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- 4921: Psychoanalysis
- ... painful misunderstandings or outright failures in the child's relationship to his or her parents. Sometimes parents lack the appropriate and attuned empathic understanding that children need. Sometimes severe physical or mental illness or the death of a parent or sibling causes serious psychic wounds. Consequently, even in adults, there remain ever-present though usually unconscious fears that the early hurtful experiences will now be repeated again with others. Transference is ... person a sense of self and of well-being. Any experience with objects, including persons, that evoke and strengthen the self are "self-object" experiences and are needed by every human being from birth to death in order to sustain a cohesive self. Absence of or faulty self-object experiences cause a loss of cohesion with attendant fragmentation of the self. RESEARCH In addition to their clinical application, psychoanalytic theories have ...
- 4922: The Effects of Altitude On Human Physiology
- ... lungs. The fluid in the lungs interferes with effective oxygen exchange. As the condition becomes more severe, the level of oxygen in the bloodstream decreases, and this can lead to cyanosis, impaired cerebral function, and death. Symptoms include shortness of breath even at rest, tightness in the chest, marked fatigue, a feeling of impending suffocation at night, weakness, and a persistent productive cough bringing up white, watery, or frothy fluid (University ... of coordination (ataxia), weakness, and decreasing levels of consciousness including, disorientation, loss of memory, hallucinations, psychotic behavior, and coma. It generally occurs after a week or more at high altitude. Severe instances can lead to death if not treated quickly. Immediate descent is a necessary life-saving measure (2,000 - 4,000 feet). Anyone suffering from HACE must be evacuated to a medical facility for proper follow-up treatment. CONCLUSION The ...
- 4923: The Ebola Virus
- ... second also occurred in 1976, but in a nearby country, Sudan, Africa where 150 additional victims out of 250 cases died. In total, there were 340 deaths out of the 568 who were infected, a death rate of almost 60%. A smaller outbreak arose in 1979, also in Sudan. There were only 34 cases and 22 fatalities. Tiny outbreaks have occurred periodically in Africa up until 1995. In 1995, after 16 ... emerged and devastated Africa once again. This time it was in Kikwit, Zaire. The first patient was discovered on January the 6th and the outbreak was officially over on August the 24th (see chart for death distribution of each month during its peak - 212 deaths). There was a total of 315 cases and 244 deaths, a 77% fatality rate. THE ANIMAL RESOVOIR The animal species which carries the Ebola virus has ...
- 4924: Mononucleosis
- ... mono. It is not highly contagious. The incubation period is thought to be about 30 to 40 days. In about two/thirds of the patients the spleen is enlarged. The illness is mild to moderate, death is rare, but in some cases a patient may die of rupturing the spleen. A rash consisting of small hemorrhages or resembling measles or scarlet fever sometimes appears. Also, pneumonia occurs in about 2 percent of the infected patients. Although, involvement of the liver occurs almost in all the patients, but severe disease of the liver is rare. Encephalitis, meningitis, or peripheral neuritis occurs uncommonly. Death has followed encephalitis. While having mono, the heart is rarely affected. During the illness antibodies develop. One way to detect this is by the Paul Bunnell test. The diagnosis is made by studying the blood ...
- 4925: Lucid Dreaming
- ... and are free to float or fly about. They feel as if they are perceiving the physical world from a location outside of their physical body. The OBE has also been linked with the Near-Death Experience (or NDE) wherein a person who is at the brink of death has an OBE. The NDE, the OBE, and lucid dreaming all have the common element of being separated from the physical body. All include the sensation of flying combined with a feeling of freedom. In ...
- 4926: Leukemia
- ... as a result of the radiation from the bomb. At this time Sadako was only a twelve year old little girl and she died of Leukemia. Everyday Sadako grew weaker and weaker thinking about her death and the day finally came. Sadako died on October 25, 1955. Sadako was very much loved by all of her classmates. At the time of death, her classmates folded 356 paper cranes to be buried with her. This is a symbol in Jpan of thoughtfulness. In summary to what I have learned about Leukemia it is a very painful disease. The ...
- 4927: Ebola
- ... such a wonderful thing. The reason this was so celebrated was because meat is rare in that village. Anyone who helped clean or cook the animal became ill with the deadly ebola virus. The final death count was 16 people. Villagers have been warned not to eat any animals that they find already dead and to be careful not to eat any sick animals that they may encounter. Scientists now believe ... the skin becomes blotchy and bruises appear. The surfaceveins and arteries erode. Organs liquify and blood flows from every opening in the body including the eyes and ears(17). This is followed by a painful death that usually occurs within threeweeks(18). There are three known strains of The virus. Ebola Zaire,ebola Sudan, and ebola Reston. Ebola Zaire is the most lethal ofthe three followed by ebola Sudan and then ...
- 4928: Faulkners Image Of Women
- ... was to get ready to stay dead a long time"(As I Lay Dying 56). Faulkner mentioned no love or emotional understanding, but mere acceptance, maybe not even an acceptance but a long wait for death. Even at death, Addie tried to once more to find attention, something she desperately sought for during her lifetime. The journey was her revenge on her husband. "I realized that I had been tricked by words older than ...
- 4929: Discovering Sicke Cell Anemia
- ... threatening, depending on where it occurs. One of the most severe places for a clot to occur in is the brain. It could lead to a stroke which could turn into paralysis or even worse, death. Sometimes a blood transfusion is required every three to four weeks to avoid recurrence of clots in the brain. When blood capillaries are clogged, it can lead to many types of problems, depending upon where the blockage occurs. The outcome of the blockages may lead to problems such as kidney infections, death and decay of tissues, intense pain in chest, arms and legs, disease of the retina of the eye, slow healing sores or ulcers, and even gallstones. When the hemoglobin is low, it is manifested by ...
- 4930: Bubonic Plague
- ... is a vaccine that lasts 6 months. You can use the preferred vaccine Streptomycin, or gentamicin, teracyclines, or chloramphenicol are all good substitutes. The treatment must start within 15 hours of the first symptom of death is inevitable. Some special characteristics of this disease are you can be any age to contract it, it is most common is unsanitary condition, or where there are an abundance of rodents and if untreated death will occur within 3 days. The most amazing fact about this disease is that it has killed over 75 million people over the centuries.
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