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- 361: The Issue of Premarital Sex
- ... long-term relationship built upon love. However, it can also lead to premature bonding that can have negative effects on both parties. Three effects of premature bonding are physical in nature, and may have an effect on each person's life. One is pregnancy. God created sex so that the mutual love of two people may also lead to the creation of a new individual. The increase of premarital sex has led to a significant increase in unwanted pregnancies, especially among teenagers. This increase in the premarital pregnancy rate has positive correlation with the increase in the second effect, abortions, which destroys the life of the developing fetus as well as traumatizing the mother and/or the father. The third effect is possible transmission of an STD, which do effect the life and the future relationships of an individual. Four other effects of premature bonding are emotional in nature. The feelings of being in love ...
- 362: Influencing Others in Business Environments
- ... thus their likelihood of being able to influence them into buying an idea or product. Seating arrangements can affect ones ability to influence others. Seating arrangements that are closer to one another have a greater effect and lead to a less hostile environment than when people are seated opposite of one another (Sommer, 1967). Sommer found that when a relationship is of a competitive nature (i.e. bargaining situations such as ... environment discourage these processes (Mehrabian, 1971). Voice and Tone Voices have a significant persuasive affect. A study by Mehrabian and Williams (1969) suggested that there are four nonverbal cues of voice that have a persuasive effect. These are: having a louder amplitude, having a greater intonation, having greater fluency in speech, and having a faster tempo during speaking. Another study showed that when one has a louder and more fluent voice ... theories; whereas, the male professor was only seen persuasive with evidence (Norman, 1976). All of these studies suggest that the persuasive affect of attractiveness is most significant with the opposite sex. That is, the persuasive effect of attractiveness only works when the audience members being influenced are not of the same sex as the speaker. Why is this so? Bettinghaus and Code (1987) offer this answer: "Attractive sources influence us ...
- 363: Teenage Pregnancy
- ... education courses taught in schools, while others feel that these courses end up encouraging teenagers to become sexually active. Studies have been done to find out just how important sex education courses are, and what effect they have on pregnancy rates. The amount of sex education they receive is not as important a factor, according to a new study. (Fewer girls get pregnant when involved in community, E8) Toronto Sun, 1998) Other sources say: Sex education courses, advocated to prevent teen pregnancy but denounced as encouraged sexual interest, appear to have little or no effect on teens sexual activity. Such courses also have no noticeable effect on contraceptive use and pregnancy rates among teenagers. It was found that while students do learn about sex and contraception, they do not appear to alter their behavior. (Okie, 1996) The courses that are ...
- 364: Effects Of Drugs On Adolecents
- ... peer pressure, curiosity, and availability. Drugs addiction among adolescents in turn lead to depression and suicide. One of the most important reasons of teenage drug usage is peer pressure. Peer pressure represents social influences that effect adolescents, it can have a positive or a negative effect, depending on person's social group and one can follow one path of the other. We are greatly influenced by the people around us. In today's colleges drugs are very common, peer pressure usually ... don't exist. Known as "acid", this drug is extremely powerful, once teaspoon can contain up to 25'000 doses. Only 200 micrograms is needed for one trip. The danger of LSD is that the effect of LSD is extremely unpredictable since it depends on a person's physical conditions and also his/her mood. About one hour after taking LSD it'll start to take effect, the user will ...
- 365: Teenage Parenthood
- ... of NORML before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Judiciary Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, on March 6, 1996 In November 1996, the people of California approved proposition 215, an initiative that could, in effect, make marijuana legally available as a medicine in the United States for the first time in many years. Under this new law, patients or their primary caregivers that possess or cultivate marijuana for medical treatment ... any case, controlled studies can be misleading if the wrong patients are studies or the wrong doses are used, and idiosyncratic therapeutic responses can be obscured in group experiments. The chief legitimate concern is the effect of smoking on the lungs. Many physicians find it difficult to endorse a smoked medicine. Although cannabis smoke carries even more tabs and other particulate matter than tobacco smoke, the amount needed by most patients ... and duration of action of smoked marijuana are easier to titrate. Furthermore, oral THC occasionally makes many patients anxious and uncomfortable, possibly because of cannabidiol, one of the many substances in marijuana, has an anxiolytic effect. Besides their direct responsibility to individual patients with respect to medical marijuana, physicians have another obligation that is social and ultimately political. Jerome P. Kaiser has identified it in his recent New England Journal ...
- 366: Yasir Arafat
- ... 1967 arab-isreali war. The territories are the Gaza strip and the west bank. the PLO declared the existence of the state and elected Arafat it's president. But Israel continued to occupy and in effect govern the area. In 1993, the PLO-under Arafat's leadership, signed an agreement with Isreal for the star of a plan for Palestinian self-government for and Israel's withdrawals from the Gaza strip and the west bank. In 1994, this plan went into effect in the Gaza strip and the west bank city of Jericho. The PLO and Israel also gave recognition to each other and agreed to work to end their conflicts. Arafat and Israel leaders Yitzhak Rabin ... once again the world looked on as the unlikely pair jointly accepted the recognition for their effort. the talk about Yasir's “deteriorating Health” has been rife lately in media political circles. Reports to that effect are varied in credibility and authenticity and some particularly those originating from Israeli sources may be tendentious in nature and even politically motivated. However other reports leaked from inside the mot-so-hermetic PA ...
- 367: Total Quality Management In Construction
- ... to consider both the external customer and the employees, but should lack a defining or differentiating phrase between them. For example, General Motors provides all employees a card with its strategic vision, including a cause-effect diagram that indicates the importance of team work (figure 2). Simply stating a vision is not enough. It needs to be demonstrated by the actions of the executives, managers , superiors, foremen, and individuals. It should ... Identify barrier. As seen above some of these barriers may apply effecting progress. II. Place into categories. Related barriers and their systemic causes may now be analyzed. Categorization may be facilitated by using either cause-effect diagrams or quality function deployment. III. Establish priority. An objective process that is not influenced by management or hidden agenda must be developed. At this stage barriers are judged on their validity in accordance with ... each main type communication is an ongoing process for everyone. All forms of communication involve four elements: the sender, the receiver, the message, and the medium. The medium is the method of delivery, and can effect the message. It was said that "the medium is the message", referring in part to the filtering effects that can happen to the message and how personality factors may influence our understanding (figure. 4). ...
- 368: Crime and the Death Penalty
- ... favored the death penalty as a punishment for murder. There have been many comparisons of crime rates of death penalty states to non- death penalty states. These clearly show that the death penalty has no effect on the deteration of crime. The homicide rates in Michigan, Ohio and Illinois rise and fall along with Wisconsin. Michigan, Ohio and Illinois all have the death penalty. Wisconsin does not. In 1994, the average ... people, the lowest in 15 years. Isn't it odd that the crime rates were high with the death penalty and low without? Clearly this shows that the presence of the death penalty has no effect on the increase or decrease of crime rates. Even with the death penalty, crime rates continue to rise and fall in the United States. The number of people on death row in 1967 were in ... they witnessed at least one execution before the committed their crime. They committed the crime even though they had seen an execution before and that didn't scare them. Since the death penalty has no effect on the deteration of crime, what does? New York lowered crime rates by putting more police officers on the street, not by longer jail terms or death penalty. This was effective because if one ...
- 369: Smoking
- ... than non- smokers. (b) Women scored higher scores than men in the ES subscale (trend). (c) Men scored higher on AIS and TAS scale than women. (d) ES and BS subscales had a significant main effect for smoking status. This study concludes by showing "that smokers score higher on measures of sensation seeking than do non-smokers" (p. 224). This aids the belief that sensation seekers may be more open to ... at the end of month one, and then levels off finally at 87.2% between months one and twelve. From the results obtained an analysis was done to find which baseline predictors had the strongest effect on relapse. The relapse times were divided into four categories: Abstains during: a) 0-7 days; b) 8-30 days; c) 31-364 days and d) at 365 days (* groups A, B and C did not make it to 365 days abstinence). Outcomes revealed the following: (most significant at the top of the list and decreasing effect as the list goes down). (a) not quitting as long as you did the last time you tried to quit. (b) lower motivation to quit. (c) lower confidence to quit for 3 months. (d) ...
- 370: Ritalin
- ... treatment of Attention Deficit /Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). The mode of action in humans is not completely understood, but Ritalin presumably activates the arousal system of the brain stem and the cortex to produce its stimulant effect. Recently, the frequency of diagnosis for ADHD has increased dramatically. More children and an increasing number of adults are being diagnosed with ADHD. According to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) (Bailey 1995), prescriptions for Ritalin ... impulsivity. •Reduced restlessness and overactivity. •Improved patience. •More elaborate expressive vocabulary. •Better written expression and handwriting (especially in children). •An improved sense of "alertness". •Improved memory for visual as well as auditory stimuli. Ritalin's Effect on Neurotransmitter Systems Ritalin exhibits pharmacological activity similar to that of amphetamines. Ritalin's exact mechanism of action in the CNS is not fully understood, but the primary sites of activity appear to be in ... of all oral ADHD stimulant medications in onset of action: it starts to achieve benefit in 20 - 30 minutes after administration, and is most effective during the upward ‘slope' and peak serum levels. Ritalin's effect is brief: Most people experience 2-3 hours of benefit, but after 3 hours, benefits drop off rapidly. Some individuals, especially children, may obtain 4 or even 5 hours of positive effect (Clark 1996). ...
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