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- 3521: Malaria
- ... migrate, however, and over time the disease has slowly spread throughout the tropics. Major problems also exist when ignorant tourists to Africa transfer the parasite to non malarious areas (Graham, 1996). Biologists are also using control measures, such as spraying DDT to kill mosquitoes, draining stagnant water, and using the widespread use of nets to contain the mosquito itself (Herman, 1996). Because of the worsening situation, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared malaria control to be a global priority (Limited Imagination, 1996). Although limiting the spread of malaria is not easy, finding a cure has presented several problems in recent years. One main reason finding a cure for malaria ...
- 3522: Fordism And Scientific Managem
- ... Fordism takes its name from the mass production units of Henry Ford, and is identified by an involved technical division of labour within companies and their production units. Other characteristics of Fordism include strong hierarchical control, with workers in a production line often restricted to the one single task, usually specialised and unskilled. Scientific management, on the other hand, “originated” through Fredrick Winslow Taylor in 1911, and in very basic terms ... of scientific management did (Robbins,1997, p.40). Although Fordism borrowed many scientific management ideas, it then advanced upon them to produce a new form of management that included management having hierarchical authority and technical control. Fordism enabled managers to regulate production and safeguard their own position within firms as well as meeting the efficiency criteria set by owners. The obvious efficiencies of Fordism and features that were responsible for the ...
- 3523: The United States' Involvement In World War 2
- ... Three American divisions and three British and Canadian combined divisions landed on Sicily with the hopes of securing the Mediterranean and knocking Italy out of the war. The Allied forces were under General Eisenhower’s control. It took thirty-nine days for the Allies to take Sicily. The Allies had defeated two Italian divisions and four German divisions. By August 17 the Axis resistance surrendered, however, it was not the end ... of the Ardennes. The sweep of German soldiers was a surprise attack upon the American soldiers. The Americans quickly attempted to put up resistance, yet the force of the Germans was too strong. Germany took control of a critical road centers, yet it was not for long. American air support overwhelmingly attacked the Germans. By the end of January 1945 the Americans had fended off the Germans and began enclosing on ...
- 3524: Elduc In 2000
- ... to break up the chaos. Eli took action and planned a route to raid the rioters. It worked. Eli attacked the leader; scrambled, fought, and clubbed the drug dealer until he was under Eli’s control. Since Eli apprehended one of the biggest drug dealers in the city, everyone on the force praised him. Actually, the chief was so happy he wanted to celebrate that night by having a party. There ... deeper and deeper as the years pass. Even the president of the United States lowers his standards by lying and committing adultery; and he’s the head of our nation! Unfortunately our society has little control for such a chaotic environment. Shamefully, people perpetrate these misdeeds. In reality, the tale of Eliduc 2000, is a conceivable scenario we could end up reading over breakfast some morning .
- 3525: Eagle Eyes
- ... Ben and his dad go to visit Dr. Lawson and she informs Ben he has Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Ben realizes his body does not get enough of the chemical she needs to help him control how his body moves and thinks. With the help of Dr. Lawson and his family, Ben realizes the things he needs to think about and the things he needs to pay attention to with his ... doctor he finds out, he has ADD. The book goes on to tell that he needs medication like many the children who have ADD. Ben and his father work on ways of keeping himself under control and that shows the role parents need to play with children with ADD. By using this book in my classroom, I would explain the ways ADD can effect a child. Probably some of my students ...
- 3526: The Tomorrow City by Monica City
- ... City ii) Hamish Hamilton Children's Books, Ltd. iv) Number of Pages: 137 PART B i) The plot of this book centres around two adolescents, David and Caro and an evil supercomputer which aspires to control the futuristic city of Thompsonville. Dr. Henderson, Caro's Father creates the "perfect" computer designed to solve all of the problems of Thompsonville by gaining almost complete power of the city. The computer then begins ... used its capabilities to immorally rule the citizens and the city of Thompsonville. The computer transmitted hypnotic signals through peoples T.V. sets and would use them to carry out it's will to ultimately control the city. It then discarded anything or anyone who were useless to it's purpose including the elderly and the sick. PART C One of the major arguments that the author uses to emphasize the ...
- 3527: Huntington's Disease
- ... normal level of an important brain brain protein, bFGF (or basic fibroblast growth factor) in areas of the brain effected by the chorea. This occurs from the problems on chromosome 4, where the gene for control of bFGF is also located. As of yet, there is no treatment for Huntington's disease. But with the discovery of the mutated genes that cause it, there is now a way of diagnosing if ... So, she began to invite biologists to help study the disease while she worked to get her Ph.D. In 1976 she moved to Washington to become executive director of the Congressional Commission for the control of Huntington's disease and it's Consequences. Once there, they discovered that Huntington's disease works by distroying the Ganglia. Then they decided that the best way to research Huntington's disease was at ...
- 3528: Four Myth Theories
- ... myth theory. The rational myth theory states that myths were created to explain natural events and forces. Functional myths are what you call the kinds of myths that were created as a type of social control. The third myth theory is the structural myth theory. This theory says that myths were patterned after human mind and human nature. The phsycological myth theory is the fourth myth theory which states that myths ... It states that myths told about what types of things should and shouldn’t be done, and the consequences for those wrong doings. The functional myth theory also states that myths were created for social control and served the function of insuring stability in a society. A story about a tribe who rebelled against the great serpent, Degei, is a good example of a functional myth. This story is about a ...
- 3529: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
- ... very low, the reason why this led to such a large number of BSE cases is that much of the United Kingdom dairy cattle population was exposed for many, continuous years (Kimberlin, 1993). To help control the outbreak, the British government in 1988 introduced a ban on the feeding of ruminant protein to other ruminant animals (Lacey, 1995). Such knowledge for the pathogenesis of the BSE disease shows precisely the actions that must be taken in order to control and minimize the risk of infection in healthy cattle around the world (Darnton, 1996). The appearance of BSE has made a sizable impact throughout much of the world even though few countries, other than the ...
- 3530: Environmental Crisis
- ... that have accompanied improvements in the quality of people's lives and the increasing use of contraceptives throughout the South. As peoples' economic well-being improves they tend to have less children. Future efforts to control population growth will depend on the North's capacity to share the world's resources and the ability of poor nations to improve the quality of life experienced by their people. At the beginning of ... son preference on female infanticide and the sex ratio, the impact of a fast fertility reduction on population aging, and the implications of exempting the country's 55 minority groups from the nation's fertility control measures. The global significance of China's demographics is likewise enormous. Whatever the size of China's population is at the dawn of the 21st century it is certain to account for twenty percent of ...
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