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The Spread Of AIDS
Number of pages: 13 | Number of words: 3360

.... as the 1917/18 influenza pandemic which killed over 21 million people, including 50,000 Canadians. Having been lulled into false security by modern antibiotics and vaccines about our ability to conquer infections, the Western world was ill prepared to cope with the advent of AIDS in 1981. (Retro- spective studies now put the first reported U.S. case of AIDS as far back as 1968.) The arrival of a new and lethal virus caught us off guard. Research suggests that the agent responsible for AIDS probably dates from the 1950s, with a chance infection of humans by a modified Simian .....


Teeth And Diseases Affecting Your Teeth
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 729

.... age of 6 -by 32 permanent teeth.: 4 central incisors, 4 lateral incisors, 4 cuspids, 8 bicuspids (premolars), and 12 molars. The 4 wisdom teeth develop after the other 8 molars, as the jaws increase in size. If this increase is insufficient, the wisdom teeth may become impacted, that is wedged between the jawbone and other teeth, sometimes resulting in pain and inflammation. The upper teeth, called maxillary, and the lower teeth, called mandibular, are shaped in such a manner that they interdigitate (fit together) when the jaws are closed. This fit is essential for the teeth to .....


Bipolar Affective Disorder
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2040

.... of mania or depression. Secondary affective disorder refers to patients with preexisting psychiatric illness other than depression or mania (Goodwin, Guze. 1989, p.7 ). Bipolar affective disorder affects approximately one percent or three million persons in the United States, afflicting both males and females. Bipolar disorder involves episodes of mania and depression. The manic episodes are characterized by elevated or irritable mood, increased energy, decreased need for sleep, poor judgment and insight, and often reckless or irresponsible behavior (Hollandswo .....


Stress And How To Manage It
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1155

.... about it. My parents didn't know about him so I couldn't turn to them. I couldn't turn to my boyfriend because he wouldn't understand or care. Dre was the one person I could always turn to, and when I lost him my life changed forever. The death of a loved one is usually considered a life change, but in my case it was much more drastic than that. My life change that has caused me a lot of stress would be my problems with my parents. As I've gotten older we've been arguing about who I am hand how I am supposed to act. It puts a lot of stress on my because I want their respe .....


Wolfgang Kohler's Experiment And Insight Learning
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 517

.... Sultan happened to align the sticks and in a flash of sudden inspiration, fitted the two sticks together and pulled in the banana. Kohler was impressed by Sultan's rapid “perception of relationships” and used the term insight to describe it. He noted that such insights are not learned gradually through reinforced trials. They seemed to occur in a flash when the elements a problem are set up appropriately. In another experiment boxes were put in a room with a banana hanging from the ceiling. The chimps found out that they could stack the boxes on top of one another to .....


Sleepwalking
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 851

.... substance abuse play a larger role. is most common among children from the ages of 4 to 12. Estimates for the percentage of the population which will sleepwalk at least once in their lifetime range quite a bit. Some sources say that most children will walk in their sleep at least once, with 15% of them more regularly. Others claim that 18% of the population is "prone to ". There is consensus, however, on the fact that boys sleepwalk more frequently than girls and that it is between the ages of 11 and 12 that the most cases of are reported. The fact that most children grow .....


Abilities Of People With Disabilities
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 702

.... diets you could try, but why not exercise your right as a victim and strike back at discriminatory employers? You might not lose any weight ,but at least you can get the job you deserve. This is possible because of the courts and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission wants to extend protections under the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act to obese people. In December of 1993 a Federal Appeals Court ruled unanimously to uphold an order that required the state of Rhode Island to pay $100,000 in damages to a 320-lb. woman for not hiring her and .....


Vegetarians
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 803

.... game to eat, they wouldn’t go picking berries and roots. Those who could not or would not eat meat did not survive. Studies have been done by M. J. Lentze, a German who found that vegetarianism causes impaired growth in children five years or younger. Vegan children even fail to grow as well with supplements that exceed the Recommended Daily Allowance. It is true that many vegetables contain a high amount of protein, but the amount is not even close in comparison to meat. To get the same amount of protein from vegetables as you would from just one pound of meat (although m .....



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