondly, countries that produce these bombs are harming others as well as themselves if there was war. .....
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Augiga The Charioteer
.... really the combined
brightness of the primary star and another star that
revolves every 104 days. This star is also known as
Menkalina. The star name derives from the Arabic name Al
Mankib dhi'l Inan, "The Shoulder of the One Who Holds the
Reins," that is, "The Shoulder of the Charioteer." Several
open clusters are found in Auriga. Each contains about 100
stars and is about 2,700 light years away. The main part of
Auriga is a five-sided figure of first, second, third
magnitude stars. The .....
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Aurora Borealis 2
.... auroras as jumping goats caused by the earth=s vapours being set on fire by meteors. Later on, in 1707, a Norwegian physicist claimed that they were caused by steam and smoke that escaped from a heat source beneath Greenland. It was not until the late 1950's that scientists finally discovered the true cause of the aurorasC Solar Wind.
Solar Wind
Approximately every eleven years, explosions erupt from sun spots creating what are called Solar Flares. These flares can extend tens of thousands of k .....
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Avalanches
.... for an avalanche zone. Another way is for surface hoar to develop, or large ice crystal on the snow. This is usually caused by condensation on the snow surface. This will also have poor bonding characteristics, and cause for a potential slide. The crystal itself is also very stable and will stay in that formation until melted usually. Slab avalanches usually only occur between 35-45 degree slopes and on a concave slope. There are ways possible to test for an avalanche zone. These tests have been develo .....
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Cable Modems Are The Wave Of The Future
.... provider's backbone, the @Home Network has taken steps to avoid this problem. The process is called caching, and it involves making copies of frequently accessed web pages that are then placed on a very fast, highly available server called a proxy server. The proxy servers continually verify that the cached copies are the same as the most current versions of the web pages available.
References
http://www.home.net/corp/network.html
www.coxrevolution.com
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Caffeine
.... while the scientists recorded blood pressure. The participants then drank a double espresso, waited thirty minutes and rode the bike again. The experiment proved that the men's hearts used less oxygen while pumping more blood after they drank the coffee.(Travis, 360)
In The Buzz About Caffeine, published in Better Homes and Gardens, May 1995, the author believes that caffeine has both good and bad effects one one's health. The article says that caffeine stimulates the brain, this makes you les .....
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California Water Pollution
.... and reproductive harm into actual or potential water sources. There is also the Toxic Pits cleanup act of 1984. This act states that there is to be no discharge of hazardous wastes within an half a mile of a potential drinking water source. This is something being done, but water does travel and seep through ground so what is this act really doing. The clean water act is designed to protect ground water indirectly by protecting the quality of surface water. The standards for the surface water require .....
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Canabis
.... of the psychoactive component of marijuana- tetrahydrocannabinol, commonly known as THC. Users found the relation between the doses and the effects (Grolier Electronic Publishing, 1995). The current atmosphere provides for doctors to suggest synthetic marijuana (THC) in a pure and standardized form by perscription (called Marinol) for the treatment of nausea associated with cancer chemotherapy. Also, although there is no scientific evidence that shows marijuana is beneficial in the treatment of gla .....
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Cannabis
.... most symptoms usually disappear within a few days, sleep disturbances may last longer. Regular use may cause a general loss of interest, motivation, memory and concentration. The user may also show a lack of concern for the future, and have problems with abstract thinking. These effects may be harmful for young people, who are still making choices about the future. Once a person stops using cannabis, symptoms tend to disappear gradually, but problems with concentration and memory can persist (NIH .....
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Cardiovascular Conditioning
.... will increase oxygenation of the blood due to the fact that while exercising deep breathing increases the blood flow to the lungs. Under a well-planned conditioning program conditioning can help to decrease cholesterol and the incidents of deadly heart disease. Individuals who exercise regularly have a lower rate of heart attacks than individuals who do not participate in an exercise program. One of the most important aspects of conditioning for the heart is the warm-up. Warming-up before intense exercis .....
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
.... that:
your symptoms are worse at night
your hands feel weak in the morning
you drop objects more than usual
you have trouble grasping or pinching objects
you may have trouble using your hands for certain tasks, such as buttoning a shirt, writing with a pen, or opening a jar lid
Who gets it?
Carpal tunnel syndrome can occur at any age. Carpal tunnel syndrome from non-work causes usually affects people in their fifties, while from work causes is highest between the ages of twen .....
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Causes Of Schizophrenia
.... also be due to shared non-inherited (environmental') factors,more convincing evidence has come from twin studies, as well as studies of ill individuals who were adopted away before the onset
of illness.
It is fair to say that even such studies do not suggest inherited
factors as the sole causes. A more reasonable explanation is that
there are individuals who have an inherited proneness to illness.
Such individuals may fall ill, if in addition, they are exposed to
noxious factors in the .....
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Chemical Bonding
.... as CaCl (rock salt) are formed in the same way and although they have a different crystalline structure they do possess the same physical properties.
Covalent bonds, as stated earlier, are when the atoms share electrons with each other. Covalent bonds can exist in each of the phases of matter. As a covalent bond is formed energy is released, sometimes violently as in the case of nitro-triodine (2NI3).
Although covalent bond releases energy they do require a lot of energy to be broken apart. A strong .....
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