The importance of eating whilst recovering in a hospital
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
The Hungry in Hospital report concerns the importance of food in relation to nutrition, and how nutrition is important when people are ill in terms of the healing process. It explores how food is therefore part of a patient's treatment, the reputation of hospital food, and suggests that health is...
A critical analysis concerning one aspect of the nursing care of older people who require palliative care
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
Cancer is a significant health problem in the UK today and according to Redfern and Ross (1999) is a major cause of mortality in the ageing population. Brooker and Nicol (2003) added that cancer is a medical diagnosis that covers the most distinctive diseases. Cancer Research Campaign (1999)...
A discussion concerning electronic fetal monitoring
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
So much has been written on electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) that it is legitimate to ask if there is anything new to say. This ubiquitous piece of technology has been rigorously evaluated over 20 years by randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and systematic reviews, and more recently has been the...
How does dietary status affect carcinogenesis?
Case study - 10 pages - Medical studies
Cancer is a multi-factoral disease resulting from the perturbation of the normal regulatory processes of a cell. Cancer cells are generated from healthy cells by an accumulation of genetic alterations. These alterations can take the form of mutations, losses, amplifications or re-arrangements in...
A critical analysis of issues in nursing management
Case study - 12 pages - Medical studies
As nurses strive to be recognized as professionals, the expansion and application of evidence in nursing is progressively becoming vital within the nursing discipline (Achterberg et al 2006). Patients have the right to expect the best care that will promote their well-being. This essay will...
Neonate with severe hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy
Case study - 6 pages - Medical studies
This case study is about a neonate with severe Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy, therefore it will take into account pathophysiological, diagnostic and grading issues surrounding HIE, and how these reflect on prognosis; consideration to the ethical issues associated with withdrawal of intensive...
Slurry transport
Thesis - 8 pages - Physics
In Slurry Transport, the solids are first ground to fine grain size and made into slurry with a liquid medium. The slurry is then pumped through the pipes to a desired destination. Even though the concept of slurry pipelining was known at the turn of the century, it was only in 1957 that it...
Azeotropic distillation
Thesis - 6 pages - Physics
Distillation is the most widely used separation technique in the chemical and petroleum industry. However not all liquid mixtures are amenable to ordinary fractional distillation. When the components of the system have low relative volatilities (1.00 <
The process of heat transfer
Thesis - 7 pages - Physics
Direct contact heat transfer is a fundamental process by which heat transfer occurs in nature. It is used for the improvement of cooling or heating processes, in terms of characteristic time, compactness and energy costs. Direct contact heat transfer is potentially more efficient than...
Applications of neural networks in chemical engineering
Thesis - 7 pages - Physics
Neural networks, which are simplified models of the biological nervous system, is a massively parallel distributed processing system made up of highly interconnected neural computing elements that have the ability to learn and there by require knowledge and make it available for use. Neural...
Three phase fluidization
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
Gas-Liquid-Solid fluidized beds have emerged in recent years as one of the most promising devices for three phase operation. This operation generates considerable, intimate contact among the gas, liquid and solid particles in these systems. It provides substantial advantages for applications in...
Micro reactors and process intensification
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
In recent decades there has been a significant increase in the energy efficiency of the process industry by optimization of unit operations. In many cases the limits of what can be done on a unit-operation scale have been reached. To develop chemical production routes and products that consumes...
Biodiesel: A cleaner source of energy
Thesis - 7 pages - Physics
A majority of the countries in the world are importers of petroleum and its products. The fossil fuels are being consumed at a rate, which is a million times faster than their rate of formation. The prices of petroleum products are mounting at an alarming pace due to the unmatched contribution to...
Pneumatic valves
Thesis - 6 pages - Physics
Today the performance requirements of process plants are becoming increasingly difficult to satisfy. In fact, without process control it is difficult to operate most modern processes safely and profitably. To understand the process dynamics and its behavior Apex has developed compact setups....
Bio-diesel: An Eco-friendly alternative
Thesis - 20 pages - Physics
Today, an attempt is made to find alternative, nonrenewable energy sources to replace conventional fossil fuels. Currently national energy demands are exponentially increasing as we are progressing into digital age and the population is increasing. One such method that is currently being refined...
Compact heat exchangers
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Physics
A heat exchanger that has a large surface area per unit volume is called a compact heat exchanger. The ratio of the heat transfer surface area to that of a heat exchanger to its volume is called area density ‘?'. A heat exchanger with ?>700m2/m3 is classified as being compact. Compact heat...
Evaporative pertraction
Thesis - 8 pages - Physics
Evaporative Pertraction is membrane processes that has fascinating advantages over conventional process for the separation of volatile solutes from aqueous solutions. This novel athermal Membrane separation process retains flavors and fragrances better than thermal techniques. It promises to play...
Common effluent treatment methods
Thesis - 7 pages - Physics
Pollution may be defined as any condition in which certain substances are present in such concentrations that they can produce undesirable effects or changes in physical, chemical, biological, radiological properties of air, water, soil. Such substances are called pollutants. The primary air...
Taking a closer look at coal
Thesis - 10 pages - Physics
The word "coal" came from Anglo-Saxon col, which meant charcoal. Coal was not mined in Britain before the late Middle Ages; i.e. after ca. 1000 AD. Mineral coal was referred to as sea-coal, either because it was found on beaches occasionally having fallen from the exposed coal seams above or...
Methods for removal of H2S from effluent gas
Thesis - 6 pages - Physics
The environment performs three basic functions in relation to man. First, it provides living space and other amenities that make life qualitatively rich for man. Second, the environment is a source of agricultural, mineral, water and other resources that are consumed directly. Third, the...
Conserved pathways of limb development in vertebrate embryos
Thesis - 5 pages - Biology
Mice and chick embryos serve as ideal test subjects in the analysis of developmental characteristics. Through in-vivo manipulation, signaling frameworks have been constructed to explain and describe the development of limbs (Tickle, 2004). The basis of all development relies on several...
A comparative study between propofol and thiopentone with topical lignocaine for the insertion of a laryngeal mask airway
Case study - 48 pages - Medical studies
LMA is a device commonly used in the practice of anesthesia. A condition for insertion of LMA, haemodynamic stability and respiratory depression following induction with Propofol was compared with Thiopentone preceded by topical Lignocaine. The study was a prospective, randomized, comparative...
Tissues
Thesis - 12 pages - Biology
Organisms are classified into two types based on the number of cells they are composed of- unicellular and multicellular. Multicellular organisms have many cells. But unlike in unicellular, where one cell performs all the functions, cells of multicellular organisms do not perform all the...
Crystal growth and its characterization
Tutorials/exercises - 26 pages - Physics
Recent developments in semiconductor research technology over that last decade have lead to a renew interest in the growth of single crystals with better physical perfection and high crystal growth is newly emerging field in this study of material science which involves control phase change the...
Determination of various protein concentrations by means of spectrophotometry
Tutorials/exercises - 11 pages - Biology
Spectrophotometry relies on the varying capabilities of molecules to absorb photons of light. This absorbance is characteristic of specific compounds, and can therefore be utilized to quantify and classify the presence/quantities of various compounds. (Harris, 2007) With the use of standard...
Ion selective electrode potentiometry
Tutorials/exercises - 11 pages - Physics
The use of ISEP offers great selectivity in the determination of trace elements. With the utilization of a fluoride ion selective electrode, the concentration within the unknown sample were determined to be approximately 0.0423 +/- 3.5x10-4 mol/L. (Standard deviation = 4.58 x 10-4) In comparison...
Dietary advices in disease prevention
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
Dietary advices aimed at reducing disease risk of the entire population can be of major benefit for the nation's health because even a relatively small reduction in risk factors in a large number of moderate-risk people could lead to much greater benefit for the total population than a large...
Developing a menu driven housing loan module
Thesis - 20 pages - Computer science
Loan Management System (LMS) integrates various packages with a view to avoid duplicity of work and optimize the very usage of the network resources. The purpose of this project is to specifically design a module (Housing Loan) of the loan management system to systematically grant financial...
Pressure ulcer program proposal
Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies
Pressure ulcers are one of the largest risks facing patients in hospitals today. The program that is described in this proposal sets out an agenda for dealing with this problem in a way that focuses on prevention. It is important because increasing numbers of patients are entering hospitals...
Bioreactor: Optimizing E.Coli fermentation for Bacteria directed enzyme prodrug therapy
Thesis - 10 pages - Biology
E.coli strain WM04 was determined as a viable option for Bacteria Directed Enzyme Prodrug Therapy. Determination of suitability for animal testing depends on sufficient quantities of bacteria being produced through fermentation. Optimal operating conditions are found for the production of WM04 by...
