Essays on Phosphorus

Minerals are natural inorganic substances that are found in rocks and soil and are considered essential components for human survival. Minerals compose an estimate 4% of the body and are necessary for normal functioning of the body. Humans are incapable of producing minerals which is why it is necessary to obtain minerals from plant and meat sources. Soil contains nearly 45% of minerals, wherein plants absorb all natural minerals which is absorbed in the human body upon consumption (Ward 2014). 18 minerals are considered essential out of the total 103 known minerals. Some of the major function so minerals ...

Application– Chronic Kidney Disease

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Chronic Kidney Disease Chronic kidney disease is related to a decrease in kidney function or damage to the kidney function for a minimum of 3 months. Actually, it is an ongoing process in which nephrons’ functioning decrease, glomeruli are destroyed, and glomerular stress is increased as a result of more work by surviving glomeruli to increase glomerular filtration rate (GFR); thereby, resulting in predictable steady decline of the function of kidneys (Buttaro, 2013). Chronic kidney disease is usually difficult to detect or grasp, and symptoms may not appear with a GFR more than 35%. However, when ...

Diseases and disorders occur due to many reasons such as bacterial or viral infections, can genetically be inherited or they can be linked to nutritional deficiencies. One such disease linked with nutritional deprivation is termed as Rickets or Osteomalacia. It is an illness which has been around for many centuries and mainly affects children. However, the prevention of rickets has been made possible with research and discovering the factors which can help improve bodily health. Yet, the disease is a commonly recurring one in developing countries where infants and young children are exposed to a nutritional deficiency of Vitamin ...

Abstract

Pinto bean is a popular plant in the United States and Mexico, so knowing how it grows is an important topic in the field of botany. One of the factors that influence plant growth is the soil condition in which the seeds are planted on. Based from the many studies conducted on pinto bean, as well as soil condition and plant growth, the amount of water in the soil is an important factor in the quality and production rate of the plant. Lack of water can negatively impact the growth of pinto bean, but some varieties of the plant ...

The issues faced by the Indian River Lagoon is quite similar to that of many rivers, lakes, and even oceans from various locations of the world. The steady decline in the marine population of the lagoon escalated to alarming rates by the end of the last decade. A few legislations that were passed in the early nineties to limit trawling in the estuarine region and as well as the direct dumping of untreated sewage wastes, had proved effective in the past. But later into the decade, the rescue efforts to salvage the lagoon and the ecosystem associated with it, ...

Which is a better choice at the grocery store: paper bag? Plastic bag? Or tissue bag? Explain your answer.The best choice at the grocery store is to bring a used bag. Paper bags, plastic bags, and tissue bags all have individual issues associated with their use. Paper bags come from a renewable source, and are biodegradable. Despite this, they require more energy to make and are less likely to be reused. Plastic bags are not biodegradable but consume less energy to be made than paper or tissue bags. Tissue bags are the highest energy consumptive option, but are more ...

1. Intake with screen removes floating, large solid impurities. The removed solids are called screenings, and they are treated and disposed as solid wastes. Mixing tank is where coagulants such as alum, aluminium sulfate, ferric chloride, ferrous sulfate or lime are mixed with raw water (Al-Najar), there is no waste stream generated from mixing tank since the process is quick and there is no time to settle. In, the flocculator slow mixing occurs to allows for floc formation, the chemicals added in mixing tank promote this process. Flocculated suspended impurities settle sooner due to their large size and mass. ...

Iron

Iron is a mineral that is abundant in plant foods, meat, seafood, and poultry. Green leafy vegetables have high levels of iron and are most suitable in cases of deficiency. Low levels of iron among young adult women can cause iron-deficient erythropoiesis (red blood cell production) and anemia (Harland et al., 2010, p. 325). These deficiencies can result in impaired immune and cognitive functions and can affect energy levels of an individual. Women of reproductive age usually experience menstruation on a regular basis. Heavy menstrual bleeding during this time increases the loss of iron, therefore, causing the deficiency.

Calcium

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Phosphorus and Nitrogen Limitation on Plants Growth

Introduction Plant growth and development rely on multiple environmental factors that include light intensity, temperature, water availability and vital minerals and nutrients. During the insufficiency of exogenous resources, plants maintain this imbalance through allocating the new biomass to that organ which specifically needs that insufficient nutrient (Hermans et al., 2006). Nutrients like nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) play significant roles in a plant life. They influence various metabolic factors of plant life through cooperating with each other such as in biomass distribution as well as regulating chlorophyll A and B levels. The objective of this experiment is to understand ...

Vitamin C and calcium: daily needs and food sources

Vitamin C: daily needs and food sources The daily need of vitamin C (ascorbic acid), depending on the labor intensity and the age is 64-108 mg for men and 55-79 mg for women. Scientists have concluded that 1200 mg of vitamin C per day helps to prevent falling ill during flu epidemics. It is actually sufficient to take only 100 mg, but after an appearance of the first signs of the disease, the dose should be increased up to 1 g. For those who smoke a pack of cigarettes per day (20 pieces) the dose should be increased by ...

Importance of Nitrogen and phosphorus to plants

Phosphorus and nitrogen is considered the essential nutrients required by the plants. They are required in larger quantities and thus known as the macronutrients. Each of the nutrients has its specific roles in plant development. Nitrogen mineral is the major component of most of the organs in plants. It constitutes approximately 40% to 50% of the dry matter of protoplasm, composes amino acids. It is also considered the major constituent of the building blocks of proteins. The nitrogen deficiencies result in slower or stunted growth and visible effects chlorosis (Nurzyńska-Wierdak et al., 2012). The plants that have been ...

History of Solar Panel windows

Human beings had always made good use of solar energy since when the earliest ancestor of man noticed that a line of sunlight was warmer than the shade and that rocks heated throughout the day by the sun continued to stay warm through the night. Ancient structures of the Romans were constructed with south-facing windows to garner in the warmth of the sun. This was passive solar heating, which is still popular today. The only new thing about passive solar heating or solar daylighting is the name (K, Sruthi et al, 25-34). All the early attempts to harvest solar ...

Introduction:

Rice has always been a staple crop in various nations worldwide, where most of the population around the world feed on it every day. Rice is also one of the top GHG contributory staple crop that exceeds that of the maize and wheat production (Linquist et al, 2012). Today, the environmental sustainability has made an impact to many sectors, especially the agricultural production. The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been innovated to serve as one of the primary tools in the integral assessment for the environmental impacts of the production of various agricultural products that includes rice. The agricultural ...

Clinical Presentation of CKD

According to the National Kidney Foundation, chronic kidney disease refers to the structural and functional abnormalities of kidneys over a period of three months demonstrated by either the damage of kidneys or Glomerular filtration rate lesser than 60mL per minute per 1.73 meter square . The clinical presentation of CKD is difficult to detect due to the uncommon symptoms in patients with GFR greater than 35 percent. However, when the percentage of GFR is less than 35 percent, a variety of complications associate with the disorder, such as hematologic, metabolic, psychiatric and cardiovascular issues occur . In such situations, clinical presentation depends on ...

INTRODUCTION

Modern society is surrounded on a daily basis by toxins and pathogens, along with the potential development of any number of diseases and disorders, all of which can be harmful to people and, in some cases, lead to their inevitable death. However, nothing is more difficult and disturbing than when the individuals afflicted are children. Diseases that specifically affect children have garnered as great deal of dedicated research and study. One of the most harmful of childhood ailments that can have permanent and long lasting effects is Rachitism, or as it is commonly known today, Rickets. This childhood condition is ...

Rickets can be referred to as the softening, as well as weakening of bones, commonly due to an extreme and extended deficiency in vitamin D. Vitamin D enhances phosphorus and calcium absorption from the digestive tract. A vitamin D deficiency renders maintenance of proper levels of phosphorous and calcium difficult resulting in rickets. Addition of calcium or vitamin D or o the diet in general corrects any resulting problems for a child. Rickets resulting from a genetic condition may need extra or other medications. A number of skeletal deformities resulting from rickets may require restorative surgery. Symptoms of rickets include ...