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Chicken Pox
397 Words - 2 Pages.... spreads to the face, and then to the extremities. The
infected person will get to temperatures of one hundred and
two degrees Fahrenheit and that will last throughout the
breakout. The rash is quite itchy and becomes dry, crusted,
and falls off in a week. More bumps will come about every
three days. Scars will be present if they get infected, badly
scratched or removed. A physician is not usually not needed to make a
diagnosis but after the symptoms appear it is still best to
make sure it is the chicken pox and not something much
worse. The physician can easily make a diagnosis by
checking the basic symptoms. Chicken pox is controlled by keeping the infected
p ....
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Aquired Dyslexia
1877 Words - 7 Pages.... Psychologists and Neuroscientists have developed to determine hoe humans read is to observe people who have suffered some form of brain damage and have thereby incurred some form of reading disability. This disability is known as acquired dyslexia.
From the study of such patients several variations of a basic model have been developed to highlight the way in which the written word is processed in the brain. The model is subdivided in to two main processing routes, the Non Lexical Route and the Lexical route.
A model produced based on theories from Coltheart (1981) shows that there are several routes to speech production in the brain. The eye first identifies the printed w ....
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Do Cleaning Chemicals Clean As Well After They Have Been Frozen
423 Words - 2 Pages.... of
heavy and light substances which breaks down the food. The researcher feels that
the same end result may happen with the cleaning materials.
Experimentation
Test Concept:
In order to determine weather the glaciation process affected the
cleaning chemicals, it is first important to establish its potency prior to
freezing. Accordingly, two test sets were created by the researcher. The purpose
of the test was to determine how well the chemicals could break down household
grease before and after the substances were frozen. The first test set would
focus on unfrozen chemicals, while the second was set up for previously frozen
chemicals.
The Test:
To start the exper ....
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Genetic Disorders
804 Words - 3 Pages.... Single-gene disorders result from errors within an individual gene. An
example of one would be Huntington’s disease. This condition affects 1 in
10,000 and usually doesn’t affect the person until they are 30 or 40 years old. A person with this disease develops uncontrolled movements and may have
problems with coordination, thinking, and judgment. A weakening of the
nerve cells in the brain causes these symptoms and later results in death.
Another single-gene disorder is the Tay Sachs Disease. People who
inherit the faulty Tay Sachs gene lack a crucial enzyme that is needed to break
down fatty substances in brain and nerve cells. As a result, these ....
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The Physics Of A Crystal
331 Words - 2 Pages.... If the corners of a cube are cut off, the result is a polyhedron with six octagonal faced and eight triangular ones.
Aside from the isometric system, there is also; a tetragonal, orthorhombic, monoclinic, triclinic and hexagonal system.
Crystals may form when a solution of a substance evaporates. Crystals may also form when a vapor or molten substance solidifies.
Allotropes are different forms of the same element. For Example, oxygen has two allotropes, normal oxygen and ozone. Pure carbon also has two allotropes, diamond and graphite. A crystal of diamond is in fact a single giant molecule in which every carbon atom is linked to four other, by four equal, strong bonds. ....
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome And Fetal Alcohol Effects
1444 Words - 6 Pages.... decreased adipose tissue, and other identifiable facial features. Additionally, 20% to 50% of affected children demonstrate a variety of other birth defects, including cardiac anomalies, hemangiomas, and eye and ear anomalies. [2,4,15,16]
Even in the absence of growth retardation or congenital abnormalities, children born to women
who drank alcohol excessively during pregnancy appear to be at increased risk for attention deficit
disorders with hyperactivity, fine-motor impairment, and clumsiness as well as more subtle delays in
motor performance and speech disorders. [4] These findings have been referred to as fetal alcohol
effects (FAE).
As recently described, FAS and FAE ....
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The Planet Mars
742 Words - 3 Pages.... for the
cost of fuel is simply to much to reckon with. And , probably the most
important, how to keep the space craft fueled. A consideration has been to
drop off fuel deposits on Mars for the trip home. But there are still many
questions left open.
The most recent of NASA’s plan, is this... They’ll use 3 different
space ships: A habitat lander, a cargo lander, and a crew transport
vehicle. The CTV carries them to the habitat lander. They land on Mars,
and do their business. When they’re done, the habitat lander takes them
back up to orbit where they meet back up with their CTV, waiting patiently
in orbit, that takes them back home.
The money issue is bein ....
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Lions
582 Words - 3 Pages.... to 9 (5.6 miles) kilometers away, is usually uttered before the animals hunt in the evening, after a successful hunt, and again in the early morning.
Habitat & Human Impact
once ranged throughout Africa and from Europe to Iran and India. By 1900 were no longer found in Syria; today Asiatic are limited to the Gìr Sanctuary in India. also roam Africa south of the Sahara, particularly the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and the Kruger National Park in South Africa. This drastic reduction in range came about as humans and domestic livestock spread into savanna lands. Because live in open areas, they are easily shot by hunters and herders.
fur coats are a highly prize ....
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