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- 4471: Lighting Advancments
- ... to many people. People depend on these lights to be on for long periods of time and to provide a good deal of light. Previously many business and individuals used quartz lights. They provided a great deal of light but cost a great deal of money to run. For large areas, high-pressure sodium lights are now being used. These lights use one fifteenth of the power and provide the same amount of light. Homes can now replace ...
- 4472: Laziness
- ... exhibits this correlation is HLA-Cw6. Cw6 gives a relative risk of twenty for developing psoriasis, and eighty-five percent of Type I sufferers are positive for this HLA haplotype. The correlation isn't as great for Type II sufferers - fifteen percent - but is still significant. There is a lesser association with other HLA haplotypes as well, notably A1, B13, B17, B27, B37, DR7, but some of these may be due ... may be mediated by a genetic defect affecting keratinocytes. Langerhans cells are under the influence of cytokines released by keratinocytes. The Langerhans cells in the dermis and epidermis are able to process protein antigens with great efficiency, but are only able to present the antigens to high affinity memory T cells. Langerhans cells found in nodal regions do not have this high efficiency of protein processing, but have the ability to ...
- 4473: Isaac Newton
- Isaac Newton, (also known as Sir Isaac Newton), is known as a great scientist by many people. He was born on December 25 in the year 1642 in Woolsthorpe, England. His father died before he was born and left his family without much money. Isaacs mother soon remarried ... that white light was composed of all the colors. During this time he also formulated the corpuscular theory of light, which states that light is made up of tiny particles, also known as corpuscles. Another great discovery that he came up with was gravity. The general law of gravity arose from Newton's question: what keeps the moon in it's regular path around the earth? He concluded that only the ...
- 4474: Is There Life On Mars
- ... hold the belief that the Universe was formed by various gases combining and creating a "big bang" which, in turn, formed the planets. Creationists argue that this is too random an event, and on to great a scale to form all the microscopic complexities of organisms, and the great expanses of the Universe. Creationists believe that God (or some form of deity) Created the Universe by divine power, and that the above mentioned complexities could only be achieved by a Supreme Being. The age ...
- 4475: Is There A Light At The End Of The Tunnel
- ... This is true, but most of them are waiting until the end of the year to do this. If everyone goes to the bank simultaneously to remove their money, then they will cause an automatic depression. The banks do not have all of the money in the bank at the times that people will want their money. If everyone takes their money out of the banks at the same time, then all the money that is in the government, overseas, and in stocks will be taken away at such a rapid pace that it will cause a depression. There are ways to avoid this problem, but people must begin to prepare for it and stop worrying about it. People are not doing enough to prepare for the problems of Y2K, but they are ...
- 4476: Internet The Advantages And Disadvantages
- ... The race for discovery of such technology raged between the Soviet Union and The United States of America. Both countries wanted control of the possibly powerful tool. Then in 1968, The National Physical Laboratory in Great Britain set up the first test network, which prompted the Pentagon s ARPA to fund a larger project in the USA. (Sterling n. page) However the race was not limited to just nations but also ... person is not targeted by hackers they are in danger of fraud and con-artists. Stolen credit card numbers have been rumored to be a major problem. The chances of it happening are not as great as the media makes it to be, but nevertheless it is a problem. The criminals easily get away with such a crime. They get the number of a credit card and charge ridiculous bills, but ...
- 4477: Internet Security
- ... bug was known publicly, there was a patch (repair) available for it within a matter of hours. Microsoft may have an extensive track record of bugs and backdoors in their programs, but they have a great history of quick repairs as well. Netscape Corporation, Microsoft's chief competitor in the "Browser Wars," has a much worse track record for repairing their glitches. When a bug was found recently in Netscape's ... against it, and until recently, everyone was waiting for the Supreme Court to make a ruling on the CDA. When the Supreme Court finally made the ruling earlier this summer, the "Net-izens" breathed a great sigh of relief. The Supreme Court has ruled that the CDA was against the First Amendment, because the Internet is a form of speech. In early July of this year, twenty-six European countries made ...
- 4478: Human Genome Project 2
- ... use of preventing inherent diseases. However, as studies continue to progress, increased opportunities arise for genetically altering the unborn. You are now able to choose the sex of you child before they are born with great accuracy. What is on the horizon now, is the possibility of designing your child to be perfect . Over the years, there has been heated, ethical controversy on each of these issues, especially designer babies. How ... only would go against the promise the pioneers had made, but also, as biophysicist Gregory Stock said, life would enter a new phase, one which we seize control of our own evolution. There was obviously great hesitation as to whether or not gene therapy should be used in a way that could be detrimental to our evolution, but with the confined use towards inherent, fatal diseases there was more acceptance. What ...
- 4479: Human Cloning
- ... was rejected by the patients body we could simply make another one to suit the patient. This would mean fewer complications, little or no waiting lists and almost no deaths because of organ shortages. Another great reason to clone human cells is that it has the potential to cure diseases. As of now we have not been able to solve the problems in many of the worlds deadliest diseases such as ... death. Human cloning is beneficial to our existence on earth. It can help solve the problem of organ limitation, cure diseases and take a step toward immortality. Overall the whole issue of cloning is a great idea and in my opinion has only positive side effects. Cloning has the power to answer many medical questions, and the power to improve the quality of life.
- 4480: Handling Stress
- ... it is we then who choose our own stressors. Selye noted that with the absence of stress there is death. Current researchers are also discovering that too little stress may be a major cause of depression or boredom. It is therefore up to us to choose the best Handling Stress # stressors and the optimal level of stress. Since we have now begun to understand the definition of stress as well as ... and intestines causing and ulcer. Severe stress, however, can cause a condition called posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This condition is usually caused when one has endured extreme stress causing them to feel prolonged anxiety and depression. Though I have never heard of university students getting posttraumatic stress disorder I know of afew people around my age who have obtained and ulcer, myself for one. These are just two things that stress ...
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