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Depression..a Deadly Disease
1858 Words - 7 Pages.... and in action. The ringing of a telephone assaults you and you shrink from answering it.' …given by the famous writer W. Styrone, in his book entitled Darkness Visible, providing us with an in-dept description of his own personal experiences when he suffered from depression
Over the course of the year, 17.6 million American adults suffer from a depressive illness. That is 10% of the population. (Pfizer, Dealing) Depression is a whole-body illness, including mind, mood, body, and thoughts. It effects everything from the way you sleep to the way you feel about yourself. It effects how you react and how you see things. Depressive illnesses often interfere with normal func ....
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Inventions Benefited Society
463 Words - 2 Pages.... papers and pens to record data that we gathered. As a
breakthrough technology today, computers have replaced pens and papers. Many businesses are now relying on
computers because their statistics and calculations are more accurate than manual calculations. These machines
are enabling us to perform many different tasks in less time and making our lives easier.
Computers in telecommunications have allowed us to do many things from the comfort of our homes
that could never be done before; such as talking with distant friends and relatives, buying merchandise, doing
research, and a steadily increasing number of other things. At nearly any time of day we can buy some ....
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Nuclear Power
1803 Words - 7 Pages.... energies can be used according to the
kind of energy they emit.
Since the mid 1900's radioactive wastes have been stored in
different manners, but since several years new ways of disposing and
storing these wastes have been developed so they may no longer be harmful.
A very advantageous way of storing radioactive wastes is by a process
called 'vitrification'.
Vitrification is a semi-continuous process that enables the
following operations to be carried out with the same equipment:
evaporation of the waste solution mixed with the additives necesary for
the production of borosilicate glass, calcination and elaboration of the
glass. These operations are carried out in a m ....
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The Ocean
1232 Words - 5 Pages.... fish and
shrimp are always moving around the ocean and follow the ocean currents.
What is ocean current? It is a movement of ocean thatcan buring the fish to
other places. There are two kinds of circulation create the currents in the
ocean. They are (1) wind-driven circulation and (2) Thermohaline circulation.
Wind-driven circulation result from the wind sets the surface waters into motion
as currents. The currents generally flow horizontally-that is parallel to the
earth¡¦s surface. The wind mainly affects only the upper 100 to 200 meters of
water. However, the flow of wind-driven currents may extend to depths of 1,000
meters or more.
Thermohaline circulation produces ....
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Quantum Theory?
966 Words - 4 Pages.... encounter several problems with the theory through situations they come to face (Crighton).
Quantum mechanics, by definition, is a general mathematical theory dealing with the interactions of matter and energy in terms of observable quantities of quanta, small bundles of energy. Quanta are the fundamental building blocks of everything according to the (The New Merriam-Webster Dictionary). The spaces between these quanta are called quantum foam; it is through these spaces that entities are destroyed and simultaneously reconstructed by teleportation, thus “moving” the entities to different places in our universe and helping them travel to other universes.
In the nove ....
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Armadillo
438 Words - 2 Pages.... varied diet. They hunt by night.
Today's Armadillos are not the biggest armadillos that have ever
existed. The soil of South America is full of larger Armadillo bones from
the past. Some of the past bones were as much as sixteen feet long
including the tail. Some even migrated to Texas.
There are several species of these animals. The Six-banded Armadillos
were good burrowers and massive devourers of insects. They also ate
vegetable matter and were useful for devouring carrion. One specie called
the Peludo was clumsy bet was effective in getting a snake to its armored
hide and grinding the life out of it. It then eats the snake not effected
by ....
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California Water Pollution
368 Words - 2 Pages.... We all know that there is a problem , but the question is, what is being done to solve that problem ?
There are many laws and regulations to keep our water clean. Such as proposition 65 "The safe drinking water and toxic enforcement act" of unsafe levels of chemicals known to cause cancer and reproductive harm into actual or potential water sources. There is also the Toxic Pits cleanup act of 1984. This act states that there is to be no discharge of hazardous wastes within an half a mile of a potential drinking water source. This is something being done, but water does travel and seep through ground so what is this act really doing. The clean water act is designed t ....
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Anatomy Of A Muscle Cell
1020 Words - 4 Pages.... fibers is set before birth and most of these fibers will last a lifetime.
The muscle growth that occurs after birth is a result of the enlargement of these existing muscle fibers. The mature muscle fibers have a few myoblasts, which remain as satellite cells. These myoblasts retain the capacity to join with one another or with damaged muscle fibers in order to regenerate these muscle fibers.
John Centore2
Dr. Jain
Anatomy & Physiology
The many nuclei of skeletal muscle fiber are located underneath the sarcolemma, which is the fiber’s plasma membrane. Thousands of invaginations of the sarcolemma, which are called T Tubules, Tunnel from the surface to the center ....
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