Determination of Avogadro's number by spreading a monolayer of stearic acid on a known surface area
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
Avogadro's law states that equal volumes of gases, at the same temperature and pressure, contain the same number of molecules. Avogadro's constant(?)is the number of molecules in one mole of any substance, and it is known to be 6.02 x 1023. This laboratory exercise attempts to experimentally...
Determining enthalpies of reaction by calorimetry
Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Physics
The purpose of this lab is to determine the specific heat of the calorimeter, the enthalpy changes of 4 different reactions, namely Heat of Solution of NaOH(s), Heat of Solution of KNO3(s), the Heat of Neutralization of HCl(aq) and NaOH(aq), and the Heat of Reaction of NaOH(s) and HCl(aq), and...
Using UV-vis spectroscopy to determine the kinetics of bromophenol blue
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
The purpose of this lab is to determine the rate constant and order of reaction for an acid-base indicator, bromophenol blue. Bromophenol blue (BP) displays a color change from yellow to purple in the pH range of 3 to 4.5. In strong alkaline solutions, the dye becomes unstable and decomposes due...
Should body mass or lean body mass be used to calculate and prescribe resistance loads for the wingate test?
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
The purpose of this study was to determine whether assigned loads for the Wingate anaerobic cycle ergometer test (WAnT) test should be based on lean body mass (LBM) or body mass (BM) and to define optimal loads for eliciting maximal peak power output (PPO) which was used as the performance...
An analysis concerning whether or not V02 max data is different between male and female sample groups
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
Abstract - Purpose: The study aimed to assess whether VO2 max data is significantly different between male and female sample groups when eliminating the affects of body mass (BM), this was analyzed through the use of scaling methods. Method: Subjects (33 male, 21 female) performed a V02 max test...
Cancer immunotherapy :Study of T-Cell antigen receptor signaling functions
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
Cancer immunotherapy attempts to harness the immune system, including T cells, to target and eliminate malignant T cells in the host. However, generating efficient tumor immunity presents a major challenge to the scientist. The immune system is unable to recognize the tumor cells. These cells are...
Investigating the frequencies of gene and genotype in the human population
Thesis - 21 pages - Biology
Mendelian genetics is built on the work done by the "father of genetics", Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884). His contributions to the study of inheritance paved the way for our basic understanding of how traits are inherited from one generation to the next. He was also instrumental in applying...
A novel antibiotic drug delivery mechanism
Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies
On the most basic level, protein engineering entails changing an existing protein sequence for a new purpose.1 Although a rather young field, the last decade has seen a giant leap in the understanding of protein structure and function. The advent of DNA shuffling in 1994, for example, has led to...
Characterization of the niche for stem cell self-renewal in the hippocampus
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
Shortly after John Gearhart's amazing discovery of isolating and growing embryonic stem cells in culture, he made the following prediction, “The potential of these unique, versatile cells for human biologic studies and medicine is enormous”. In fact, many have underestimated the...
Designing an electro-mechanical device with automatic target detection and firing mechanism and a provision for remote controlling the device
Tutorials/exercises - 35 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
The main aim of any security organization is to provide a comprehensive security net to its client. However, in the process the cost of the whole process in terms of labor and money needs to be considered. Many times the work force gets limited due to reasons such as unavailability of suitable...
Analyzing district nursing in relation to the diabetic patient
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
In today's National Health Service (NHS) developments in technology, changing patterns of disease and reduced length in hospital stays are putting district nurses at the heart of Government policy. Liberating the Talents, the governments framework for nursing in primary care (Department of Health...
Patient's right to refuse life sustaining treatment
Tutorials/exercises - 15 pages - Medical studies
Medicine and law overlap in regards to numerous issues, none more controversial than a patient's right to refuse life sustaining treatment. When a patient is suffering an incurable and irreversible medical condition they face the extremely difficult decision of whether or not to continue...
Legal and economic analysis of the use of performance enhancing drugs
Thesis - 13 pages - Medical studies
Drug testing of athletes has been a controversial issue since the dawn of sports competition. The use of performance enhancing drugs remains a heavily debated issue of sports policy that has reached the congressional and Supreme Court level. Athletes of all ages use performance enhancing drugs to...
Online airline reservation system
Dissertation - 49 pages - Computer science
One of the most common modes of travel is traveling by air. Customers who wish to travel by air nowadays have a wide variety of airlines and a range of timings to choose from. Nowadays competition is so fierce between airlines that there are lot of discounts and a lot of luxuries given to...
Height and seed type preferences of the Black-Capped Chickadee
Thesis - 5 pages - Biology
The practices and behaviors employed by the black-capped chickadee displayed selective strategies towards the active foraging of food in the months prior to winter. The chickadees would collect food at a high rate, hide them, and subsequently return for additional food. The analysis demonstrated...
Development of a simulator for radar interface in Bharat Electronics Limited
Dissertation - 52 pages - Computer science
Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) was established in 1954 as a public sector enterprise under the Ministry of Defense. BEL, a premier Professional Electronics Company of India, has established and nurtured a strong in-house R&D base over the years to emerge and remain as a market leader in the...
A possible neural basis for autism: Oxytocin and vasopressin expression
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Medical studies
Autism is a devastating developmental disorder which is one of five disorders that are termed Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). Autism is commonly associated with qualitative impairment in social interaction and communication as well as repetitive and stereotyped patterns of interest. These...
Effects of mindfulness meditation and citalopram on worry and brain activation in patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder(GAD)
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Medical studies
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a type of anxiety disorder that affects over four million Americans in any year (NIMH, 2000). There is much research that shows anxiety can lead to a magnitude of health ailments, including cardiovascular disease, hypertension, suppressed immune system, and...
A history of epilepsy and the important contributions of John Hughlings Jackson
Thesis - 8 pages - Biology
The word epilepsy is derived from the Greek verb epilambanein, meaning to be seized, to be overwhelmed by surprise (The History and Stigma of Epilepsy, 2003; Temkin, 1971). Epilepsy is a relatively common brain disorder ? affecting between 0.5 to 1 percent of the world's population - yet it is...
VSAT: Satellite communications
Thesis - 29 pages - Physics
This report provides a review and assessment of satellite technologies for providing broadband data communications using Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) network systems. In this context, “broadband” means that the application requires a data transfer rate greater than 100 kbps and...
Computer graphics
Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science
The importance and application of computer graphics ranges from being able to play a three dimensional videogame to being able to quickly visualize automotive, aerospace, and even biological shapes and figures. Prototypes and models have become cultural artifacts with the up rise of...
A nursing management perspective of a critical incident report
Thesis - 8 pages - Medical studies
The assignment will discuss a critical incident from a nursing management perspective, being an admission assessment experienced during placement. It is not a care study. There will be an overview of the nurse-managers responsibilities during the admission assessment and attention drawn to local...
An assessment of a nurse's work with an elderly person within the mental health environment
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
This account will reflect on the skills of a nurse, observed at an older person 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 software 'programming arena'
Dissertation - 114 pages - Computer science
The Programming Arena is basically a distributed program which will be available on internet. It is the project which has been developed to help learners of different programming languages. It is a system which provides Free Tutorials of programming, Free Online Exam to test learner's skills,...
Setting up intranet facilities
Dissertation - 135 pages - Computer science
An intranet is an internal company network that uses the Internet standards of HTML HTTP and TCP/IP communication protocols along with a graphical web browser to support business application and provide department, interdepartmental and company wide communication solutions. An intranet uses a Web...
Employee performance evaluation system
Dissertation - 188 pages - Computer science
This project is developed for providing physical and intranet access to various functions performed by the Administrator and the Employees. Basically this project is developed for the HR department to gather the necessary information on any employee and as such increment in their basic salary and...
Airline ticketing system
Dissertation - 56 pages - Computer science
Before modern computing, the reservation system was done using manual means. This meant that a person about to travel had to spend a lot of unnecessary time waiting in queues in order to book their tickets. The manual process of reservation was also prone to human errors, which lead to a lot of...
Outsourcing information technology services (ITS)
Thesis - 5 pages - Computer science
This paper will address the issue of outsourcing information technology services (ITS), and whether or not it has been a success based upon concrete examples and performance metrics. Initially, the paper will consider an organization (government or company) which elected to outsource all its ITS...
Health care practices and clinical skills
Thesis - 6 pages - Medical studies
The aim of this essay is to discuss health and maximizing the health and well being of a client with mental health problems. Factors, which can enhance the health and social well being of the client, such as anxiety management and relaxation therapy, will be identified; the role of the nurse in...
A critical appraisal of key perspectives related to medical sociology and the sexual behavior of teenagers
Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies
The purpose of this essay is to critically discuss the sociological factors that influence sexual behavior during adolescence. A period of physiological changes from puberty to adulthood where society's perception and treatment of both boys and girls begins to change, also a period where...
