Information System
Presentation - 37 pages - Computer science
This presentation is about information system. It starts with the definition of information systems, parts of information system and its various types. A pictorial representation of each type is also provided. It then moves on with an explanation about each type of information system beginning...
Access to Care The patient from another culture
Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies
The profiles and cultures of migrants are becoming more diverse. Despite a policy of universal insurance for migrant workers and asylum seekers, barriers to access to care persist for these groups. This is mainly due to a lack of health services to meet the specific needs of these...
Negative effects of technology on society
Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies
Although technology can be very helpful, as it helps our society advance, there are some damaging side effects. Technology is advancing computers, phones, transportation, medical studies, and many other things, but it also has negative effects. Technology is socially damaging because it is...
TCP/IP
Presentation - 28 pages - Computer science
This presentation is based on the internet and in particular TCP/IP. The presentation will start with a definition of what TCP/IP is and then move onto the history and goals of TCP/IP. it will then shift its focus to the four layes that constitute the transmission control protocol/ Internet...
Remote Sensing
Presentation - 37 pages - Computer science
This presentation is based on remote sensing, its various types and the methods used in different fields. The presentation begins with the definition of remote sensing, its types including advantages and disadvantages of each type. It then shifts to an explanation of optical and infrared remote...
Industrial Toxicology: Proposal and validation of criteria for determining times reentrancy for pesticides used in forest nurseries
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
Agricultural farming practices, forestry or horticultural involve the use of many pesticides to deal with problems created by the proliferation of weeds, fungal diseases and insect pests. It is well known that users can be exposed to these pesticides during the preparation or implementation and...
Toxicology of urgency: Treatment of poisoning by cyanide
Thesis - 11 pages - Medical studies
The cyanide poisoning has been around for centuries if not millennia since it is likely to occur following the ingestion of certain plants such as the bitter almond, cassava, beans of Java, the core of apricots, plums, cherries. The industrial age has led to a significant increase in the use of...
Concentration/evaporation of the juices
Thesis - 10 pages - Physics
The fruit juice processing industry is one of the world's major agro-based businesses. Orange juice dominates in juice trade worldwide. Juice is a liquid that is naturally contained in vegetable or fruit tissue. Juice may be supplied in concentrate form. Generally, concentrates have a noticeably...
Why Sunshine Coast residents value conventional medical treatment more than natural therapies
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
Great progresses have been made, during the last century in the treatment of diseases. Indeed cure is more effective and quick today. Conventional medicine, drugs and scientific research is used everywhere, but it still varies according to the country. At the same time, we see that natural...
A study on tornadoes and their impact
Thesis - 7 pages - Geology
The word tornado derives from the Spanish word “tornado”, meaning "thunderstorm", which in turn was derived from the Latin word “tonare”, meaning, "To thunder". People also refer to tornadoes as twister, and the colloquial term cyclone.A tornado is an atmospheric phenomenon...
Discussion about the organ transplantation: An irreconcilable conflict
Thesis - 6 pages - Medical studies
According to the United Kingdom (UK) Transplant website , 9000 people in this country are currently in need of an organ transplant. However less than 3000 transplants are performed each year. What is true at the scale of the UK is also verified worldwide. There is an important lack of organs....
Co-generation (18 slides)
Presentation - 5 pages - Physics
In this presentation you will learn a bit about Co-generation. It is the concept of producing two forms of energy from one fuel. Co-generation (also combined heat and power or CHP) is the use of a heat engine or a power station to simultaneously generate both electricity and useful heat. It is a...
Universal asynchronous receiver and transmitter (UART) (17 slides)
Presentation - 5 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Serial communications is the process of sending data one bit at one time, sequentially, over a communication channel or computer bus. Serial communications is used for all long haul communications and most computer networks, where the cost of cable and synchronization difficulties make parallel...
Examining the addictive properties of cocaine
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
Throughout history human beings have been fascinated with chemicals and substances that alter the body's mental and physical states. Activities such as the chewing khat and smoking opium poppies have been exercised for hundreds of years in different cultures across the globe. Nevertheless, while...
Harmfulness of mobile phones
Thesis - 6 pages - Medical studies
If I ask you what is the thing that you always have with you? You will probably answer: "my watch", "my purse" or "my diary"…but I am sure a lot of you will answer "my mobile phone"!! and it is normal, in fact, if you think well, this little device can replace all the things quoted before:...
A comparative study of the market potential of different cardiovascular drugs in the pharmaceutical industry
Case study - 56 pages - Medical studies
A sample size of 20 hospitals and 33 chemists was chosen from the region. The survey method chosen was pharmacy to pharmacy by conducting personal interview, the data collection was extended for over 45 days and 20 pharmacy in-charge and 33 chemists were interviewed and asked questions regarding...
Game theory: Negotiation
Thesis - 3 pages - Mathematics
Investigate the use of game theory in negotiation. What are some of the ways it might be used? How is it a more effective method for producing a good outcome for a negotiator than more traditional methods? In our case, we have to imagine a negotiation situation. It is just to imagine two parts...
Smart wireless foot pedal: How to make one specific to medical equipment
Presentation - 25 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
In this project, we will be developing a micro controller based wireless foot pedal system to be used along with medical equipment. Most of the surgical equipments will be controlled by the foot pedals. Most of the surgical equipment will be controlled by the foot pedals. The parameters such as...
How visual images are captured and encoded by the retina and represented in the primary visual cortex
Thesis - 8 pages - Medical studies
Visual perception is the ability to interpret information from visual light reaching the eye, the resulting perception of this information is sight. Light is electromagnetic energy that is emitted in the form of waves, it is reflected off an object to enter the eye, and is refracted by the eye to...
Biological effects of ultrasound
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Medical studies
Medical sonography, high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), and ultrasound-enhanced systemic thrombolysis are just three of the medical applications of the natural phenomenon of ‘ultrasound,' high frequency sound waves that are undetectable to the human ear. Ultrasound waves have a number...
Progress of Alzheimer's disease
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Medical studies
Alzheimer's disease is a progressively debilitating condition that occurs in stages, from pre-Alzheimer changes in brain cognitive functioning to late stage deterioration. The disease process includes memory loss, lack of ability to perform formerly easily carried out higher-motor skill...
Genetically modified trees: A natural concern
Thesis - 4 pages - Geology
Smell the scent of flowering honeysuckle, hear the chirping of birds, and the wind in the boughs coupled with the crunch of foliage beneath the feet. The air is pristine, the sky is clear blue, and the sounds of nature are all around. A forest is timeless almost, before mankind ever existed or...
Olfaction and Alzheimer's: How and why are they connected?
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
For many years olfaction has been the most disregarded and least studied sense in the scientific and medical communities. Consequently, the amount of knowledge about how olfaction works is small compared to the vast knowledge we have about the other four human senses2. Olfaction is the chemical...
Determination of outer sphere and total Chloride content, and formula of unknown Co complex by ion exchange chromatography and Fajan's method
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Physics
The objective of this lab is to determine the formula of an unknown Co (III) complex through determination of outer sphere chloride content and hence total chloride content in the complex. Co (III) tends to form numerous coordination complexes, of which the most common ones are those with ammine...
The care of an elderly person in the mental health system: A patient-led approach
Thesis - 6 pages - Medical studies
This account will reflect on the skills of a nurse, observed at an older person's functional mental health unit. It will focus on the organization of care, and skills used when dealing with a Multi Disciplinary Team. (MDT) It gives an understanding of the skills used to clearly establish and...
The importance of accurate diagnosis of the mentally
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
Assessment of a patient in an acute phase of mental illness could arguably be one of the most important tasks that a registered mental health nurse faces in their career. The importance of gaining the correct information at this critical stage leaves little margin for error. Sullivan (1990)...
A critical analysis of a health promotion initiative
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
One of the fundamental roles of the nurse is the promotion and maintenance of health as declared by the Vienna Declaration on nursing (1988) and cited in Salvage (1993). This reflective account, will discuss the presentation of a health promotion initiative by a third year mental health nursing...
An analysis of patient autonomy within the British mental health system
Thesis - 6 pages - Medical studies
Being subject to Section three of the Mental Health Act 1983 removes some rights taken for granted by members of today's society. Patients subject to this Mental Health Act may find it difficult to exercise the right of autonomy, and furthermore face many ethical dilemmas whilst under a Mental...
The UV-vis spectra of conjugated dyes are interpreted using the multielectron particle-in-a-box model
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Physics
The purpose of this lab is to observe how a real system may be approximated using the simple quantum mechanical model of a one-dimensional particle-in-a-box. Due to the arrangement of the electrons in the conjugated dyes, some electrons are free to move along the molecule's carbon-carbon...
Synthesis and analysis of ammonium vanadates and determination of water and vanadium content in ammonium decavanadate using manganometry
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Physics
The objective of this experiment is to synthesize ammonium decavanadate (NH4)6V10O28.6H2O and ammonium trivanadate NH4V3O8 and subsequently determine the water and vanadium content in ammonium decavanadate. Vanadium in the +5 oxidation state forms numerous species in aqueous solution and a tight...
