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- 3511: Muscle Growth
- Muscle Growth Introduction With the introduction of such modern conveniences such as the automobile, remote control, and even the electric toothbrush people are relying on technology to do everything for them. With a generation growing up in todays society physical tasks have almost become obsolete. Tasks such as even going shopping ... difficult tasks, such as running the hurdles in a track and field event.. Muscles are also important to maintain balance and posture. Description of Muscles In the body there are several types of muscles that control different functions in the body, one of these types being skeletal muscle. Skeletal muscle is the most evident in the human body due to it having the most mass the other types of muscles and ...
- 3512: The Awakening and The Scarlet Letter: Struggles of the Heroines
- ... contract" (Wyatt 1). This law exhibits the attitude toward women in this time period. The code also goes on to state that women are the possessions of their husbands, and the male is in complete control over the family. Chopin hints at the idea of women as a possession in the first chapter. After coming in from the beach, Lιonce Pontellier remarks to his wife, Edna, that she looks extremely sunburned ... head of the household, his responsibilities are to be head of the family and provide for the family financially. In the eyes of Creole society, Lιonce is an ideal husband. He seems to have commanding control over his wife and children, and he provides for his family by his brokerage business. With mans position in society, the woman of the house is delegated responsibilities, such as looking after the children ...
- 3513: Melatonin And The Pineal Gland
- ... their first few days of life, babies still have to receive it from breast milk. Our levels of melatonin peak during childhood, then decrease at the beginning of puberty, so that other hormones can take control of our bodies. As we get older, the amount of melatonin we produce continues to decrease until at age 60, we produce about half as much as we did at age 20. With the rapid ... right now like curing insomnia and regulating sleeping patterns, eliminating the effects of jet-lag, and relieving every day stress. Melatonin is known as the "regulator of regulators", because it sends out the messages that control the amounts of all the different hormones in our bodies. It is a balance among our different hormones that keeps us healthy, and as we age, our different hormone levels can become unbalanced, which results ...
- 3514: Forensic Science
- ... accident, a suicide, or a homicide. In cases involving gunshot wounds, the medical examiner looks for gunpowder residues on the clothing of the victim and around wounds. The information is used to determine whether the gun was fired by the victim of by someone else. In the case of knife wounds, the medical examiner must distinguish between a cut (an injury that is longer than deep) and a stab wound (an ... diatoms are filtered from tap water. A scanning electron microscope that can magnify objects 100,000 times is used to detect tiny gunpowder particles present on he hand of a person who recently fired a gun. One of the oldest techniques of forensic science is dusting the scene of a crime for fingerprints. In one method of obtaining a fingerprint, a technician spreads fine powder over a surface with a brush ...
- 3515: Healthy LIfestyle
- ... does not mean that you cannot eat sweets or fatty foods, it just means that you should constantly keep in mind how a certain food will affect your body. One wants to always remain in control, do not gorge yourself and then skip a few meals to make up for it. Always keep things in proportion, such as maybe eating a light healthy breakfast and lunch and then allowing yourself a slightly heavier food for dinner or for snack. Remember, this does not mean that you must become a health-food nut it is simply a reminder that you should exercise some control over your food intake. Exercising regularly is another very important component to a healthy lifestyle. You should exercise a minimum of 3 days a week for a minimum of about 20 min. This does not ...
- 3516: How Television Works
- ... and some were mechanical rather then electronic. Inside a television set, there are many different parts, which serve different tasks. First the waves are received by an antenna, then they are shot from the electron gun, which is a device the aims and sends the signal. Those beams go through a funnel, which starts to project the image. The projection isn't one piece as it appears though. It's actually ... funnel converges into a neck, which holds the electron guns. This is where color TV comes in. It's more complicated then black and white TV, but holds the same principals. Rather then one electron gun there are three for the different colors red, blue, and green. With the three color beams traveling side by side, the holes in the mask ensure that each beam will only hit a certain phosphor ...
- 3517: How To Deal With A Person Who
- How to deal with a person who is angry? We are taught to control our emotional feelings when we are young. We learn to be polite, patient, and hide our anger to people in everyday life. Most of us express our feelings indirectly: slamming doors, sullen silence, or snubbing ... of all, when we are dealing with someone who is angry, try to understand what his/her anger is. If we are talking with an angry person, the first thing we have to do to control ourselves is not to be involved in his/her strong emotions. So, calm down, and ask why he/she is mad and listen to what he/she wants to say to us. Understanding the elements ...
- 3518: Male Circumcision: A Social and Medical Misconception
- ... of UTIs as the circumcision rate declined. By clearly leaving out "aberrant data", the results of the study are again very misleading. In 1989, Herzog from Boston Children's Hospital reported on a retrospective case-control study on the relationship between the incidence of UTI and circumcision in the male infant under one year of age. Here too, the results were not adjusted to account for the variables of age, ethnicity ... a study conducted by Parker and associates estimates the relative risk of uncircumcised males to be double that of circumcised males for acquiring herpes genitalis, candidiasis, gonorrhea, and syphilis. Simonsen and coworkers performed a case-control study on 340 men in Kenya, Africa in an attempt to explain the different pattern for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) virus in Africa as compared to the United States. (Thompson, 1990) The authors conclude ...
- 3519: History Of Coca-Cola
- ... needed to show his wife his compassion for her and his children and his family views. He decided to give the company to his children on Christmas Day 1917.18. The oldest son, Howard took control of the company with 17.www.geocities.com 18.www.tangaworld.com his rivaling and bickering siblings at the board. This environment was not healthy for the business. In 1919 Dobbs saw this as an ... marketing considerably and made many satisfied customers with returning soldiers.24. 21.www.tangaworld.com 22.www.geocities.com 23.www.tangaworld.com 24.www.sodafountain.com Although Robert Woodruff retired in 1955, he kept control of the business through the Finance Committee. He lived to see many challenges such as Pepsi and many accomplishments such as the introductions of many new beverages such as Sprite, TaB, Mello Yello, Mr. Pibb ...
- 3520: America and the Computer Industry
- ... In 1945 he undertook a theoretical study of computation that demonstrated that a computer could have a very simple and yet be able to execute any kind of computation effectively by means of proper programmed control without the need for any changes in hardware. Von Neumann came up with incredible ideas for methods of building and organizing practical, fast computers. These ideas, which came to be referred to as the stored ... output means such as page printers, cathode-ray-tube displays, and graphing devices; and optional magnetic-tape and magnetic-disk file storage. These found wide use in business for such applications as accounting, payroll, inventory control, ordering supplies, and billing. Central processing units (CPUs) for such purposes did not need to be very fast arithmetically and were primarily used to access large amounts of records on file. The greatest number of ...
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