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- 6761: Artificial Heart Devices
- ... a patient's body. The LAVD has been implanted in more than seven hundred people for up to seventeen months, as they have awaited human heart transplants(Stipp 38). It is difficult to fathom the great scientific ingenuity that was required to develop these devices. However, we must not be blinded from seeing the whole picture. In assuming its role as a boost to humanity, these inventions bring many concerns. The ... life insurance plan, his beneficiaries may consent to the artificial implant since it would greatly improve the risk to the patient's life. The perfection of artificial devices for the heart will definitely have a great impact on society. This can be classified in two major ways: financial problems and population problems. Of course, increased use of artificial heart devices in medicine is going to increase the financial burden on society ...
- 6762: Anorexia And Bulimia
- ... are the family and friends of the victim affected by the diseases? Parents often comment on the seceptions practiced by their sick child. While anorexics will usually deny having a problem, bulimics wilo go to great lengths to conceal the problem. It is a shock for a parent to find evidence of vomitting, of empty boxes of laxitives in a daughter's room. Husbands are devistated to learn the reason their ... deal with the problem. 5. What can families and friends do to help the sufferers? The fisrt step is to get the problem out in the open, but being really senstive about it and taking great care. The person who has the disorders feels shame and guilt and may feel threatened that the secret is out. They might feel angry, and the feelings need to be worked out in a constructive ...
- 6763: The Mind, Music, and Behavior
- ... resulted in an increase in performance, especially in the area of mathematics. Thus, it has been established that there is a link between music and the mind or human behavior. There still, however, remains a great deal of research that needs to be done in order for us to comprehend the why and how. This is a substantial challenge, considering that not much is know about the mysteries of the brain ... people show no signs of altered behavior or any other effects of music. There are even some studies where a majority of the subjects show no known measurable effects of music. Nonetheless there is a great potential for this topic of the music and the mind. If we understand how human beings are effected by music, we can alter how human beings learn and behave, as simply as by turning on ...
- 6764: Humans Soon to be Extinct... Say it ain't so!!
- ... s large size made it impossible for them to even make an attempt to recover from this sudden increase in heat. (McLean 1995) Whereas the thermal inertia contained in their bodies would have been a great benefit in the cooler climate, their small surface to volume ratios were huge disadvantages in the warming and caused the dinosaur's bodies to essentially overheat. (p.1) A smaller size, like that of the ... a worldwide cooling effect. (Volcanoes and Climate,96) The amount and extent of this cooling action is dependent on the eruption size and it's latitude. (Nasa, 1996) If it occurs in a place of great winds and air currents, then it will spread differently than one not in an air current would have on the world and have a different amount of a cooling or heating effect. (p.2) The ...
- 6765: Psychology: Dreams and Dreaming
- ... dreams come in the service of wholeness and health. If you find an interpretation that does not fit this, perhaps you need to change methods of interpretation. Dream interpretations that lead you toward self-criticism, depression or despair are simply wrong and if these conditions persist you may wish to seek help from others. Finally, there is no such thing as a dream with one meaning. If you feel stuck on ... different from other people, and some overly rejected society's norms. They were all very open and vulnerable, he said, beneficial to their careers. But most had had stormy adolescence sometimes followed by bouts with depression, alcohol and suicide attempts. Hartmann concluded that people who had frequent nightmares possessed a poor sense of their own identities and find it hard to separate fantasy from reality. Some have borderline or potentially psychotic ...
- 6766: Alzheimer's Disease: "Where has Yesterday Gone"
- ... Gone" Memory loss, like old age is a condition which mankind has always reluctantly recognized and always with resignation. Memory loses are sometimes trivial and meaningless and go unrecognized. However, when these loses are so great that a person does not know who or where they are the concerns are quite grave. Although it is realize that Alzheimer's disease destroys the brain memory function, many do not realize precisely how ... clinical trails about 17% were improved with memories. . ." and " 40% stayed the same no change and about 20% had been "withdrawn" with adverse reaction (Cognex 4)." In conclusion, when is memory loss, whether it is great or small, it takes away the ability to recreate or reproduce to some extent our emotions, past experiences, thoughts and actions that we take for granted. It gives us far more then we give it ...
- 6767: The History, Use, and Effectiveness of Medicinal Drugs
- ... they could include mild drowsiness, allergic reactions, skin rash, hives, nasal discharge, stomach irritation, heart burn, nausea, vomiting, constipation and in extreme cases erosion of the stomach lining, activation of a peptic ulcer, bone marrow depression, hepatitis, and kidney damage. Overdosing on this drug produces side effects such as stomach distress, nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, sweating, stupor, deep and rapid breathing, twitching, and convolutions. Aspirin was the first non ... which is a sunburnlike eruption that breaks out where the skin is exposed to sunlight. Later symptoms are a red and swollen tongue, diarrhea, mental confusion, irritability, and, when the central nervous system is affected, depression and mental disturbances. The best sources of niacin are liver, poultry, meat, canned tuna and salmon, whole grain and enriched cereals, dried beans and peas, and nuts. The body also makes niacin from the amino ...
- 6768: Lucid Dreaming: Asleep and Aware
- ... over and win. A business man who has to give a speech the next morning can practice his speech in his dreams in front of a dream audience. The possibilities are endless (Colt 49). Many great leaders have been influenced by their dreams. Samuel Coleridge claims that he wrote the great poem "Kubla Kahn" in a dream. Friedrich Kekule, the discoverer of the molecular structure of benzene, said it came to him in a dream (Horgan 50). Study of lucid dreams continues today mostly at the ...
- 6769: The Genetics of Violence
- ... child testing programs, drug manufacturers, civil rights activists, lawyers, and anxious citizens await the resulting testimony of the scientists. The social implications of the genetic search for aggressive tendency is seen by some as a great step forward, by others as a dangerous power with the ability to give birth to another Holocaust, and by still others as racist. At one time, it was believed that ones character could be ... a soft-spoken legal scholar, was shouting at the top of his lungs that, "There are a hell of a lot of people attending this conference who think the dangers of genetic research are as great in the long term as the dangers of atomic energy!" Many critics argued that the genetic studies are worse than inconclusive; they are racist and dangerous as they generally fail to recognize social issues. William ...
- 6770: The Effects of Altitude On Human Physiology
- ... partial pressure refers to the contribution of each gas to the entire pressure of the atmosphere. The average pressure of the atmosphere at sea level is approximately 760 mmHg. This means that the pressure is great enough to support a column of mercury (Hg) 760 mm high. To figure the partial pressure of oxygen you start with the percentage of oxygen present in the atmosphere which is about 20%. Thus oxygen ... efficient level. Without the presence of oxygen the pathway for energy production must proceed anaerobically. Anaerobic respiration sometimes called lactic acid fermentation produces significantly less ATP (2 instead of 36/38) and due to this great inefficiency will quickly exhaust the available supply of glucose. Thus the anaerobic pathway is not a permanent solution for the provision of energy to the body in the absence of sufficient oxygen. The supply of ...
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