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- 4391: An Attempt At Understanding Dreams
- ... at the time - did go to Santa Barbara for the week-end (without taking his fiancee's precious approval from Cairo!). Off the subject, Mahmoud and I once decided to go to Alexandria for a day, again without him telling her, and the tire exploded on the way and we almost died! I hope it was just a bad coincidence and not her magic powers. By the way, Mahmoud is very ... inside of me that reflect my fears and desires and somehow try to predict my future by setting up a certain scenario that takes place in my dreams. My mother keeps dreaming up to this day that she is sitting in the classroom taking an exam she is not prepared for, and that she fails it. Obviously my mother finished school some time ago (and she never failed exams) but the ... should concentrate hard right after waking up. Sometimes keeping a pencil and paper handy helps because you can write down the dream upon waking up. Some times people suddenly remember their dreams later in the day, without even thinking about it. I managed to get some more information about REM sleep from Rita Atkinson's Introduction To Psychology. It says in the book that there is a period of REM ...
- 4392: Anabolic Steroids
- ... once. Because of this, oral steroids put a tremendous strain on the liver. For example, if a user takes 200 mg of an oral steroid, the liver must destroy the entire 200 mg in one day (Schwarzenegger, 724). Taking oral steroids may also lead to blood sugar problems. Injectable steroids are chemically constructed to have longer life spans. 200 mg of an injectable is constructed to last 17 days, meaning that the body will breakdown only 12 mg per day, which is much easier on the body (Schwarzenegger, 724). Injectable steroids bypass the liver and go directly into the bloodstream, and therefore, they are faster acting. Another drawback to taking steroids by injection, many users ... the thigh or buttocks. The deeper the depth of the needle, the less of the steroid that leaks through the skin. "Sometimes one of the guys will inject in one side of his butt one day and the other the next. Then, we all laugh at him because he can barely sit down for he next three days," said a 19 year old teenager from Arizona (Schrof, 57). Not all ...
- 4393: Chinese Medicine
- ... level of social stability that included the ability to treat disease of emotional, physical, and spiritual origins. Although a belief in spirits as the cause of disease has remained in China even to the present day, the view that the body obeyed a natural order struck a chord in the intellectual elite of ancient China. It was this elite class that refined and developed these ideas over many centuries.(1) The ... Chinese developed a medicine of systematic correspondences in which yin-yang and five-phase theory provided a good foundation for understanding the body. These have been the key elements of Chinese medicine to the present day.(12) The five phases: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water are the main factors in human life: wood for construction; fire for warmth; metal for tools; the earth that produces the crops necessary to our ... a binary system of correspondence that is logically matching to the five phases. All yin phenomena are the same in nature and relate to their yang opposites in like fashion. Examples of this would be day is to night as heat is to cold, as summer is to winter, as high is to low, as activity is to rest.(15) The ideas of yin and yang became universally applicable categories ...
- 4394: Work Stress
- ... stress have continued to rise dramatically in organizations across North America. The eighties saw employees stressing out from working in a rapidly growing economy. During the nineties, beginning from the recession of 1992 till present day, employees are stressed by their own job insecurities in the face of massive downsizing and restructuring of organizations in order to be competitive on the global stage. Work stress is a very extensive topic ranging ... Stress at work: Does it concern you?. Shankill, Ireland: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living & Working Conditions. Robbins, S. (1996). Organizational behaviour: concepts. controversies, applications. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc. Smither, R. D. (1988). The psychology of work and human performance. New York: Harper & Row.
- 4395: Therapeutic Touch : Its Effectiveness On Surgical Incision Site Pain
- ... treatment in a clinical setting is a growing trend all over the world today. Therapeutic touch was derived from many ancient healing arts. In its contemporary form, therapeutic touch was developed by Dolores Krieger, Ph.D., RN., and her mentor, Dora Kinz, in the early 1970s. Research has shown that therapeutic touch is effective in promoting relaxation and reducing anxiety; changing the patients perception of pain; and in restoring the body ... of hospitalized children. Pediatric Nursing, 16, (5), 483-485. Mathews, K.M., RN, MN, SCM, (1991). Mothers' satisfaction with their neonates' breast feeding behaviors. Journal of Gynecological and Neonatal Nursing, 20, (1), 48-55. Polit, D.F., PhD, Hungler, B.P., RN,PhD, (1993). Essentials of nursing research methods, appraisal, and utilization (3rd ed.). Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott company. Publication manual of the american psychological association (6th ed.). (1995). Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association. Quinn, J.F., RN, PhD, FAAN, Strelkauskas, A.J., PhD, (1993). Psychoimmunologic effects of therapeutic touch on practitioners and recently bereaved recipients: A pilot study. Advances in Nursing Science, 15, ( ...
- 4396: The Heart
- The Heart Introduction You need your heart for all your body needs. It pumps about 2000 gallons of blood a day. It takes about 20 seconds for blood to reach every cell in the body. An artery carries blood out from the heart. A vein carries blood back to the heart. An average adult heart weighs ... need. The typical heart rate is 72 beats per minute. Each beat gives out 2-3 ounces of blood pumped into the arterial system. At this heart rate it beats about 104,000 times a day. The Superior and Inferior are the biggest veins in the body. The Superior is really the biggest. These veins have a lot of carbon dioxide and have oxygen-poor blood. The aorta is the biggest ... filled up with cholesterol, scar tissue, or calcium. Other problems can happen also. For instance disorders for the heart valves or for the heart muscle and pericardium. Conclusion The heart is something you need every day you can't live with out it. Exercise, eat a balanced diet, and always have checkups. People don't think a checkup will really do anything, but believe it because it will. You might ...
- 4397: Stress
- ... average person would be on the job 60 hours a week." Another factor that increases stress is technological advancements. With all the new technology one is always connected to work and accessible 24 hours a day 7 days a week. According to Business Week, it is now possible, and thus increasingly expected, for employees to be accessible and productive any hour, any day. At a workplace, one observes several sales people working long hours, claiming it is due to under staffing. Employees reach a point of diminishing returns. The more hours they work, the less productive they are ... percent of employees often or very often feel burned out or stressed by their jobs, 27 percent feel emotionally drained from their work, and 42 percent feel used up at the end of the work day (Hellmich, 1994). Balancing work pressures and family responsibilities leaves many workers feeling burned out. Researchers at Harvard found that as stress increases, performance and efficiency do also. However, if stress continues to increase, the ...
- 4398: Observation of the Early Childhood
- ... beam. Karligh ran up the slide with a considerable amount of effort. She quickly crawled through the tunnel and crossed the shaky bridge with little effort. She crossed the balance beam more quickly than I'd seen any child do that whole day. Bethany climbed up the slide in a time that was a bit quicker than Karligh's. The crawling through the tunnel was done quickly and she was first stalled on the shaky bridge. She managed ...
- 4399: Lucid Dreams: The First Virtual Reality
- ... not just an awareness. REFERENCES 1. LaBerge, S.(1985). Lucid dreaming. Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher. 2. LaBerge, S. & Rheingold, H. (1990). Exploring the world of lucid dreaming. New York: Ballantine. 3. Llinas, R. & Pare, D. (1991). Of dreaming and wakefulness. Neuroscience. 4. Watson, J. (1928). The ways of behaviorism. New York: Harper. 5. LaBerge, S., Kahan, T. & Levitan, L. (1995). Cognition in dreaming and waking. Sleep Research, 24A, 239. 6. LaBerge, S. (1990). Lucid dreaming: Psychophysiological studies of consciousness during REM sleep. In R.R. Bootsen, J.F. Kihlstrom, & D.L. Schacter (Eds.), Sleep and Cognition. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association (pp. 109-126).
- 4400: The Ear and Hearing Loss
- ... of fact, sometimes they use regular classroom's but they provide special teaching assistants to help individual student's. The next step away from a normal classroom is the special schools. This may be a day school or a residential institution. Day schools are organized for one or more typed of handicap. Such schools also exist in all parts of the world. There are, for example schools for the blind, deaf, and mentally retarded in nearly every state in the US. For children who cannot obtain the schooling they require in their own communities, there are residential schools with dormitories and dining halls that enroll children on a 24 hour a day basis. These schools are designed to serve children who do not have access to normal services or whose handicap makes it difficult to for them to adapt to a regular school. Residential schools are ...
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