Essays on Fraction

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.

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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 ...

Early Canadian Multicultural Policy towards Ethnic Minorities: A Historical Background

It is significant to see that early Canadian multicultural policies towards ethnic minorities must be interpreted in two different outlooks. Firstly, there was a Government official policy towards the French Canadians. Throughout the British colonial era, British authorities generally enforced multicultural policies that were both prejudiced and assimilative with the aim to bring this ethnic group into the British control. Since Confederation, nevertheless, French Canadians were able to gain significant political and legal independence rights. This consisted of some political freedom through the acknowledgment of Quebec as a province, representation in political bodies, and legal language rights. In contrast, there ...

1. When the load on the specimen increases, the compression on the specimen increases. The longitudinal strain increases by increasing of the load value. The young’s modulus gets increases with the longitudinal strain. The load compresses because of the load. 2. When a compressive force acts on the specimen, two types of stain occur one is lateral strain and another strain is the axial strain. The specimen undergoes lateral strain to some extent. The lateral strain occurs due to the overload applied on the specimen, but the specimen undergoes more longitudinal strain than the lateral strain. The specimen ...

- Introduction Radiations such as  - rays, UV rays, etc. have ionizing effects on tissues and have the ability kill cells and inactivate viruses. A detailed analysis of the survival of such cells and viruses are imperative in many fields, including radiation oncology, public health and environmental photobiology. However, the mathematical and statistical tools based on target theory in radiobiology are mentioned in literature (Alpen, 1988, Smith, 1989, Hall, 2000) and are wide in use in the analysis of experimental data involving biophysical mechanisms of the repair of radiation damage. This work demonstrates the use of probabilistic approaches ...

In the real estate, financing has become the most complex element of transactions in both residential and commercial markets. Mortgaging and other financing options drive a multi-billion dollar industry allowing a majority of the home owners to purchase property only a fraction of the price of the property they wish to purchase . Due to the increasing influence of the federal government on the real estate market and the truth that mortgages are a form of investment made the forms required to develop a typical real estate market uniform. Mortgage refers to the art of connoting an instrument signed by the mortgagor and the mortgagee ...

Introduction

One of the frequently asked questions in astronomy is, “are we alone in the universe?” It is hard to believe that we are alone in this universe that is home to billions of stars and innumerable planets and satellites. The astronomical community is divided into two groups in the matter of opinions on this. According to one group of astrophysicists, there are many earth-like objects existing in the universe, and it is only a matter of time before we find out our neighbors. A few astrophysicists, on the other hand, cherish the notion that life on the earth is unique ...

The Current State of Research on New Methods and Technologies for the Safety and Reliability of Assessment of Propellants, Explosives and Pyrotechnics1

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Materials with high energy have in the past and are still in use for both intensive military and civil purposes. Research and studies have been conducted recently to try establishing and inventing new materials likely to have enhanced high performance and that are less sensitive to heat and shock as compared to existing materials. In future military applications have a threshold to be adjusted to. This paper is mainly focusing on the on the advancements, possible formulations of ...

Introduction

Tensile testing is usually conducted to select a material for its application, quality control, and to forecast how the material is likely to react on deployment of different types of forces. The properties evaluated through the tensile test include the ultimate tensile strength, the maximum elongation, X-area reduction and so forth. These evaluations facilitate determination of such properties as Young’s Modulus, yield strength, Poisson’s ratio, and the characteristics of strain hardening [1. 2]. Tensile testing on glass fibre is, thus, performed to determine the quality of the material it contains, and to ascertain its suitability for various applications.

History of Fibre Glass

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Introduction to Modeling of Engineering Systems

The model that my group has developed is based upon the separation and accumulation of solids which flow into a settling tank from a feed steam. During this separation procedure, the solid accumulates into the settling tank and the cleaner liquid product accumulates in a storage tank. The feed stream, containing solid particles in liquid, flows continuously to the settling tank, and solids are thus able to settle to the bottom as the liquid moves upward through the tank. A product stream leaves the tank; this stream contains a smaller fraction of solids than the field stream. Eventually the amount of solids which ...

MEDICINE

Systematic Clearance Extended Calculation Fraction Unbound (fu): 0.5 Clearance by active Secretion (CLsec):5.4/Lhr Fraction reabsorbed (FR): 0.2 Hepatic Extraction Ratio (Eh): 0.1 Calculating the (Vd): Volume of Distribution of drug on administration =Vd=Xo/Co Vd= Xo/Co =300mg/Anti-log1.26 Vd = Xo/Co = 300mg/18.2 ug/ml = 16.5lts Total Systematic Clearance, ClT = ClT=KeVd ClT = KeVd = 5.4/hr x 16.5 lts =0.299/60mins x 1000ml = (4933.5/60)ml/min = 82.23ml/min

Assumptions:

i) The Dose was administered intravenously ii) Co= Drug Plasma Concentration at zero time after it was administered

Therapeutic monitoring

Population pharmacokinetics is the study that focuses on ...

Introduction to Modeling of Engineering Systems

A semi-batch mode operates the solids separation process by accumulating and settling solids in a storage tank. The cleaner product accumulates in the storage tank whereas the feed stream with solids flows into the settling tank. The clean liquid flows upward into the tank leaving the solid particles at the bottom. The product stream from the tank has smaller solids than those in the feed stream. The amount of solids keeps increasing in the settling tank as solids increase in the settling time. The exit stream accumulates in the collection vessel. The solids in the settling tank should be removed ...

Systemic Clearance Extended Calculation

Data: Pharmacokinetic parameters: Fraction unbound (fu), 0.5; Clearance by active secretion (CLsec), 2L/h; Fraction reabsorbed (FR), 0.25; Hepatic Extraction Ratio (EH), 0.25. Q: Total Systemic Clearance (CLtotal) =? Formula: CLtotal = (F * D) / AUC (RMI Pharmacokinetics, 2014) Where, F = fraction of dose absorbed (mg), (1 – FR) * (1 – EH ) (RMI Pharmacokinetics, 2014) AUC = area under the curve (mg/L/h), (Δt /2) * Cf (Summit PK, 2014) D = single dose (mg), Q * AUC * F (RMI Pharmacokinetics, 2014)

Computation:

Step 1: Computation of F F = (1 – FR) * (1 - EH ) F = (1 - .25mg) * (1 - .25) = .75 * ...

Tax Research Project 2

Introduction: In 1976, Congress amended the tax law to include Section 280A (Lawyer, 1985) in the Internal Revenue Code. Congress’ reason for the amendment was due to concerns that people were renting out their vacation homes so that they could deduct personal expenses that would not, under normal circumstances, be deductible (Lawyer, 1985). Section 280A required vacation home owners to assign expenses connected with the vacation home either to personal use or rental use. Congress apparently hoped that Section 280A would limit or control the business deductibles for expenses sustained on a vacation home during the tax year when ...

Abstract

Media channels promote TV violence aggressively to earn money. What was limited to imaginative stories on movies and television shows are now enacted in real life violence on TV. In the event of such promotion of violence, the influence of media violence on children as well as teenagers has become a topic of great discussion, especially when the number of crimes committed by teenagers is escalating around the world. There lies a conflict of opinion among people as regards the effect of media violence on teenagers with one group believing that violence is a natural streak inherent in some people and children ...

Prevention is crucial when it comes to combating rabies. Luckily, it is also quite easy. Prevention is classified into two methods: primary and secondary. Primary prevention: minimizing and avoiding exposure: One of the most vital steps in checking rabies is educating the endangered about sensible pet ownership as well as how they can avoid or minimize their rabies exposure. To begin with, dogs, cats and other pets must receive regular rabies vaccines. The conventional rabies vaccine was initially administered to dogs once annually, but desires to reduce vaccine frequency initiated the development of rabies vaccine that is now ...

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The acute respiratory distress syndrome is a form of injury to the lungs that impedes the supply and uptake of oxygen from the alveoli resulting in a state of severe hypoxemia, dyspnea, anxiety, and tachypnea. This review has established that genetics may be playing a role in increasing one’s susceptibility to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS. Moreover, biomarkers would also play a significant role in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. However, it still remains unclear on the type of genes and biomarkers that play a role in causing ARDS. It has also been established that young children (less than 2 years ...

The website Math is Fun.com is authentic; the features itself are simple yet attractive. It started on April 19, 2000; it is their 13 years of helping people learn especially students and children. The site covers the full kindergarten to K12. It has a teachers’ page to inspire their student to visit the site for any suggestions and recommendations. Math is Fun updates their featured topic of the month, and forum is open for any feedbacks, new ideas and comments. It shows the real view of what really means about Math is Fun. The simple minimal features added the clarity ...

When studying philosophy and political science in general, the names of Plato and Aristotle are often mentioned as the most prominent minds and the starters of many philosophical and political doctrines. Both philosophers were concerned with the nature of the State, or the polis, the forms it could take and which one of them could be considered as the best possible regime a society could give itself. According to Bertrand Russell, Aristotelism gave the foundations to forms of government based on reason, while Platonism gave foot to idealism and the establishment of mysticism as a way to control societies . This work ...

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This research paper will discuss the significant contribution of DNA fingerprinting in the criminal justice system for being able to provide a reliable basis for conviction. DNA fingerprint analysis is referred as an accurate indicator to determine the guilt and innocence of an accused. The history, importance and various DNA fingerprinting techniques shall be discussed. In addition, DNA fingerprinting is considered as more superior than other forensic science methods since the technology has improved over time. DNA fingerprinting has allowed the test of smaller amounts of material, faster testing procedures and more conclusive results. Finger ridge analysis is science and ...

The two companies that give a good opportunity for comparing capital expenditure are Wal-Mart and eBay. According to NAICS, the industry is coded 443112. The name of the industry under which the companies are operating is known as Radio, Television, and Other Electronics Stores Industry.

Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart, List 2013 Fortune Global 500 Company, is ranked as the second largest corporations all over the world (Hays, 2014). The company has an employee base of 200 million being the largest retail in all worlds. As on January 2014, the company had 800000 workers, 6337 stores and up to 26 countries that are outside ...

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Introduction Pi is a mathematical constant that expresses the ratio of the circumference to the length of its diameter. Denoted by the Greek letter π. First symbol of this number by the Greek letter π was taken by British mathematician Jones in 1706, and it became common after the works of Leonhard Euler in 1737.

This designation comes from the initial letters of the Greek words περιφέρεια - circle, peripherals and περίμετρος - perimeter.

History History of the number π ran parallel with the development of mathematics. Some authors divide the process into 3 periods: the ancient period during which π was studied from the standpoint of geometry, classical era, which ...

R. Williams’ Analysis of the Conformation of the Bloomsbury Group

Contemporary culture has exalted the individual over society. Nevertheless, this relation is not simple because individuals are immersed in society and form it. Raymond Williams has examined this problematic by analyzing the Bloomsbury fraction in his book Problems in Materialism and Culture: Selected Essays. Williams is basically concerned with how to describe this cultural group, as it purported not to be integrated by people that shared an ideological system, but that were friends. This cultural group allows him to develop his thesis, wherein the modern social consciousness is based on a conception of the individual as being free and civilized. ...

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In the US, the income level is unevenly distributed due to several factors. The first factor is education. Due to industrialization and growth of the private sector in the US, there is high demand for highly skilled labor in terms of academic qualifications. Therefore, individuals with Bachelor’s Degrees are preferred to those who have a college degree (Weissman, 2012). The level of certified expertise becomes a critical determiner of the job entry level and chances of upward mobility. Due to this factor, income inequality between the highly qualified professionals and the average working class is high. As the working life ...

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Summary and Conclusion 11 Reference .. 13 Introduction It has always been the objective of the firm to encourage cost minimization as possible so as to enjoy the benefits of increased profitability which is the ultimate goal of many organizations. However, it is also prudent to note that these organizations would be required to make a choice of the most efficient costing methods to be adopted in the organizations business operations. Hence, the study shall undertake an in depth research so as to ...

Introduction

Many are often amazed at the term hydraulic Fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing is a technique that involves typical mixing of water with chemicals and sand, under high pressure. The mixture is injected into wellbore to create small fractures where fluids such as petroleum, gas, brine water and uranium-bearing solution might migrate to the well. It is at this point that some have voiced their concern on the possible pollution of ground water due to the injection of these chemicals to the ground (Spellman 45). However, others have also supported the process so strongly citing that the amount of chemicals released in ...

Introduction

Valuation of projects is a critical task whenever a business wishes to determine the worthiness of a project. This worthiness is measured in financial terms. In valuing the project for MNQ Company, the IRR, MIRR, NPV and payback period will be used. The project will be accepted if the IRR is higher than the discount rate. If IRR is lower than the discount rate, the project will be rejected. On the other hand, it will be accepted if NPV is positive. However, if the NPV turns out as negative, the project will be rejected. This project will be accepted if the MIRR ...

Introduction

An isotope can be defined as a variant of the same element that has the same atomic number but different mass number.These variants must be of the same elements. That is the have the same number of protons but different number of neutron. Isotopsy is existence of an element in more than one form having the same atomic number but has a different mass number.

Stable and unstable nucleus

A stable nuclear is the one whose the number of proton and neutron in an elements are equal or are nearly equal hence the element nuclear does not disintergrate.The nuclears is not as heavy as in ...

Water is the most common element on earth and it constantly keeps renewing itself through evaporation and then rainfall. About 97% of the world’s water is in the oceans and the remaining percentage is locked up in glaciers, icecaps, etc., leaving about 1% of the world’s water available for human consumption. Apart from satisfying domestic use, this water must also be available for industries and agriculture. Water can be an important political issue in the developed countries such as it is in America and other developed countries in the world. In America for instant, various states such ...

Hydraulic fracturing or fracking is a technique that involves typical mixing of water with chemicals and sand, under high pressure. The mixture is injected into wellbore to create small fractures where fluids such as petroleum, gas, brine water and uranium-bearing solution might migrate to the well. The hydraulic pressure is removed from such well and small proppant grains are used in holding the fractures open when the rock achieves equilibrium. This technique is common in wells for tight gas, shale gas, coal seam gas and tight oil. Such well stimulation is carried out once in the well’s life time ...

reinforced with Aluminium glassy alloys

Engineering

The effects of mixing time, sintering temperature, sintering time and pressure on mechanical properties of a metal matrix composite (MMC) reinforced with Aluminium glassy alloys

Introduction

Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs) are an important class of engineering materials because they can continually be adapted to suit the needs of manufacturing and newly available technology. MMCs using aluminium as a basic ingredient can be designed to meet particular needs for high performance materials. Duralumin™ was the first aluminium alloy demonstrating the ability to result in a material with very high temperature strength after solution treatment and aging (STA). Duralumin™ or ...

A Concise Study and Proposed Computer Applications

Introduction Venice is one of the most prosperous cities in all of Europe. Its wetland setting and breath-taking water infrastructure are perfectly extraordinary. The city stands on 118 small islands, even though its buildings are believed floating on water or anchored to the seafloor by unknown mechanism. A couple of centuries ago, evident consequences happened due to subsidence and sea level increased substantially. At the rate of 2 millimeter per year, the city sinks gradually. However, not until 1966 when a major flood occurred, the water rises above 1.9 meters. Due to this sudden calamity, the Italian government made a ...

There are nearly 5 million cases of epilepsy in the United States every year. The most common and serious form of status epilepticus occurs to people with no prior history of epilepsy. About 5% of adults and 10% to 25% of children will develop this disorder every year. Infants and elderly people are at more great risk of developing Status epilepticus yearly than others1. About 1.4% of white and 1.1% of black people will develop this disorder every year compared to 0.6% of Hispanic who will have a lower rate of such incidence. About 1.23% of women will develop ...

After decades of uncontrolled hypertension, Ms. Griffin was diagnosed with left-sided heart failure. Although her heart failure was diagnosed eight years ago, she is currently in nursing care and cannot move from the bed or wheelchair because angina and dyspnea episodes often occur even during periods of rest. Over the past 2 years, she has been losing weight and is currently at 93 pounds, which is a 58 percent reduction compared to her previous weight of 160 pounds, so a percutaneous esophageal gastronomy (PEG) tube was inserted in her. According to the New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional classification system, ...

Introduction

Disease Process Nursing Evidence based Practice Nursing Care Plan Conclusion Introduction Congestive Heart Failure is also known as heart failure. This happens when the heart becomes incapable of pumping blood efficiently to all organs in the body. Diagnosis is through physical examination. Patients often manifest with shortness of breath upon exertion and swelling in the both legs. Confirmation of the diagnosis is through echocardiographic evaluation. On many occasion congestive cardiac failure could be secondary to hypertension, type 11 diabetes or kidney disease (Goldman, 2011). Essentially, the significance of heart failure relates to ischemic ...

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The cerebellum is an essential part of the neuromuscular system in that it plays major roles in the timing of muscular activities and the smooth progression of one muscular movement to the next. The summary of how this is done is that it sequences all the muscular activities necessary for a particular movement, and then makes corrective adjustments as necessary when the movement is being executed so that they conform to the motor impulses being generated by the cerebral cortex and other significant parts of the central nervous system (Ganong, 2005). For instance, for an individual holding a cup and ...

Ms. Griffin was diagnosed with left-sided heart failure 8 years ago related to decades of uncontrolled hypertension. She is in skilled nursing care on oxygen by nasal cannula 24 hours a day. Ms. Griffin remains in bed or in a wheelchair because she has episodes of angina and dyspnea even at rest. Her weight has dropped from 160 pounds to 93 pounds over the past 2 years. Recently she had a “PEG” (percutaneous esophageal gastrostomy) feeding tube inserted. 1. Explain Ms. Griffin’s classification of heart failure according to the New York Heart Association Functional Classification. Ms. Griffin’s classification ...

Eukaryotic organisms’ cells are composed of different types of primary and processed RNAs. These RNAs are locally found in the nucleus, cytosol or throughout the cells. To understand the function of RNA as a type of protein, RNA profiling has been carried out leading to the birth of a genomic project known as “ENCODE or the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements”. The goal of the project is to identify and characterize functional elements that are present in the genes (Djebali et al.). In the paper Landscape of Transcription in Human Cells the study tries to answer the general question: should the ...

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This article aims at analyzing the political economy of communications and the consciousness of industry approach. It further examines the US class structure and its control of income and wealth using Domhofff’s framework to discuss how Big Media and Big Business make use of the government to promote and shape all the relevant public policies which promote all their short-term interest. - Jhally’s Argument about the Purposes of Media Today in Maintaining Shared Ideological Consensus in the General Public

Introduction

The political economy perspective is of much importance in the structure and process of communication. A great ...

Introduction

Asylum is a fundamental right for people who are facing harmful prosecution and adverse circumstances in their own country and therefore are in need of international protection. That granting asylum to helpless refugees is an international obligation was first recognized in Geneva Convention held in 1951 on the protection of refugees. Geneva Convention identified refugee as someone who cannot return to his home country due to reasonable "fear of being prosecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion” (McDonough & Tsourdi, 2012). All the member states of European Union are required to undertake a joint ...

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Monopolistic and oligopolistic competition: theory and examples

Introduction One of the most important characteristics of an industry is its competitiveness. It often determines how profitable the businesses within this industry are or potentially can be, whether they have incentives to provide quality products and happy the customers are purchasing the products. In microeconomics, three types of market competition are usually being considered: monopoly, oligopoly and perfect competition. Monopoly implies that there is sole supplier of a good or service in the market who is a price setter and most often exploits its monopolistic power to derive excessive profits. The opposite to it is perfect ...

The aging of population, or some may know them as, the graying of the population is turns out to be a really major concern that is all over the world. There are a lot of concerns that are actually guiding to population aging, specifically, reluctance to things such as getting married or even getting marriage much later, fertility control, longer life span, low birth rate and longer life span. Every one of these factors is also connected to creating rank of the nation. The more the nation is trying to develop, the more the issues have a much stronger influence on populations that ...

Waste Management

Introduction Dealing with waste has become an increasing concern nowadays, since it affects people’s life quality by impacting the health, it affects the aesthetics, it jeopardizes the ecosystems and in general, it negatively impacts the environmental sustainability. Domestic waste (generated by individuals) and commercial and industrial waste represent a quotidian aspect that authorities are aiming to handle, either through applying laws and guidelines for maintaining healthy and clean cities and villages, either by applying various technologies for actually managing the waste disposals. And the processes and technologies used to manage the various types of waste differ depending on ...

There two ways to verify to verify the probability of being dealt with pocket aces is 1/221. The first method is the use of permutation and combination. In this method, we calculate the number of possible ways of arranging two aces out of 52 cards as the first step. The next step is determining possible number of ways of arranging 2 aces out of four cards. The above permutations are shown below. 51*522=1326 (i) 4*32=6 (ii) Getting the probability of being dealt two pocket aces is therefore the result of equation (ii) divided by the ...

1.0 Background Information on SARS Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a newly emerged febrile lower respiratory viral disease that has been described in Asia, Europe, North America and recently Middle East. The disease was first reported in Asia, specifically in Guangdong Province of Southern China, in late 2002. It then spread to Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, Canada, Taiwan, Thailand, Canada, the U.K, U.S and Slovenia at an unprecedented rate, so that in a period of weeks it had spread to 37 countries and was thus a pandemic of global concern in 2003. SARS is reported to be the first global ...

Day 1 - Cell Culture: At First an LB/amp plate was labeled with initials, the date, the name of the bacterial strain to be used (BL21) and the plasmid (pDHFR). Then 10 uL of reconstituted BL21-pDHFR was pipetted onto an LB/amp plate using sterile tip.The bacteria was streaked into four quadrants of the plate and after this it was covered immediately to avoid contamination. The plate was placed upside down inside the incubator overnight at 37°C and once colonies have grown to ~1 mm in diameter, they may be stored in a sealed bag upside down at 4ºC ...