Essays on Fraction

INTRODUCTION

It is the belief of most people that when stronger law enforcements are applied, it will help in getting the drugs off the market, thereby making the streets to become safe. However, the evidence that exists with the Drug Abuse Council challenges this belief. The council confirmed that an increase in the price of one bag of street heroin in any given month from $7 to $9, there would be an increase in the number of revenue-raising crimes from 11,000 per month to 12,000 per month due to heroin trade alone (Friedman 1).

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Fashion and food

1. Executive summary The clothing and the foot ware market in Saudi Arabia performs quite well due to the thriving economy and the high levels of the disposable incomes in the country. The unemployment rates are quite low, a fact which has contributed to the growth of the fashion and food markets. Available information at the end of 2015 indicates that the leading fashion brands in the country increased the number of the fashion brands in their portfolio as the customers raised to demand quality and more luxurious brands. As a result, the retailers have expanded the outlets across ...

Introduction

Statistics is a branch of mathematics, aimed at collecting and analyzing data via different methods such as analysis of variance, kurtosis, skewness or regression analysis. Nowadays, statistics helps processing data with a help of creating various charts that in turn help visualizing complex data sets. There are two major types of statistics, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Descriptive and inferential statistics require proper hypothesis formation and thus proper selection of the statistical tests that in turn have to be analyzed and interpreted successfully.

Descriptive Statistics

Descriptive statistics implies application of various coefficients that simplify process of data processing and aggregation (Trochim, ...

Abstract

Heart failure (2.6% prevalent worldwide) is a complex clinical syndrome, resulting from a structural or functional cardiac disorder and impairing ventricular filling or ejection capability. The current case of a 59-year-old male patient admitted on August 18, 2016 due to worsening shortness of breath and bilateral left extremity edema (one week) involved an existing diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2). Physical and clinical profiles indicate a comorbidity between heart failure (HF) and DM2. Laboratory and imaging findings were not indicated, while diagnosis was based on the NYHA Classification guidelines. A review of literature revealed three crucial weaknesses in the diagnosis. ...

Health care standards have been evolving over time. A plethora of processes and forces take part in igniting the developments. These changes could be ad hoc, systematic or even consensual. At the bottom lurks a well-established organizational structure whose object is to review the performance of the standards and propose advancement where circumstances so require. However, certain areas lag, occasioning serious inefficiencies to the system. Often, the legal framework is a serious undoing and affects the realization of these standards. Besides, diverse standards contain varying recommendations, and this tends to atrophy the efforts therewith. Perhaps a biggest of all ...

Adding and Subtracting Fractions with unlike denominators and multiplying fractions

Hi friend! I am Mary. I have a few guests coming over, so I thought to bake some cookies. The recipe calls for 12 cup of brown sugar and 34 cup of white sugar. Let’s calculate the total amount of sugar I need? Firstly, we ensure that the fractions to be added must have a common denominator. In our case, the denominators are unlike and consequently, we will make an equivalent fraction. Let’s start working: x 2 12 = 24 x 2 Now, the newly produced fraction for brown sugar and the quantity for white sugar are expressed ...

Fed is the US central bank, and it is concerned mainly with managing the circulation of money in the economy (Banks para 1). It supplies the currency to the economy by regulating how the banking systems lend money to the public. Additionally, the Fed receives the deposits from other deposit- taking institutions since it is statutory requirement that the banks maintain a certain deposit with the Fed. This system often known as fractional-reserve system ensures that the banking system has enough cash (liquidity) to meet their financial obligations. The Fed can raise or lower the banking system’s reserve ...

The Solow Model

For long, the concept of economic change has been interesting economists. The reasons why some of the countries are poor while others are rich or even the understanding of why some nations grow faster than others has constantly disturbed the understanding of most economists. The theory of economic growth has been put upfront in explaining the growth indices of different nations. In its place, the theory of economic growth aims at explaining whether poor countries can grow faster than their rich counterparts, catch up with them and close their income gaps, that is converge. Elaborated by Trevor Swan and ...

Abstract

In June 2016, the Pentagon reviewed and revised the Department of defense’s accession disqualifications with the effect of lifting the ban on transgender populations from serving in the military, but the debate on the suitability of the new policy has grown even more heated. This paper argues that barring transgender individuals from serving their nation in the most selfless way possible is at odds with both the constitution and the values that the military fights to defend. Given the large number of transgender personnel already serving or having served in the military, there is no reason to believe ...

Colonization is a process in which imperial power systems dominate a region and its components. It features, among other things, cultural domination, political subjugation, religious assimilation and economic exploitations. The colonists used these measures as tools of winning control of the helpless people. Colonization has a close link to massive exploitation and assimilations of new cultures and it further involves actual or threat of use of force. The colonizers were formidable icons and commanded loyalty through aggression. In light of colonialism, established cultures disintegrated. On the case of Britain emperialism,Tarique noted that, “as one of its legacieshas been ...

The human brain is a complex organ tasked with different cognitive functions. There are various categories of mental processes among them include, thought, perception and attention. The brain is able to perform several tasks simultaneously; the cognitive functions of the brain, which are both voluntary and non-voluntary, can happen at a go. However when performing specific tasks, and especially those that require concentration more of our attention is required. Research has shown that even the slightest distraction in the fraction of a second can make quite an impact on our lives. Whether one is out driving, or even something ...

Patterns of Inheritance

A homozygous brown mink was crossed with a silverblue mink. Brown (B) is dominant to silverblue. There were 9 offspring. What color were they? (B) Two of the offspring were mated. What would the ratio of brown to silverblue offspring be? What fraction of the offspring will be homozygous brown? Heterozygous? Homozygous recessive?

Let B represent the allele for brown color and b represent the allele for silver blue

Punnet square between homozygous brown mink and silver mink homozygous brown mink X Silver mink bb X BB

All the 9 offspring were brown

Mating two of the offspring Punnet square showing f1 generation will be as follows Bb X Bb Ratio of brown to silverblue is 3: 1 Fraction of homozygous ...

Introduction

The United States is one of the most developed countries, but it is also one of the countries with the highest level of income inequality. According to research, more than half of the nation’s income goes to only 5% of the population, while the remaining half is shared by the 95%. One way of measuring a nation’s income inequality is through the Gini coefficient. The Gini coefficient measures income inequality on a scale of 0 to 1 wherein 0 corresponds to total equality; a scenario wherein everyone is earning the same amount while 1 corresponds to total ...

Introduction

The distinction between how the West and the East control their local affairs, and how they organize their institutions is enormous. In a normal context, though, even two states in similar vicinity exhibit major differences in individual economic policies, religious inclination, and political systems. Notwithstanding that, it is important to appreciate the similarities and dissimilarities that manifest due to the location in certain regions. The case of Saudi Arabia and France is a good one to understand how regional influences affect, the systems of government, political institutions, faith and economic policies of a state. For instance, the Saudi Arabia ...

Preece (2013) gives a global definition of lifelong education as a learning concept that encompasses the formal, informal, and non-formal platforms throughout the life of an individual with an aim of obtaining maximum personal, professional, or social development through the acquisition of skills, attitudes, and knowledge. The lifelong education status is the USA is admirable. For the last few decades, America has enjoyed a steady growth in the availability of platforms where citizens can improve their knowledge and skills (Bosworth, 2007). The rise in the education attainment level in the US has contributed to the improvement of lifelong learning ...

Introduction

In the adsorption-membrane hybrid system for ethanol steam reforming: Thermodynamics analysis by Dang, Amornchai, Yaneeporn, and Suttichai, (2011, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy), the authors seek to explain how an adsorption-membrane hybrid system, which uses a carbon (IV) oxide as an adsorbent can be used to eliminate unwanted carbon (IV) oxide in the hydrogen separation process. The authors aimed at improving the ethanol steam reforming performance through comparison of thermodynamic analysis that comprised of adsorptive, as well as membrane reactor. Then the authors were able to find that membrane separation process for the hydrogen removal had a higher impact ...

Arsenicosis is a medical condition that results from increased levels of arsenic elements in the bod and it is a global health concern that many states are vehemently fighting to eradicate. A study in 2007 noted that over 137 million people globally are victims of arsenic poisoning and many more face risks of exposure. For instance, the situation in Bangladesh has been alarming, where arsenic poisoning dates many decades back. Apparently, it has a population of over 156.6 million citizens and at least 90 percent face a chronic risk of exposure of the arsenic poisoning (Khan et al., 2003). ...

Performance and Compensation Management

Over the years, World Bank has been termed to be one of the most competent organizations all over the world. It can be viewed as a cooperative with up to 189 countries members. These stakeholders are then represented by a Board of Governors who happens to be the crucial legislators. Normally, the members of the board are countries’ ministers of development or finance. Usually, it is the role of the governors to assign precise obligations to 25 Executive Directors within the organization. This group’s primary objective is to finance developments that improve the economy of the member states. ...

Percentages are very useful in day to day activities and can be a handy way of writing fractions, making comparisons and describing change. For example, in a class test where a student scores 7 points out of a possible 10, and as a fraction, this is expressed as 7/10. The same can also be expressed as a percentage where the fraction 7/10 is multiplied by 100 percent. In this case 7/10*100%= 70%. Therefore, the student scored 70 percent of the total mark in the test. On the other hand, percentages can also be used to describe change. For ...

LIST YOUR INSTRUCTOR’S NAME

LIST THE COURSE LIST THE DATE THE ESSAY IS FILED Assessing the Revolutionary War Introduction Americans have been told consistently glowing profiles of the Founding Fathers. To many this courageous group embodied the best of humanity and projected an optimistic future for America. This brief essay assesses the American Revolutionary War – the views of the Founding Fathers, causes of the war, the genesis of the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence, the role of Native American Indians and the impact of the war on today’s view of the Founders.

The myths surrounding the War must be replaced with a more complete and balanced view.

Views of Founding Fathers Zinn writes colonial leaders were ...

Introduction

Starbucks Corporation is a company founded in Seattle, Washington in 1971 and is a premier retailer, roaster and marketer of specialty coffees around the world. (Annual Report 2015) In 2015, Starbucks reported a staff of approximately 180,000 employees over 19,760 company licensed and operated retail stores in over 60 countries worldwide. Roasted and handcrafted high-quality and premium coffees, tea and fresh food items as well as other beverages make up their product mix.(Annual Report 2015) Starbucks also sells coffee products and tea, as well as licenses its trademarks through multiple other channels like grocery, licensed stores ...

Using Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Creation of Naturing Life

Nature life is a beauty perfect in the eyes of people. In fact, Coco Chanel quoted the words, “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous” (Armour 1). The pursuit of beauty is a topic always applicable to life among women, even to those who lived thousands of years ago. Thus, there is always the question on how women of long ago maintain their beautiful appearance, as reflected in the Chinese customs, which is apparently very different from the ways of the modern times that uses science and technology. Women of the olden times did not have access ...

Philosophy

Introduction Man has always gazed at the stars and attempted to answer the question about the existence of any life anywhere else in the Universe apart from Earth. While for the better part of the first two thousand years After Christ, there was a popular assumption that Man is unique in the Universe, the acceptance of the ‘Copernican Principle’ (Tyson, 2003) in the 1500s, when Nicholas Copernicus put the sun back in its proper place at the center of the solar system, propelled the notion that man may not be unique after all. Given the fact that the three ...

Abstract

Transformation remains, and hugely significant tool in extending the borders of life sciences and medicine. It can be referred as fixing intracellular DNA into a bacteria or organism through the vector, thus transforming it. This paper uses plasmid pUC18, self-reproducing circular/spherical strands of genes that may be modified. After the bacteria absorb the vector, some proteins not usually synthesized will occur. In this study, a system has been developed to monitor the transmittance of different DNA (genes) from a genetically transformed strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to E. coli. This mechanism is centered on yeast strains that contain several integrated ...

Conflicts in the African continent are notorious with their complexity. There are host of reasons for that. These include the complicated history of Africa, especially of the last several centuries when existing divergences were accentuated by the presence of colonists who imposed new circumstances and conditions. These also include many natural reasons stemming from climate conditions and geopolitical situation of Africa. These include as well the ethnical and tribal divergences that turned out to be the major fueling factor in the conflict that set it ablaze for almost fifteen years. There is one thing I am going to make ...

Portion Distortion Quiz Analysis

When we think of portion in general we think of the amount of something. Such as the amount of food we eat or a fraction of that. Americans face a challenge considering we over eat and take in more than we usually should. Not because we want to but because we can and there is nothing and no one to stop us. Portions deals with a smaller fraction of what we usually eat, meaning eat less or eat smaller sizes of the same foods. That way we have control over the foods and substances we intake instead of the ...

Article #1:

The article focussed on the breeding behaviours of emperor penguins that are recently discovered with the help of satellites. Mostly it is believed that penguins lay their eggs on sea ice that is fast and stable and that remains intact under the chick fledge. Fretwell and co-workers conducted this study on forty-six colonies emperor penguins. The recent observation revealed that few colonies of emperor penguins breed on ice-shelves instead of sea ice. Due to rapid climate changes and the incidence of ice melting the penguin population has declined and very close to extinction. It is a big concern that ...

Panther I.D.:

“The expression of ampicillin resistance and luciferase enzyme genes by E. coli transformation using the pUC18 and lux plasmids” Abstract The transformation process allows the uptake of DNA from the environment, with the incorporation and expression of genes. During this process, changes in the DNA of the receptor cell occur, producing some selective advantages in some cases, such as resistance to antibiotics. pUC18 and lux plasmids were used to determine the transformation process in Escherichia coli. Cells were made competent by the addition of calcium chloride and heat shock in order to induce the incorporation of the ...

The assessment of learning and development among young children is increasingly gaining popularity. Both government and private organizations have been involved in the development of programs aimed at enhancing the readiness of all young children. The most targeted are children who hail from economically disadvantaged communities and homes as well as children with special needs. The programs have been designed with the goal of helping the young children to enhance their academic, social, and language skills through effective early care and education. Besides, the programs also constitute an avenue where young children with problems associated with development can be ...

Psychology: Exploring the Relations of Micro Expression to Professional Performance

Psychology: Exploring the Relations of Micro Expression to Professional Performance

According to the studies conducted by Albert Mehrabian in 1971, in communication process, around 93% of human communication takes place through non-verbal mode. He divided the communication process into three parts; words (7%), tone of the voice (38%), and body language 55% (Mehrabian, 1981). Among non-verbal modes of communication the commonly used mode is the facial expressions. The face of the person expresses his/her emotions. Yet, some part of emotions is sometimes not clear to everyone. We all are not experts in identifying each and every expression of the ...

Re: A column to separate an Acetone-Methanol mixture

The objective of the project was to optimize the design of a column used to process a supply stream containing 35 percent acetone at 30oC. The optimized design should turn out a distillate product containing 0.75 mole fraction of acetone and 0.0010 fraction of bottoms acetone. The outcome of the experiment produced a distillate product containing 0.0079 molar fraction of acetone.

The molar fraction of acetone in the first inlet stream was determined to be 0.14 lbmol/min. Also, the total flow rate of the second inlet stream and the total gas flow rate were determined to be 61.84 lbmoles/min ...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a fundamental idea about the phenomenon of Supernovae and their significance in understanding the nature of our universe. This paper shall be trying to make an in-depth analysis of different types of supernovae that had been observed in universe and also the factors that cause them. Even though the paper does not go deeper into the technical aspects of observing supernovae and the characteristics of their each type, a significant amount of study has been conducted to make an understanding of how they are observed and the characteristics that make each ...

Stock market macro analysis and micro evaluation

Stock market’s macro analysis The fluctuations in the security markets relate to variations in expectations within the collective economy. Prices of the government bonds and the investment-grade company bonds are all determined by intensity of the interest rates that is highly influenced by Federal Reserve guidelines and overall economic practices. The aggregate prices of stock reflect investor prospect about a corporate performance relating to its earnings, the cash flows, as well as the needed return by the investors. These perspective are all heavily influenced by economic outlook (Bodie, Kane & Marcus, 2014). In that respect, the macro analysis is ...

Abstract

In this lab, an RC circuit was set up and powered using a square wave from a function generator. The output was manipulated and examined and the results viewed on an oscilloscope. On the oscilloscope, the energy was seen in the way it is stored, delivered and manipulated in circuit elements. In the lab session also, the usefulness of an oscilloscope as a high-speed voltmeter was learned. How it monitors signals occurring in time intervals of microseconds and milliseconds.

Introduction

Electric circuits perform by separating the positive (+) and the negative (-) electricity. It works against the Coulomb forces of attraction ...

Discuss health care delivery and health care policies and the way in which the complex issues surrounding health care can be influenced by the adult-gerontology nurse practitioner

Health care delivery and health care policies are important to the nursing industry and to patients who access health care. For many persons, health literacy is vital to the overall outcome of health care practices. Without health literacy, health care persons will be unable to provide suitable care for in preventive services. Arguably, preventive services are important and they provide patients with better health as a reduced cost. In order to promote ...

Government and Universal Health Care: Obligation or Discretionary?

Health care is a hotly-contested issue domestically. When President Barack Obama promoted and signed into law the Affordable Care Act in 2010, which sought to overhaul the country’s health care system to make it more affordable, voices of dissent could be heard from all corners of the country. Yet, the Obamacare is not even a true universal health care (UHC) system because it does not provide or ensure that every person in the country gets health care coverage. What it does is that it broadens the choices for people allowing people to get more affordable health care coverage. ...

Interview

Company: SIDEARM Sports Specific focus of the company: Provision of software and technology needed to power livestats, websites, and video streaming for over 600 high schools, colleges, and universities across North America.

Engagements other than business: Teaching in the university as an Associate Professor

Education: A graduate of iSchool at Syracuse University Previous work experience: Teaching Personality: Practical and fact-minded with undoubted reliability. Very perceptive, energetic, and smart person who really enjoy living on the edge (16 Personalities, 2016). Motivations: Changing the way people experience the college sport through SIDEARM. Also teaching and/ or mentoring college students. When, how, and why the company was founded: Company established in 1996. It started ...

Today, photography is an art and a profession both. It is one of the most popular hobbies in the world and a multi-billion dollar industry. Looking back in history, one gets insight on how the fascinating techniques in photography were created and how those years of experimenting and efforts led to further improvement. There have been notable photographers in the history of photography and its progress. The collecting knowledge and increasing experimentation associated with knowledge and imagination led to the exploration of new domains. By the late nineteenth century, the photographic media experienced a shift when the demarcation between ...

Wet Sieve Analysis

Wet sieving analysis of soils is used to analyze particles that contain large amounts of silt and clay. The soil particles are washed to ensure that the fine-grained particles are separated from the coarse-grained ones. The extremely fine particles normally clump together and have difficulty in passing the # 200 sieve. In this experiment, the classification of soils is done in order to determine the percentage of soil particle that passes the # 200 sieve. The Wet analysis is used to determine the fine particles in the soil sample (“45Th Anniversary of The Journal, 16)

Materials

Mortar and pestle Mechanical shaker Squeeze ...

Introduction

Using membrane for gas separation by numerous industries and fields is highly associated with easy operability, low energy costs, light weight and compactness of the process.

Organizational need

There is an organizational need by Learning Curve Consultants’ client to generate relatively pure nitrogen and oxygen gasses within the organization for the application in various processes through the use of high-pressure air as feed. The client has the need to investigate the possibility of employing the use of polymer membranes to produce both nitrogen and oxygen gasses. As a consequence, the customer has presented the team with two bench scale gas membrane ...

Introduction:

The rheocasting process entails the application of semi-solid slurry in metal casting. The process has numerous benefits that are directly connected to solid fractioning during the duration of casting. The process is also known as the semi-liquid casting because it involves the usage of the slurry in the semi-liquid or semi-solid state. The process can be said to consist of two stages, slurry making and direct slurry casting. The method was first developed by R. Shibata for commercial purposes at Hitachi Co. Ltd (Beeley & Smart, 2004).

Rheocasting process description:

The process involves preparation of high quality non-dendritic slurry through the application of ...

Article 1: Radiation Associated Brainstem Injury

The tolerance of the central nervous system (CNS) to radiation treatment is significant to patient under treatment for metastatic or primary diseases associated with neck, brain and head. In most cases, brainstem injury is graded by most widespread toxicity criterion of the Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program based on symptoms. The first grade is considered mild, the second grade is moderate and without the capacity to interfere with daily living activities. The third grade presents extreme interference with the activities of daily living while the fourth grade is life threatening. The manifestation of severe radiation therapy induced central nervous system ...

Question 1

A decimal number is a modified way of expressing a fraction. A fraction shows a number as a part of a whole figure. For example, 2/3 means when a quantity is divided into 3 equal parts we have to take 2 parts of it. When this fraction is expressed in terms of fractions of 10, 100, 100 it becomes a decimal fraction. For example we can write 2/5 as 4/10. Thus 4/10 is decimal fraction. We can write 4/10 as 0.4 . This is a decimal number. In a similar way we can write 13 9/100 as 13.09.

Question 2

PEMDAS stands ...

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Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT scintigraphy) utilizes nuclear medicine along with gamma rays to get three-dimensional images (NLM, n.d.) of an internal part of the body such as heart with an objective of diagnosing a problem.

SPECT

In SPECT, a gamma-emitting radioisotope is administered into the bloodstream of a patient with the help of injection (Boyd, 2014; Hademenos, 1998). The radioisotope is, usually, a simple soluble ion as, for example, isotope of gallium(III) (Sharma, Prior, Belinsky, Kruh, & Piwnica-Worms, 2005; Wadas, Wong, Weisman, & Anderson, 2010). Most often, a marker radioisotope is also bound to a particular ligand ...

Heart failure is a pathophysiologic condition characterized by the heart’s inability to generate sufficient cardiac output, resulting in either inefficient tissue perfusion or increase in the diastolic filling pressure of the left ventricle, or both, which lead to increased pulmonary capillary pressure (McCance, Huether, Brashers, & Rote, 2014). Heart failure is a leading cause of death in the US (McCance et al., 2014; Mozaffarian et al., 2015). American Heart Association has estimated that in 2013, cardiovascular diseases were responsible for 30.8% of all deaths in the US, or 222.9 per 100,000 deaths (Mozaffarian et al., 2015). The 2013 ...

Background

Solow Growth Model is one of the basic Macroeconomic model in the neoclassical era. It was first introduced by Robert Solow in 1956 (Verner, 1995). The model tries to explain the long term economic growth of an economy. The dependent variable of the Solow Model is long term rate of economic growth (output) and independent variables are capital accumulation, labor (also expressed in terms of population growth) and increase in productivity (technological innovation) (Verner, 1995).

Figure: Solow Equation: Y- Output, A- Productivity, And K – Capital Accumulation and L – Labor Growth (Boianovsky and Hoover, 2009) The main assumption of Solow ...

Impact of the new proposal on transparency

With regards to the operations of organizations involving in lease, it is clear that the proposed rule of including leases in balances sheet will foster transparency in reporting. The first instance that explains the effectiveness of lease accounting can be directed to the observed dominance of leasing. Leasing is a way for the subject entity to access financing and assets besides, minimizing risk exposure associated with ownership of asset. This prevalence indicates that leasing now forms a significant fraction of company’s operations and thereby influences the profitability of the subject organizations. This means that the users of financial ...

Abstract

This lab report discusses the Cellular Location of Metabolic Enzymes. Regarding methodology, the experiment was conducted in three sessions during the first session liver homogenate and cell functions were prepared. The first session was carried out by homogenizing the liver in an isotonic media. The Maltase and lactate dehydrogenase were determined in the second session, and protein concentrations were estimated in the third session. The Maltase dehydrogenase (MDH) and Lactase dehydrogenase (LDH) were used to catalyze the reactions in session two. The biuret reaction was used to estimate the protein in the last session. The relationship between absorbance at ...

Income Statement Vertical Analysis

The gross profit as a fraction of total revenue (gross profit margin) was 60 percent in 2012. There was a slight improvement to 61 percent in 2013 and 2014. Selling and administrative expenses was constant at 37 percent of revenues for all the three years. However, other expenses increased by one percent in each year between 2012 and 2014. The income before taxes as a fraction of revenues declined slightly between 2012 and 2013 by one percent before declining by 4 percent to 20 percent in 2014. Similarly, the consolidated net income as a fraction of the revenues declined ...

Selection from an 8 year-period of pulmonary valve replacement and cross sectional follow up of a commercially available biological valve, assessed with established and a new method

What This Thesis Is About

Pulmonary valve replacement is a procedure necessary in many congenital heart defects and in-valve degeneration cases. Surgical results are excellent, but the longevity of artificial valves is very limited. Our goal was to give a retrospective overview of methods and results from the year 2000 until 2008 at Rikshospital, as well as the prospective five year follow-up of a biological valve made from bovine pericardium. Follow up included clinical examination with ECG, echocardiography, spirometry, treadmill testing, echocardiography ...

The website contains an explanation of the overall relationship between, decimals, fractions, and percentages. It further provides background points for teaching. The website provides a description of the relationship between the three mentioned mathematical arguments.

It explains that decimals are fractions that have been written in different way and that fractions are decimals written in different way i.e. decimals represents fractions in a different writing. For example, 1/100 =0.01 and 4/1000= 0.004. This means that the fraction 1/100 is equivalent to the decimal 0.01 and that the fraction 4/1000 is equivalent to the decimal 0.004.

The website helps in understanding of ...

Pulmonary contusion (PC) is a common consequence of blunt trauma to the chest. PC occurs in 30-75% of cases of chest trauma, and in many cases this is further complicated by severe bone injuries of the chest wall. Despite much research into the subject, mortality and morbidity has not significantly improved in the past three decades. Advances in imaging have similarly failed to have any impact on outcomes.

The consequences of PC are manifold and include both local and systemic effects. Some of the local effects are: laceration of lung tissue, hemorrhage-filled alveoli, reduced compliance, increase in shunt fraction leading ...

Recent statistics have reported the increasing prevalence rate of obesity and other lifestyle-related diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases in both developed and developing countries (De Onis et al., 2010). Albeit, considered to be lifestyle-associated in etiology, the occurrence of these diseases is solely evident among adults but alarmingly also among children.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has documented the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity worldwide. In 2010, 43 million children were diagnosed to be overweight or obese. A significant number (35 million) of these children lived in developing countries. The worldwide prevalence rate of obesity among children ...

Prognostic Cancer Biomarkers

The genetic diversity associated with cancer cells are shocking huge; and identifying a suitable prognostic marker is a real challenge. Prognostic cancer markers aims to evaluate objectively a patient’s overall outcome, response to treatment and chances of cancer recurrence. Prognostic markers can also help to select patients for a particular treatments and help predict the beneficial effect of the therapy. DNA, RNA, epigenetic patterns, signaling pathways, proteins, and metabolic biomolecules have been used as prognostic cancer markers. (Mehta et al., 2010)

Given below are few prognostic biomarkers commonly used in cancer medicine:

1. Beta tubulin: Beta tubulin regulates microtubule assembly in the cell. Class III tubulin are expressed by tumor of both neuronal ...

Major Focus of the Article

The smartphone industry affects everyone in the business world. So much business is done on smartphones today that they are taking over the world—Apple’s iPhone is arguably one of the most popular phones available in today’s market, according to Forbes reporter Spence (2015). Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android accounted for 96.3% of the smartphones shipped in 2014, indicating that there was a serious corner on the market for Apple. The Windows operating system for smartphones was able to control only a tiny fraction of the market at 2.7% (Spence, 2015). This indicates that between Apple and ...

Introduction

It is not surprising to know that girls are better students than boys. From common knowledge, this is now a statistically proved claim in most parts of the world, including the United Kingdom. There have been numerous studies undertaken in the past few decades that have focused on this question, and nearly all the results point to the same conclusion: as far as school education is concerned, girls outperform (always have) boys. The aim of this paper is to analyze some of these studies, their methodologies, and the corresponding results, from the perspective of theories in education. Though the ...

Certain elements involved in the geochemical and biogeochemical cycling are of great concern due to their limited availability both naturally or through industrial manufacture of the compounds involved in the cycles. Some of the processes involved are chemical reactions with other elements or substances. Some of these reactions are irreversible chemical reactions. This implies once the reaction has taken place, the elements are removed from natural cycle and they cannot be replaced again. As such, the more the cases of irreversible reactions, the greater the rate of reduction of these elements from the environment. Ultimately, there could be less ...

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Provincial Health Services

Introduction Canada along with several other countries follow a public health care system that takes care of all basic health care services required by its citizens. The health care system of Canada has undergone a lot of changes since its conception. Several reforms have shaped the current health care system to turn out as a publicly funded system. The health care system is a provincial responsibility and is comprised of ten provincial and three territorial plans. The entire system is known as "Medicare" to Canadians. Despite various reforms, the main motto of the health care system has remained the same, i.e. to ...

Introduction

Initially there were beliefs that, MMPs are jointly able to degenerate all constituents making up the extracellular matrix (ECM) together with basement membrane that confines their operations to tissue reconstruction as well as the preservation. Nonetheless, the contemporary studies also signify that MMP-1 is responsible for controlling the production or else the activation of the chemokines. At this point, it is critical to understand that MMP-1 is among other MMPs. Similarly, the knowledge holds it that MMP- 1 cleaves a peptide bond beforehand a residue comprising of a hydrophobic adjacent chain, for instance Met and Leu. The other sideways chains cleaved ...

MODULE 1

2. Displays Histograms are used to show distributions of variables while bar charts are used to compare variables. Histograms plot quantitative data with ranges of the data grouped into bins or intervals while bar charts plot categorical data.

Whereas an example of a bar graph data would show what percentage of people with a certain hair type have a certain eye color. 3. Linear regression We are comparing the birth rate and the life expectancy in third world countries such as Somalia, Tanzania, Zambia, adding a few developed countries in the end such as France and the Netherlands. It can ...