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- 731: Suicide in Las Vega
- ... murder, suicide, and death in Clark County, Nevada. Coroner Ron Flud's office is filled with trophies, plants, and photographs, not unlike a career counselor's at a small-town college. Flud clasps his hands, studying me, and begins. "First, gambling suicides in Las Vegas are minimal. It's one or two every ten years. Residents form the highest core group. And it's almost always from alienation in a relationship ...
- 732: Assisted Suicide: An Easier Way Out
- ... that these human experiments allow us to fully understand how the human body functions. He also proposed to allow the criminals who are condemned to donate their organs for transplant. (Hosenball, p.28-29). Through studying on live humans we would gain a much greater understanding of ourselves and possibly discover some new medicinal drugs. The terminally ill will not recover from their disease, they might decide to unlawfully take their ...
- 733: Nature / Nurture or Both !
- ... Neubrauer, Peter. p 38) Studies of identical twins reared apart have provided researchers with a lot of clues about the role of heredity in every day life behavior. Twins (monozygotes) are of extraordinary importance when studying heredity because they share identical copies of genes. An interesting study on twin brothers who were separated at birth and raised in different countries by respective adoptive parents showed that they both kept their lives ...
- 734: Beauty
- ... partner. Traits are also an important factor in attractiveness and beauty. Traits reflect fertility and sexual potency in particular. An expert in female traits, Devendra Singh works as a psychologist at the University of Texas studying the attractive traits of the female figure. His survey on attractive female figures gives an outlook on what men find most attractive. According to the results of his survey, men found figure N7 in Devendra ...
- 735: Definition of the Oedipus Complex
- ... to broaden the population. Frequency Distribution: way to organize a set of scores by creating a picture of them (graph). Null Hypothesis: there is no difference in performance between the different conditions that you are studying. Alternative Hypothesis: Ho= research hypothesis, the outcome you are hoping to find. (therefore in my study I am hoping to disprove or reject the Ho, thereby supporting the Hi, the hypothesis close to my heart ...
- 736: Sleep Apnea
- ... neither the mind nor the body truly cease activity during sleep. Far from turning off, the brain in sleep generates a variety of states , accompanied by predictable physiological changes and typical forms of mentation." By studying Drs. Speilman and Glovinsky works one can conclude, the sleeplessness of sleep apnea or the prolonged wakefulness of creative output, the timing of physiological rhythms can be affected by psychological states. In 1988 a congressional ...
- 737: Plagues and Diseases
- ... Fever" was not highly communicable. About a month later, in August, precautions were relaxed, and a doctor investigating the disease, Dr. Gregg, took off his mask. He was promptly infected. After he recovered, he started studying rat and bird droppings in the center. Neither the CDC nor the MHD (Michigan Health Department) could suggest clues.16 Dr. Gregg rushed 90 lab animals, of which only the guinea pigs developed pneumonia. He ...
- 738: Obesity
- ... when the body is under severe stress. It is a cousin of the brain chemical that generates the body's "fight or flight" response. Unocortin was discovered at the Salk Institute, when a researcher was studying a neuropeptide which activates body stress reactors. He noticed receptors in parts of the brain where the chemical did not exist. However, it may be a long time before unocortin is actually a consumer drug ...
- 739: Lucid Dreams: The First Virtual Reality
- ... there is a way to dream and not be at the mercy of your subconscious mind. For the past ten years a bright psychologist at Stanford University, by the name of Steven Laberge, has been studying dreams and the physiology of the human body during the dream state. His research may sound commonplace if it weren't for the added fact that he is training people to control their dreams. His ...
- 740: Ovarian Cancer
- ... occurs in ovarian tumors. However, the significance remains to be determined. It is controversial as to whether overexpression of the HER-2/neu gene in ovarian cancer is associated with poor prognosis. In addition to studying proto-oncogenes in tumors, it may be beneficial to investigate proto-oncogenes in germ-line DNA from members of families with histories of ovarian cancer (Barber, 323-324). It is questionable whether inheritance or rare ...
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