Production of bacteria colonies containing normal and mutated version of the same gene (encoding for Bacillus thuringiensis toxin) to compare the activity of the corresponding proteins
Essay - 13 pages - Medical studies
The Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a bacterium which mostly has insects as hosts. When the growing conditions are bad (lack in nutrients, bad temperature etc.), Bt produces spores, sleeping forms of the bacterium, which are able to resist even extreme conditions. What makes Bt different from...
Globalisation and the mass media
Essay - 5 pages - Computer science
The Internet is above all, a decentralised system of interactive communication. And Internet-enthusiasts have seen it as a way to introduce more communication between different communities around the world, as well as an outstanding mean to re-invent and develop democracy. For the first time in...
Health concepts
Essay - 3 pages - Medical studies
When going to the doctor's office or hospital many things are going through an individual's head. The individual is most likely experiencing some very high anxiety at this point, not knowing what to expect. The anxiety can come from the pain and suffering, financial concerns, or numerous other...
Remedies for insomnia
Thesis - 2 pages - Medical studies
Sleep is a wonderful health formula. When tried, the limbs are aching and the mind is in a spin. After a few hours of peaceful sleep you wake up completely fresh, a totally new person. Most men and women spend a third of their lives in sleep. Infants seem to enjoy sleep the most- sleeping a good...
Remedies for constipation
Thesis - 2 pages - Medical studies
We are a nation of bowel-conscious people, obsessed with the regularity of its functioning. Both at the outpatient's clinic and in the wards, people complain about constipation. But on a closer look, the problem often lies more in the mind than anywhere else. Tracing the roots of this mindset is...
Remedies for childhood stuttering
Thesis - 2 pages - Medical studies
The development of speech in a child begins as soon as he is born. While he sucks and swallows, belches and smiles, he uses the very same coordination that he needs to use in speech. Yet it is not until he is 12 to 18 months old that a normal child begins to say his first meaningful words. He...
Remedies for cataracts
Thesis - 3 pages - Medical studies
At birth, a normal human eye is endowed with a wonderful lens, brilliantly clear and transparent. It allows the light to enter the eye and focuses what we are seeing on our retina. The lens burdened by age, becomes thicker. A cataract sets in. Lesser light enters the affected eye, and your...
A geological study of Saudi Arabia - particularly the Red Sea Margin
Dissertation - 3 pages - Geology
The write up tries to study the structural and topological evolution with a focus on tectonic developments to understand the geological characteristics of Saudi Arabia. Various theories, postulates and hypothesis have been used to find out how the modern day country with diverse geological...
Pharmacological effects and safe administration of Coumadin (warfarin)
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
“Coumadin is a registered trademark of Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharma Company,” (Bristol- Meyers Squibb Company, 2008) and is a trade name for the generic medication warfarin sodium,commonly known as warfarin. This paper explores the use of Coumadin (warfarin) in clinical practice,...
A reflection on one student's preparation to transition from student nurse to graduate nurse
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
This author's personal philosophy of nursing draws from a variety of sources to form a comprehensive whole. Feminist ethics, and the ethics of care which derives from it, encourages health care professionals to look at clients as whole people, who fit into a social framework, and who have...
A clinical portrait of a patient in crisis
Thesis - 2 pages - Medical studies
In the spring of 2009 this author had the privilege to participate in the care of a twenty-seven year old woman who was recovering from a motor vehicle accident in which she had suffered multiple fractures of both her upper and lower extremities, as well as internal soft tissue injuries. This...
How internet has changed our businesses and career
Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science
Internet marketing services, popularly also known as online marketing, web marketing, i-marketing, search engine marketing or e-marketing is a new age Internet driven phenomenon that essentially deals with marketing of products and services on the Internet. The Internet has opened up a huge...
Things you should know about digital photography
Essay - 3 pages - Computer science
As a popular hobby for the past 160 years, one feature that has remained constant in photography is the need for the camera to be loaded with a ‘film' that needs chemical processing. Now, with the development of the charge coupled device (CCD), which converts light into digital electronic...
Photographing people
Thesis - 3 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Photographs of human beings are, by and large, more interesting than a picture of even the most beautiful landscape. However, it so happens that human beings become more conscious in front of the camera. This is due to the phenomenon called ‘camera phobia'! The camera is feared by all and...
Early developments in photography
Thesis - 3 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Since prehistoric times man has tried to capture the world around him in the form of images. Cave paintings bear testimony to this where the artists depicted the likeness to animals around them by sketching or painting them then the Greek philosopher Aristotle who observed that the light passing...
Developing and printing (Photography)
Thesis - 3 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
When black-and-white photography was popular, enthusiasts of this hobby generally gave the exposed films to professional studios/laboratories, but sometimes they developed and printed them at home. This was so because photography, being a hobby, people enjoyed indulging init and took pride in...
Living with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder affects roughly 5% of children in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009). The specific criteria needed for identifying ADHD in children has been laid out in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM),...
Measurement analysis: Experiment
Thesis - 2 pages - Physics
In this experiment, we use basic equipments such as ruler, scale and stop watch to make measurements of length, mass and time. In the first investigation, we make measurements to obtain values for derived quantities, such as the density of the cylinders. In the second investigation, we measure...
Geological scandals in Africa
Thesis - 4 pages - Geology
The African countries are wonderful tourist spots with famous heritage sites. However, they are also home to many scandalous events and incidents that make people shy away from visiting the spots. The term geological scandal was coined by Belgian geologist Jules Cornet in 1892 during an...
Fundamentals of neuropsychology
Thesis - 8 pages - Medical studies
The pavilion and the external auditory canal are parts of the external ear. The eardrum, the ossicles and tympanic fund are parts of the middle ear. The eustachian tube, the cochlea, the organ of Corti, the auditory nerve and the vestibular apparatus are parts of the inner ear. The auditory...
Leukemia: Causes, effects and solutions
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
The disease called Leukemia, also known as “blood cancer", primarily affects the bone marrow, spleen and lymph nodes. Children and the elderly people are the main victims of this cancer and men are more affected than women. In children, it affects 30% of all cancers. There are various...
Euthanasia
Case study - 6 pages - Medical studies
A dying patient challenged me during my internship in the 1st year of nursing in the gastro-enterology north-east ward of Erasme Hospital. I had seen this person for six days (from 12 to 18 April 2008), and during these few days, her son made a euthanasia request for his mother to the medical...
Spyware: Classification, uses and abuses
Thesis - 3 pages - Computer science
Spyware is a program or a subroutine designed to collect personal data about users and send them to its creator. A third of it may be sent over the Internet or any other computer network, without obtaining explicit permission and informing such users. In the case of a commercial spyware, before...
The alkaline electric battery
Thesis - 4 pages - Physics
The material in the anode of the alkaline battery is a zinc metal powder. Its production is carefully monitored to ensure its chemical purity and accurate particle size. These provide a surface quality which enhances the reaction of the battery. Indeed, a good quality surface enables contact with...
Sir Isaac Newton: Life, discoveries and the laws of motion
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
Sir Isaac Newton laid the foundation of modern physics in the late seventeenth century. He described in mathematical terms, the fall and the movement of the body and defined the three fundamental laws of universal gravity. He also developed the calculus, pioneered important work in optics,...
Things you should know about advertising photography
Thesis - 3 pages - Computer science
Modern age is the age of advertising and all advertising involves pictures, whether still or moving. Our day starts with the newspaper and can we imagine a newspaper without advertisements? Preparation of advertisement material is a joint effort of photographers and other creative people to...
Flash in photography
Thesis - 2 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Today electronic flash is by far the most popular source of light in photography. The color balance of the electronic flashgun matches that of daylight. This method of judging color balance is called ‘color temperature'. The sun and electronic flashguns have a common color temperature of...
Types of photo filters
Thesis - 2 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Filters come in two forms, viz. mounted glass discs which get screwed in front of the lens and plastic or glass squares that fit into filter frames and thus get attached in front of the lens. With the aid of adapter rings (also called step-down or step-up rings) filters of one diameter can be...
Different types of camera lenses
Thesis - 2 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
The main function of the camera lens is to focus the image sharply on the film. But they do a lot more than that: the lens aperture allows us to control the amount of light reaching the film and the depth of the field. Lenses are classified into ‘standard', ‘wide-angle' or...
Recrystallization and melting point experiment
Thesis - 2 pages - Physics
In this experiment, we purified an unknown substance by recrystallizing it. Then, we determined the unknown substance's melting point and then confirm its identity by mixing with o-Toluic acid, Acetanilide, Benzoic acid, P-Toluene sulfonamide and Salicylic acid. There are certain dangers and...
