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Regulation of Body Temperature

are capable of changing their rate of fire in reaction to changes in temperature. If the blood which passes through the hypothalam...

Eating, Sleeping, Walking, and the Body's Role

joint. "Intact joint position sense is necessary for normal muscle coordination and timing" (Carpenter et al, 1998, p. 262). Add...

Thinking Errors, Research Abilities, and Critical Thinking

in any field is vital to the industrys lifeblood; however, it may mean the difference between life and death within, for example, ...

Definition and Diagnosis of WS Genetic Disorder

difficulty grasping mathematical concepts (Fidler, Hodapp and Dyken, 2002). While not every child with WS fits this profile, a lar...

Examination of Down's Syndrome

of age" (NADS, 2005). This is perhaps due to the fact that women under the age of 35 give birth more often than those over 35 and ...

Anorexia Nervosa and Its Possible Basis in Biology

and anxiety has long been considered indicative of triggering behavior inherent to the eating disorder. An impulsive personality ...

Terminally Ill Patients and Nursing Care

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

TBI and its Effects

TBI is defined by Clark (1996) as: "an acquired injury to the brain caused...

Overview of Polio and the Post Polio Syndrome

In three pages polio and the syndrome which occurs thereafter are the focus of this overview. Two sources are cited in the biblio...

3 Substance Types and Their Effects

addicted to the drug, they are less and less able to deal with the reality of everyday life and often hide away in the false secur...

Human Body and the Impact of Stress

shown to disrupt the metabolism, either speeding it up or slowing it down. There has been recognition of the speeding up of the me...

Overview of Treating Learning Disabilities with Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome

In five pages this research paper examines Dr. Helen Irlen's Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome and how colored lens can assist in the ...

MSP Psychological Disorder

York, smothered her fourth and fifth children, Molly and Noah Hoyt, both children were less than three months old at the time of t...

Williams Syndrome in Children, Problematic Behavior, and Pain Management

behaviours: one of the reasons for the study was to assess whether there were elements of the playschool environment which were tr...

The First 24 Hours in Treating the Closed Fracture

is first the formation of hematoma at the injury site: the bleeding into the site allows the appropriate cells to be carried to th...

Children with Down Syndrome

are smaller than average (Hunter, 1999). Their arms and legs are also shorter in relation to the rest of their bodies, and hands a...

AIDS Adolescents and Nursing Management

viral disease that attacks the human immune system making it ineffective in fighting disease or sickness caused by microbial organ...

Evaluating Amphetamines and Other Drugs Pharmacologically

fact, which bear analysis. Such analysis can go a long way in dispelling the misperceptions and untruths associated with drug use...

Importance of Cardiac Action Potential

procedure not simply passive diffusion. Typically the cell membranes in a living organism are selectively permeable. That is the...

'Peter Pan Syndrome' and Men of Middle Age

members of our society, however, we must force ourselves to separate truth from fiction and to ferret out the reasons within which...

Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Asthma

infants younger than one year (Bozzette, 1996). The virus is extremely potent and has the potential to be deadly (Bozzette, 1996)...

Walker's Battered Women Syndrome and the Frye Rule

be categorised as admissible once it is seen as "generally acceptable" in its field. As Grossman points out, however, since the co...

Battered Child and Battered Woman Syndrome Legal Overview

Lenore Walker which outlined the relationship between the defendants (Mrs. Ibn-Tamas) behavior and the characteristics of a "batte...

Down's Syndrome

and characteristics vary from one child to another and this also has scientists baffled. However a standard physical guideline gen...

Stress and Its Effects

In seven pages this literature review incorporates the hierarchy of needs theory of Abraham Maslow in an examination of stress and...

Wrongful Birth Case Study Appellate Brief

matters and risks, she wanted to take every precaution to make sure that the baby would be alright. She conveyed her concerns to t...

The Clash of Parents and Medical Professionals in 'Baby Owens'

ultrasound or even an abdominal x-ray (National Institute of Health, 2004). Such was the case with Baby Owens. After the ...

'Wendy' Needed by Peter Pan

As well see in this paper, there are many "Wendys" and "Peters" in the world - the Peters need to be taken care of,...

The Legal Defense for Battered Women

To support this assertion, we must first no little more about what BWS is. BWS as a defense was first introduced in court by attor...

Occupational Safety

health and safety and they do this through a variety of educational and compliance initiatives ("Department," 2004). Prevention, i...