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- 3161: Atention Defficit Disorder
- ... Outwardly Expressive ADD communicate so that everyone knows what he or she is feeling. This behavior is characterized by hyperactivity, impulsively, a low frustration threshold, high level risk taking, difficulty with long term projects, little interest in details lack of temper control, expressive moods, and having an outgoing personality. These people can be successful in sales or entertainment or another career that requires a quick response and lots of energy. Outwardly ...
- 3162: Alcohol Benefits
- ... a lot of news lately for its positive benefits on heart health. Doctors believe it may even be responsible for the so-called French paradox -- people in France eat high-fat diets, but have lower rates of heart disease than Americans do. One reason red wine seems to have beneficial effects is that it contains chemicals called flavonoids, which appear to help prevent heart disease. Researchers in California found that even ...
- 3163: Cyclohexanone
- ... of molecular structure and the identification of unknown organic materials. The infrared spectrum yields direct information about the presence or absence of key functional groups. “The region of the infrared spectrum which is of greatest interest to organic chemists is the wavelength range 2.5 to 15 micrometers which correspond to approximately 4000 to 600cm-1”(Young). “When atoms or molecules absorb light, the incoming energy excites a quantized structure to ...
- 3164: Cloning
- ... Dolly’s success prove otherwise. The issues of cloning have been around for a long time, starting with the publication of Joshua Lederberg’s 1966 article on cloning in the American Naturalist, and the publics interest has been perked by many sci-fi books, films, and movies including Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel “Brave New World,” 1973’s “Sleeper,” the 1978 film “The Boys from Brazil,” and most recently, the movie ...
- 3165: Alcoholism 3
- ... a stable attitude toward drinking. Some cultures have a permissive attitude toward drinking, including those of Spain, Portugal, Italy, Japan, and Israel. The proportion of Jews and Italians who use alcohol is high, but the rates of alcoholism among them are lower than in Irish and Scandinavian groups. Some cultures may be said to look too favorably upon drinking, as do the French. In France the heavy consumption of alcohol has ...
- 3166: Chlamydia 2
- ... information with friends. Community-based strategies include public awareness, HIV and STD risk reduction programs, school involvement, and targeting out-of-school adolescents through vocational training centers, detention centers, and recreation programs. Schools can provide rates of the disease, its adverse symptoms and consequences, information on treatment for sex partners, and where and how to obtain care. Role playing in health classes can also be used to stress how to tell ...
- 3167: Cardiac Pacemakers
- ... pacemaker. A DDD pacemaker can sense intrinsic activity in the atrium and ventricle, pace either or both chambers when not inhibited by native activity, and thereby maintain atrioventricular synchrony over a wide range of heart rates. DDD units are noncommitted employing an atrial "blanking period following atrial stimuli to avoid sensing of such events on the ventricular channel. All such pacemakers have upper rate characteristics and blocking modes to prevent 1 ...
- 3168: Atom And Qi
- ... PHYSICISTS REQUIRE TO BELIEVE IN QI To test the scientific validity of qi, modern physicists would require the experiment be conducted as follows: 1) Find a number of biased people (people who have no particular interest in qi or modern science) and divide them into two groups. Teach one group to learn qigong and train them to emit qi from their own energy. 2) Bring them (both groups) to a thermodynamically ...
- 3169: Alcoholism 2
- ... of alcoholism, the social stigma attached to it decreases, alcoholics and their families tend to conceal it less, and diagnosis is not delayed as long. Earlier and better treatment has led to encouragingly high recovery rates. In addition to managing physical complications and withdrawal states, treatment involves individual counseling and group therapy techniques aimed at complete and comfortable abstinence from alcohol and other mood-changing drugs of addiction. Such abstinence, according ...
- 3170: Antibiotic Resistance 2
- ... threatening illnesses (Enterococcus faecalis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa) already evade every antibiotic in the clinician's stockpile of more than 100 drugs. In part because of the rise in resistance to antibiotics, the death rates for some communicable diseases (such as tuberculosis) have started to rise again, after having declined in the industrial nations. How did we end up in this worrisome, and worsening, situation? Several interacting processes are at ...
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