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- 1281: Clinical Chemistry Tests In Medicine
- ... the release of calcium into the blood stream from the bones. Hyperparathyroidism, caused by tumors of the parathyroid, causes the bones to lose too much calcium and become soft and fragile. Calcitonin produces a hypocalcemic effect by inhibiting the effect of parathyroid hormone and preventing calcium from leaving bones. Vitamin D stimulates calcium and phosphate absorption in the small intestine and increases calcium and phosphate utilization from bone. Hypercalcemia may be caused by abnormal calcium ...
- 1282: Cancer
- ... develop. This shows that the physical structure causes the cancer, other than the chemical composition. Even though it is unknown why cancer happens in some people and not in others heredity seems to have an effect in some forms of cancer. Because of this, family history may be significant in predicting and diagnosing cancer. Prevention is the best way to avoid cancer. Since the majority of cancer is related to the ... third way to treat cancer is chemotherapy, which is treatment by chemical agents. The chance of complete cure is not common but it is usually used to increase the life of the carrier. The desired effect of treatment in cancer patients is remission, where the cancer is gone from your body and if it does not return within 5 years it is considered cured. Right now the government is spending huge ...
- 1283: Penalty Of Death-Analysis
- ... Capital punishment] is useless, for it does not deter others from the same crime". -Attacks this by saying that people who state this wrongly conclude that this is the only reason why it is in effect -States that this is only one of at least a half dozen reasons why it is in effect. -Then reaches main argument: why the death penalty is effective -Saying it is commonly called revenge, he borrows a better word from Aristotle
catharsis -The meaning is stated in paragraph 3 as "a salubrious discharge ...
- 1284: Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- ... One cause of resistance could be drug abuse. There are people who believe that when they get sick, antibiotics are the answer. The more times you use a drug, the more it will decrease the effect it has on you. That is because the bacteria has found a way to avoid the effects of that antibiotic. Another cause of resistance is the improper use of drugs. When patients feel that the ... completely finished. If it is not, then this will just give the bacteria some time to find a way to avoid the effects of the drug. One antibiotic that will always have a long lasting effect in history is penicillin. This was the first antibiotic ever to be discovered. Alexander Fleming was the person responsible for the discovery in 1928. In his laboratory, he noticed that in some of his bacteria ...
- 1285: Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
- ... the people on the 1st of June, to perform the ceremonies of the day, & to address to them discourses suited to the occasion. The people met generally, with anxiety & alarm in their countenances, and the effect of the day thro' the whole colony was like a shock of electricity, arousing every man & placing him erect & solidly on his centre. They chose universally delegates for the convention. Being elected one for my ... was wise & proper now, of deferring to take any capital step till the voice of the people drove us into it: That they were our power, & without them our declarations could not be carried into effect; That the people of the middle colonies (Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylva, the Jerseys & N. York) were not yet ripe for bidding adieu to British connection, but that they were fast ripening & in a short time would ...
- 1286: Jimmy Carter: The 39th President of the United States
- ... problems were with Congress, which was less susceptible to party discipline and presidentail direction than in the years before the Vietnam War and Watergate. He had little politcal credit with senators and representatives, having in effect run against them during his presidential campaign. His inexperienced assistants on Capitol Ill failed lto confer adequately with congressional leaders. Carter's attempt to establish new national energy policies languished through two congressional sessions and ... office because of his foreign affair problems, without a big "thank you." Jimmy's values were what got him to office, and he kept his values, not letting other people change him or have an effect on him. He still shows his values today with all of his environmental conservation work and his peace keeping efforts. It would be wrong to say Jimmy was one of our worst presidents, even though ...
- 1287: Thomas Jefferson
- ... the system of entail, thus allowing all property in the State to be held in fee simple, and by the abolishment of the connection between church and state. The latter required years in order to effect complete success, but it was reached at last. How forceful were many of the expressions he employed during that contest, such as: "Compulsion makes hypocrites, not converts;" "Truth stands by itself; error alone needs the ... part in the compact. France, with that idiotic blindness which ruled her in those fearful days, maintained a protective system which prevented America from sending cheap food to starving people, nor was Jefferson able to effect more than a slight change in the pernicious law. One thing done by him made him popular with the masses. His "Notes on Virginia" was published both in French and English. Like everything that emanated ...
- 1288: Paradise Lost
- ... find its foundations in the colonization explorations and the domestic unrest caused by the civil wars. The combination of the two contextually, both in spirituality, imagery and definitions of time and space; have the unique effect of creating a devout religious protagonist's perceptions of his environment and its history, encompassed in as often was the case one work of art, as a testimony to the period and the Church of ... find its foundations in the colonization explorations and the domestic unrest caused by the civil wars. The combination of the two contextually, both in spirituality, imagery and definitions of time and space; have the unique effect of creating a devout religious protagonist's perceptions of his environment and its history, encompassed in as often was the case one work of art, as a testimony to the period and the Church of ...
- 1289: Eutahania And Suicide In America
- ... ruled valid, but on September 9, 1996 the Commonwealth Parliament of Australia the Euthanasia Laws Bill 1996, designed to repeal the assisted suicide laws of the regional territories of Australia. The bill passed and took effect on March 25, 1997 giving the Federal Parliament the power to over rule the laws of its Territories, although it cannot over rule state laws. In the United States in the 1990\\'s, Jack Kevorkian ... the less likely they are to favor suicide, abortion, or euthanasia. Yeuh-Ting Lee et al. (1996) hypothesized based on cross cultural studies of euthanasia and abortion that attitudes toward euthanasia and abortion were the effect of culture ( America and China) and type of death (infanticide and geronticide). Yeuh-Ting Lee et al. (1996) found that students from the American culture were less likely to favor infanticide than those from Chinese ...
- 1290: English Only
- ... ALCU). Many people whom support the English Only movement believes that multilingualism is too costly and inefficient for the government to operate in. Making English as an official language will have little day-to-day effect on the population and their lifestyles or private lives. They believe that declaring English as the official language is the fairest way to handle over 300 languages spoken in the U.S. (LIA). Many people ... a Cantonese-speaking class (USE). Wasted funds have gone into the support of bilingual education with the schools being inefficient at teaching English. Studies have shown that these bilingual education schools have little or no effect. At the very least, federal and state bilingual education laws must be reformed to ensure that parents can easily remove their children from bilingual education programs. Because in America, a child shouldn t be forced ...
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