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- 6241: Information Management
- ... significant advances in data communications character coding resulted in the development of 8-Bit characters. In 1962, IBM created and promoted, a coding standard known as Extended Binary-Coded-Decimal Interchange Code or EBCDIC for short. This coding scheme defined 8-bit characters, allowing up to 256 characters to be used. Another standard called the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) was adopted in 1963 and ultimately won the standards ...
- 6242: Agatha Christie
- ... of her Graham 2 works. Her marriage to Christie lasted only twelve years, and they were divorced in 1926. Not long after her divorce from her first husband, Christie disappeared without a trace for a short period of ten days. She was found at a resort hotel, claiming to be a victim of amnesia caused by emotional stress. Agatha Christie had checked into the hotel under the alias Theresa Neele; Neele ...
- 6243: Artificial Contraceptives
- ... many times lured to believing that it is okay to have sex. Yes, condoms and diaphragms do provide protection, but many times they are forgotten to be used, especially when sexual intercourse is spontaneous. In short, if artificial contraceptives were not available, youngsters as well as adults would not be forced to take sexual intercourse as a highly responsible act. This would, most likely, decrease the amount of youngsters taking part ...
- 6244: Exotic Diseases And The Treat To Humanity
- ... The fact that an outbreak could easily occur, if there was just a little neglect towards the control systems, is devastating. The result of such an action could be a world epidemic in a very short period of time, with a variety of different viruses. There were several outbreaks in mosquito borne diseases between 1985 and 1992 in specific areas in the USA, St. Louis, Florida, and Texas. At the time ...
- 6245: Internet
- ... They can scroll through what they want to know and quickly bypass useless information at there own speed. There is no pressure on the customer to continue they may even take a break or a short pause whenever they feel it is necessary. Because the Internet is entirely at the touch of your own fingers, it can make customers and even browsers feel very comfortable. If that does not bring connivance ...
- 6246: Cocaine and Its Dangers
- ... it may also cause a stroke." "The physical effects include diluted pupils, increased pulse rate, insomnia, loss of appetite, tactile hallucinations." There are many reasons why people use drugs. "Some use drugs only for a short time, possibly only once or twice, that are experimenters." "They also want to feel loved and accepted, so they are will to try or take drugs." "Sometimes they are out of boredom, out of curiosity ...
- 6247: Internet Firewalls
- ... a secure and successful Internet environment. Filtering and connectivity policies must be defined and must incorporate not only security needs, but also the computing needs of the organization. If the computing needs are ignored or short-changed, the Firewall may become too complex to administer or may become essentially useless. Security requirements need to be weighed carefully and accommodations may be necessary if productivity will be hampered by the security policy ...
- 6248: Hemophilia
- ... as the "Royal disease" because it spread to the royal families of Europe through Victoria's descendants. Hemophilia first appeared in Victoria's family in her eighth child, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. Throughout his short life, Leopold had suffered severe hemorrhages, and always was described as "very delicate." Leading the life of a normal youngster was impossible for Leopold because any cut or bump could lead to death and it ...
- 6249: Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenia No other psychological disorder is as widely misunderstood as schizophrenia. The public often associates schizophrenia with multiple personality disorder, assuming that schizophrenic patients fluctuate between a placid personality and a monstrous, violent one. Famous stories such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde help support this belief. Nothing could be further from the truth. The term schizophrenic literally means split-mind, the term refers to the fragmentation or splitting of normally ...
- 6250: Cholera: Virulence, Origin, and Pandemics
- ... example. Since the mortality rate is 100%, it does no good to measure virulence in this way. Instead, different strains of HIV can be quantified by how fast they produce the onset of AIDS. In short, the more virulent strains have greater success in shortening the length of onset of AIDS after contracting HIV (1). The second type of virulence noted by Ewald (1) was in circumstances where contraction of the ...
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