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Ebola Virus
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1098.... about 300,00 of its inhabitants died from some sickness.
Some people now believe that this great plague was really Ebola.
The first recorded outbreak of the Zaire string of the Ebola virus was in Zaire, in 1976. The doctors didn't know how to treat it and that meant that
they didn't know how to contain it either. As infected people met in public places the virus spread. In Western Sudan, the same year, the Sudan string
of the Ebola virus emerged with similar results. Both casts together had about a total of 550 infections and around 340 deaths (about 60% death rate). .....
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Early Health And Medicine
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 419.... of these would include pasteurized milk(you can see where it received it's name), bacteria, fermentation, yeast, and rabies:to name a few. Within a year of Pasteur's remedy for rabies, he treated and cured maore than 2,000 patients.
A German pathologist named Robert Kock (1843-1910) studied a disease called diptheria. Koch learned htat diptheria bacteria or bacilli could only be found in samples from a patients throat. Although Koch could not understand how diptheria was somehow affecting the victim's heart. Finally, Koch concluded that the bacilli produced a toxin that cir .....
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Mitochondria 2
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 752.... and so it maintains a closed space within the cell. The many infoldings of the cristae are responsible for providing the mitochondrion with a large surface area which enhances the productivity of respiration.
The inner membrane and outer membrane effectively divide the mitochondria into two internal compartments. The space located between the outer and inner mitochondrial membrane is called the intermembrane space. The space enclosed by the inner membrane is called the mitochondrial matrix. It is here that many of the metabolic steps of cellular respiration occur.
The inter .....
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Greenhouse Gases And Consequences
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1452.... (CFCs), Ozone (O3), and Nitrous Oxide (N2O).
It all seems very straightforward: greenhouse gases trap the sun's heat, warming the planet sufficiently for life to exist. There is, however, one problem: human activity has dramatically increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Over the last two centuries the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has increased quite significantly, mainly as a result of burning fossil fuels for industrial purposes. For example, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have increased from 280-285 parts per mill .....
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Atention Defficit Disorder
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1395.... Many ADD children will tell you how annoying it is when someone around them is talking.
People with ADD are impulsive meaning to act without thinking. In one case a five-year old with ADD almost drowned when he went to a pool with his father. He saw people jumping into the pool and thought it would be fun. He jumped right in without remembering that he can't swim. He was pulled from the bottom of the pool several minutes later.
Hyperactivity is a real problem for people with ADD especially in children. Parents will usually describe them as always on the go. ADD girl .....
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Lyme Disease
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2971.... areas likely to harbor ticks. They also found that the children's first symptoms typically started in the summer months coinciding with the height of the tick season. Several of the patients interviewed reported having a skin rash just before developing their arthritis, and many also recalled being bitten by a tick at the rash site.
Further investigations resulted in the discovery that tiny deer ticks infected with a spiral-shaped bacterium or spirochete (which was later named Borrelia burgdorferi) were responsible for the outbreak of arthritis in Lyme.
In Europe, a ski .....
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Polymers
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 397.... the sections proposed space stations. have also been used in cars, including the Chevrolet Camaro and the Pontiac Fiero.
New are being created with more strength and flexibility by combing two chemically different and producing a block copolymer. Combinations of block co and composites and intended for use in booster rockets and in materials of Earth-orbiting installations.
Most common are usually solid, but a new class of is being introduced in a liquid crystal state. Although these still have the physical characteristics of liquid, they are structured more like .....
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Psychology
Number of pages: 13 | Number of words: 3428.... only concerned about the opposing team. If you do tune into a certain person this may be considered selective attention. Selective attention is the focusing on conscious awareness on a particular stimulus. (Reference) This means that at any moment we focus our awareness only on a limited aspect of all that we are capable experiencing. When I use selective attention my attention is on the coach and other players on the field. The coach or my teammates may be telling me something important about what I should do, or a player I should watch out for. My attention needs to .....
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