Cirrhosis Of The Liver
.... result is scarring of the liver.
The most common type of cirrhosis is known as Laënnec's cirrhosis. Its primary causes are excessive and chronic alcohol consumption and malnutrition. The relationship between alcohol and cirrhosis is unquestioned, but the mechanism of injury remains unknown. Besides cirrhosis, the affected person may show jaundice, pneumonia, inflammation of the pancreas, or delirium. There is usually an increase in liver fat with this disease during the early stages; later there is .....
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Cisc And Risc Processor Technologies
.... RISC. Describe the characteristics of RISC technology. And also point the advantages and disadvantages of using this technology.
At the end of this report you will also be able to describe the major differences between a CISC instruction set and a RISC instruction set and list some key advantages and disadvantages of RISC as compared to CISC
2. Introduction
Speeding up a computer system involves many different strategies. By speeding up the input and output devices in different peri .....
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Computer Programming
.... Programmers are often categorized as technicians because of the work they do. Many programmers are involved in updating, repairing, modifying and expanding existing programs. They are often grouped into two types. These two types are Applications programmers and Systems programmers. Applications programmers usually are oriented towards business, engineering, or science. They write software to handle specific jobs within an organization such as a program used in a place of business were a lot of .....
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Computers That Mimic The Human Mind
.... function in today’s society. Humans then take all of this information and solve problems logically. This is where things get complex. There are expert systems that can solve complex problems that humans train their whole lives for. In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated the world champion in a game of chess(Karlgaard, p43). Expert systems design buildings, configure airplanes, and diagnose breathing problems. NASA’s Deep Space One probe left with software that lets the probe diagnose problems and fix itse .....
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Computers-how They Affect Our Lives
.... read information on cards without human intervention. Since the population of the US was increasing so fast, the computer was an essential tool in tabulating the totals.
These advantages were noted by commercial industries and soon led to the development of improved punch-card business-machine systems by International Business Machines (IBM), Remington-Rand, Burroughs, and other corporations. By modern standards the punched-card machines were slow, typically processing from 50 to 25 .....
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Continental Drift
.... theory of Plate Tectonics has evolved from and replaced Wegener's original thesis.
Plate Tectonics is the theory that deals with the structure, history, and dynamics of the earth's crust. The earth's crust is formed of 13 continental plates. The boundaries of the zones are where tectonic activities occur, and where earthquakes and volcanic eruptions tend to happen. The plate tectonics theory was thought up in the 1960s and 1970s, with ideas taken from Wegener’s earlier thoughts. Earlier, Wegener a .....
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Coral
.... of man. Silt from deforested lands and pollution from crowded coastlines choke them, and overuse by coal miners, fisheries, and even tourists deplete and destroy coral reefs. There are many more factors which add to the destruction of the coral reefs, which if not stopped it will destroy all coral reefs.
Corals are animals, not plants, sunlight is the key to their survival. They need it to power the millions of microscopic algae, called zooxanthellae, that live in their tissues. The algae .....
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Cryogenic
.... with liquid nitrogen about once a week; excess air and gases are pumped out of the unit by a vacuum, weekly or monthly, to optimize insulation.
The body will remain there for decades or centuries. "The preservation process, few are convinced that the body can ever be reanimated. Most cryobiologists take the view that it is impossible to reanimate someone who has been cryonically frozen. As one scientist comments: believing cryonics could reanimate somebody who has been frozen is like believing you ca .....
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Cryogenics And The Future
.... liquid oxygen in his lab using a process known as adiabatic expansion, which is a "thermodynamic process in which the temperature of a gas is expanded without adding or extracting heat from the gas or the surrounding system"(Vance 26). At the same time Pictet used the "Joule-Thompson Effect," a thermodynamic process that states that the "temperature of a fluid is reduced in a process involving expansion below a certain temperature and pressure"(McClintock 4). After Cailletet and Pictet, a third metho .....
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Cystic Fibrosis
.... Moran, Moss, Wine, Flotte, Gardner, 998; Shapiro, 1991; Drake, 1995). In children and adults with CF, a mistake in a single gene disables a type of protein that functions as an ion channel. This molecule regulates the balance of salts in a special type of cell that lines many of the body's glands (Hopkin, 1998). All people with genetic disorders have inherited the defective genes from their parents, who in turn had inherited them from their parents, and so on, stretching back many generations. Notice F .....
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Caffeine 2
.... coffee help to improve alertness and concentration during night shift hours 3. These findings have been further endorsed by Smith et al 4 who conducted a study in 1993 to examine the effects of coffee on daytime and night-time performance and alertness. The results clearly demonstrated that caffeinated coffee had a beneficial effect on alertness and improved performance in a variety of tasks in both day and night sessions. These effects are especially beneficial to night shift workers as it is known that m .....
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Calories
.... The calories referred to by the food and Drug Administration are actually kilocalories. That is one thousand times greater than those Mr. Black discovered. When Americans sit down to breakfast and eat a serving of Frosted Flakes, they are not ingesting one hundred sixty calories but one hundred sixty THOUSAND calories. This is enough heat to boil nearly seven hundred fifty grams of water.
One hundred sixty thousand calories may seem an exorbitant amount to ingest in one sitting until one considers .....
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Cannabis Sativa
.... in many parts of the world. Containing 419 chemicals, this plant has the ability to intoxicate its users, primarily because of the psychoactive mind altering ingredients called Delta - 9 - Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. It is the THC content found at various concentration in different parts of the plant, which determines the potency.
The THC content is controlled by plant strain, climate, soil conditions, and harvesting, in 1975, the average confiscated sample of marijuana contained 0.4 perc .....
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Carbohydrates
.... and amylopectin. Both consist of glucose units linked together. Glycogen is the principal storage form for sugar in higher animals. Glycogen has a structure similar to that of amylopectin except that it is more highly branched. The principal structural molecule in plants is cellulose. Cellulose is a polymer composed of monomers of glucose, just as starch and glycogen are.
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Cellular Metabolism And Fermentation
.... pathways: lactic acid fermentation, alcohol fermentation, or cellular (anaerobic) respiration. Humans cannot ferment alcohol in their own bodies, we lack the genetic information to do so. These biochemical pathways, with their myriad reactions catalyzed by reaction-specific enzymes all under genetic control, are extremely complex. We will only skim the surface at this time and in this course.
Alcohol fermentation is the formation of alcohol from sugar. Yeast, when under anaerobic conditions, convert .....
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