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Neural Networks
Number of words: 2975 - Number of pages: 11.... financial data into financial predictions (Wo96).
Neural networks utilize a parallel processing structure that has large
numbers of processors and many interconnections between them. These processors
are much simpler than typical central processing units (He90). In a neural
network, each processor is linked to many of its neighbors so that there are
many more interconnections than processors. The power of the neural network
lies in the tremendous number of interconnections (Za93).
ANN's are generating much interest among engineers and scientists.
Artificial neural network models .....
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Psychoanalysis
Number of words: 2215 - Number of pages: 9.... just telling him all of her thoughts and feelings.
Freud refined Breuer's method by conceptualizing theories about it and, using these theories, telling his patients through interpretations what was going on inside the unconscious part of their minds, thus making the unconscious become conscious. Many hysterias were cured this way, and in 1895, Breuer and Freud published their findings and theories in Studies in Hysteria.
CLASSIC PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
Traditional psychoanalytical theory states that all human beings are born with instinctual drives that are constantly active even though a p .....
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Huntington's Disease
Number of words: 304 - Number of pages: 2.... announced that the Huntington's Disease
Collaborative Research Group had discovered the gene behind the disease. This
was a major breakthrough in the effort to understand and eventually work toward
a treatment of the disorder.
Our group has decided to have the child. We have a steady income of
$52,000 and are insured through our employers. Our counselor said that it was
souly our decision to whether or not we wanted to have a child, but he warned us
that the child could have a 50% chance of having the disease. However, he did
point out that we were quite young to even be worried about start .....
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Preventing Injuries
Number of words: 859 - Number of pages: 4.... begin are appropriate for their fitness level.
Once a person is cleared to exercise, they should always remember to stretch and warm up before doing the activity. Like any automobile, a person also needs to warm up their body before being used. One of the best ways to do this is to just do a light jog and then stretch. This way the muscles are warmed up a little bit and the person is not stretching cold muscles which could cause an injury. Once they start to stretch, the person exercising should go through a routine to ensure that all the muscles are stretched and strong. One way to do .....
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Speech On Euthanasia
Number of words: 530 - Number of pages: 2.... dignity.
Imagine if you were a person who was suffering from some horrible disease, you lie on the bed 24 hours a day with tubes all over your body, there is no way you can have a normal life again, EVER! Would you want to live like this? Sure the doctor could keep anyone alive today, they can keep the heart pumping. BUT is this life? I don’t think so.
In another case, where a person who was involved in a bad accident, and left as a quadriplegic – this mean they are completely paralysised.
People who are quadriplegic will have poor quality of life, and the carers, and their exte .....
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Dreams
Number of words: 1481 - Number of pages: 6.... fly or walk through walls.
The powers of dreams
The dreaming world could be a very powerful thing so much so that it
causes a baby to be born because of lucid dreaming. In a true story taken from
the book called Living with Dreams a woman dreamt that she just had a period in
her dreams. This was so realistic that she actually thought she had a real
period not one dreamt up in a dream. A few days later she had sex thinking that
it was the best time to have sex without becoming pregnant. Two or three weeks
she felt something strange was happening and so consulted a doctor who said that
she h .....
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Depression And Its Causes
Number of words: 480 - Number of pages: 2.... of verbal, physical, or
sexual abuse. The separation or loss of a loved one, a family history of
depression, incarceration, pregnancy, lower social statuses, homosexuality,
and mental retardation could also cause a child or young adult to become
depressed. Doctors say that the depression symptoms for kids are the same
as in adults, except that children suffer more from physical symptoms such
as hallucinations, agitation, and phobias. This depression in childhood
and adolescence can lead to poor school performance, alcohol and drug abuse,
promiscuity, teenage pregnancy, other pyschiatri .....
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Cystic Fibrosis
Number of words: 761 - Number of pages: 3.... trouble gaining weight, frequent greasy, foul smelling bowel, growths in the nose (nasal polyps) and clubbed or enlarged fingertips and toe tips is another symptom. Now there are many tests that can be done to find out if a person has CF.
Doctors can now do genetic testing for CF, but about 10 years ago they couldn't. In 1989, the location where the of the defective gene on chromosome number 7 is was discovered by Francis S. Collins from University of Michigan. Tests can now be taken to see if an unborn child is infected with CF such tests are amniocentesis, chronic villus biopsy and a .....
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Number of words: 654 - Number of pages: 3.... at the time of their death. Another important issue that has been further investigated is that SIDS may be the result of the combinations of many syndromes. Such as: gastroesophageal reflux mixed with respiratory disease. #3
One of the newest ideas that researchers have suggested may be the cause of SIDS is “Vertebral Artery Compression Resulting from Head Movement”. This concept suggests that the rotation and extension of an infant’s neck during sleep may result in vertebral arter compression. The function of this artery is that it controls the blood flow to the brainstem. Compre .....
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Abortion: Pro-life - Reilyism Speech
Number of words: 781 - Number of pages: 3.... grown at
adulthood, many of us here are not adults yet -- and by that definition, it
wouldn't matter if your shot and killed on the street because "your not
fully developed". We are a stage in development -- teenager -- just like a
child is, just like a toddler is, just like an old man is, and just like a
aborted child is. There is no magical transformation that occurs when a
child is born. He has the same basic needs to survive before he is born,
and the same needs after he is born.
The negative is going to attempt to make you believe that the
differnce in quality of a unborn c .....
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