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Animal Experimentation
Number of words: 1764 - Number of pages: 7.... pigs-a
practice later extended to other species and termed "vivisection" (Loew, 1982).
However, it was not until the sixteenth century that many experiments on animals
began to be recorded. In 1628, William Harvey published his work on the heart
and the movement of blood in animals (French, 1975). In the 18OOs, when France
became one of the leading centers of experimental biology and medicine-marked by
the work of such scientists as Francis Magendie in experimental physiology,
Claude Bernard in experimental medicine, and Louis Pasteur in microbiology and
immunology-investiga .....
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Mescaline
Number of words: 673 - Number of pages: 3.... and has little or
no withdraw effects, although the dangers do increase with higher dosages.
A light dose (100-200mg) can give the user feelings of giddiness or anxiety,
and a moderate dose of Mescaline (200-300mg) begins to impair the senses.
Strong doses (300-500mg) will induce hallucinations and effect the user's
perceptions of color, time, and space. Heavy does of Mescaline (500-700mg)
and frequent use of mescaline will cause symptoms of schizophrenia,
psychotic episodes, and may be fatal. At any point the user may also feel
the effects of nausea, dizziness, depressed or increased breat .....
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Kawasaki Disease
Number of words: 2118 - Number of pages: 8.... any time that it is diagnosed to a patient above that age it should be interpreted with suspicion. The diagnosis may not be completely accurate because there is still as of yet no definitive way to test for , only the doctor’s interpretation of the symptoms. In the United States approximately three thousand patients will be hospitalized for every year. Even with the amount of cases and the time being spent into investigating and treating the disease there are still many unanswered questions.
The highest incidence of is found in Japan. The chance of in Japanese children under the age of .....
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Rustproofing
Number of words: 586 - Number of pages: 3.... is that it is almost impossible to hold a charge (potential difference) on a sharp thin edge of metal, and so this technology is not really suited for vehicles, which are made up of many irregular shapes. Because of this, it is also ineffective on existing rust and the areas surrounding it, as rust always causes sharp edges and damaged paintwork.
Electronic rust prevention is another method used to prevent rust using one of two technologies; either Impressed Current or Sacrificial Anode. Impressed Current units are extremely effective in dry conditions but ineffective in the wet. Sacrificial .....
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The Ozone Layer
Number of words: 1504 - Number of pages: 6.... than do dry
regions. Changes in both water and carbon dioxide play an important role in
climate changes. For this reason many scientist have expressed concerns over
the global increase of carbon dioxide in resent decades, largely as a result of
the burring of fossil fuels. In many other factors of the earth’s present
climate remain more or less constant, the carbon dioxide increase should raise
the average temperature at the earth’s surface. Because warm air can contain
warm water before reaching saturation than cooler air can, the amount of water
would probably increase as the atmo .....
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MPD
Number of words: 751 - Number of pages: 3.... who had done this to him. He had to go to court and get tried for the murder. Through the whole movie he had two personalities, one was a sweet, innocent, quite boy and the other was the man that had killed this other man. This personality was a very cruel and loud man. The court had decided to let him go because he had this disorder. At the end, come to find out the boy was just acting and there was no sweet, innocent personality. Only one and that was the one who was a cruel, cold-hearted murder. I believe that this movie shows why they can not use this disorder in court systems. .....
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Taking The Pill Depression And
Number of words: 1197 - Number of pages: 5.... of one of the neurotransmitters, which transmits the signal to the second cell, and so on around the body. After a nerve impulse has been sent across a synapse, special enzymes clear away the neurotransmitter so that another impulse may be sent.
The first antidepressants, monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors, were discovered accidentally during the 1960's by researchers who were trying to develop new drugs to treat tuberculosis. MAO inhibitors didn't help TB, but they elevated mood. Since then, many other types of antidepressants have been developed. They are all about equally effective. But t .....
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Aids 2
Number of words: 744 - Number of pages: 3.... the HIV related illness or illnesses will differ from person to person, according many factors but mostly to the overall health of the individual. The new advances in technology are helping postpone the advancement of the disease.
Lets start at the beginning. First, lets learn what AIDS is. AIDS is an acquired defect in your immune system. The passing of any bodily fluids could technically be used as a passage way for the virus. Once infected with HIV it will begin to attack your CD4+cells, commonly known as your t-cells or t-helpers and they will begin to drop in numbers. You measure .....
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Biotechnology
Number of words: 770 - Number of pages: 3.... politics, Bioengineering has opened a whole new
door pertaining to the military, whose use of it may create an
ultimate destruction. The alterance of nature is un-natural, and creates
an unbalancement in life. When we use this technology towards the
wrong side, we may all be burned. You see, Biotechnology has the
ability to altar what diseases we humans are susceptible to, and when
scientists create something to eliminate immunities to diseases, it may
result in a mass destruction of the evolved living being known as
the human. This may sound tragic, but this is what Biotechnology is
all ab .....
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Genetic Engineering 3
Number of words: 1929 - Number of pages: 8.... the start of its creation. Genetics achieved its first foothold on the secrets of nature's evolutionary process, when an Austrian Monk named Gregor Mendel developed the basics of how genetics work. Using this, scientist studied the characteristics of organisms for the next one hundred years following Mendel's discoveries. These early studies concluded that each organism has two sets of character determinants, genes (Stableford 16). For instance, in regards to eye color, a child could receive one set of genes from his or her father that were encoded one blue, the other brown. The same .....
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