Profession in Dentistry
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
What do you want to be when you grow up? I've been asked this question many times since I was young. My reply was always rapid and quick from a teacher to a nurse to a tattoo artist. My answer changed as frequently as I changed my socks. This question, however, has slowly formulated to...
The evidence for a link between stress and ill health
Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies
This essay is going to examine the evidence for a link between stress and ill health. It will include sections on what stress is, how it is caused and its effects on the body and the mind. This essay is going to look at and evaluate different psychologist's views on stress and the effects it has...
Overview of hardware & information technology
Tutorials/exercises - 39 pages - Computer science
A computer is a device that accepts information (in the form of digital data) and manipulates it for some result based on a program or sequence of instructions on how the data is to be processed. Complex computers also include the means for storing data (including the program, which is also a...
What's wrong with May?
Thesis - 6 pages - Medical studies
In April 2006, a 92-year-old Caucasian widow, May C., fell in her kitchen 10 miles west of Yakima, Washington, resulting in a compound fracture of her right femur. May called her LifeLine service for help and was transported to Providence Yakima Medical Center. Surgical repair of her leg was...
The fundamental unit of life: Cell
Case study - 11 pages - Biology
When you look at a your house, you can see that it has got walls, doors ,windows and ventilators. All these things are the building blocks of your house. Similarly , bodies of all living organisms are made up of small unit which is called as a cell, as like bricks are the fundamental units of a...
Study on impeller manufacturing for centrifugal fans
Thesis - 27 pages - Physics
The Tail Rotor Spindle is the one of the main component in the Helicopters. The helicopters are used for transportation, for construction, for firefighting, search and rescue, and a variety of other jobs that requires its special capabilities. Helicopters are the most versatile flying machines...
Commodity futures market
Dissertation - 40 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
India has a long history of commodity futures trading, extending over 125 years. Still, such trading was interrupted suddenly since the mid seventies in the fond hope of ushering in an elusive socialistic pattern of society. As the country embarked on economic liberalization policies and signed...
A study of the power press
Thesis - 17 pages - Physics
Press is a tool used to work on sheet metal to convert its shape to the required item. Power presses are used for producing large quantities of components quickly, accurately and economically from the cold working of mild steel and other ductile materials. The components produced range over an...
Domain name service
Dissertation - 93 pages - Computer science
DNS began in the early days of the Internet when the Internet was a small network created by the Department of Defense for research purpose. Before DNS, computer names, or hostnames, were manually entered into a file located on a centrally administered server. Each site that needed to resolve...
Campaign information system
Presentation - 64 pages - Computer science
Model: The model is represented by entity beans. An entity bean represents a business object in a persistent storage mechanism View: The view in a Java EE application may be represented by a Java Server Page. Alternately, the code to generate the view may be part of a servlet. Controller: The...
Online help desk
Thesis - 52 pages - Computer science
Online Help Desk (OHD) for the facilities in the campus. This is an Intranet based application that can be accessed throughout the campus. This system can be used to automate the workflow of service requests for the various facilities in the campus. This is one integrated system that covers...
Study of DC drives
Tutorials/exercises - 50 pages - Physics
In general practice in industrial applications machine tools make use of motors for their feed applications where in, speed of this motors are controlled in conventional methods i.e., Ward-Leonard system, multiple voltage control, rheostatic control method etc. However, these methods are...
An investigation into the effect of exercise on clinical depression
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
Problems with depression are by no means limited to those who are clinically diagnosed as being so. Generalised, negative affect is experienced by everyone throughout the course of a lifetime. Usually, non clinical depression is linked to some kind of stressor in the environment which can be...
The 'OneWorld' health model and the prospects for future development of therapeutics for infectious disease of the developing world
Thesis - 15 pages - Medical studies
Despite the vast improvements in health care and prevention of infectious diseases in the developed world, six out of ten deaths in the developing world can still be directly attributed to infectious disease. Diarrheal diseases, lower respiratory infections, malaria, measles, TB, and HIV/AIDS...
Distinguishing 'health promotion' from 'disease prevention'
Essay - 4 pages - Medical studies
Over approximately the past one hundred and fifty years there has seen a series of shifts in our definitions of health and disease and, as a result, also in the approaches taken by governments and health professionals towards it. After an initial focus on sanitation and public health in the late...
The effect of diatomaceous earth on the behavior of the Red Imported Fire Ant
Thesis - 7 pages - Biology
Solenopsis invicta, the Red Imported Fire Ant, was brought over on ship cargo by accident from Central Brazil between 1933 and 1945 (Sullivan, 2003). Since then, it has become one of the most hated nonnative pests in the Southern region of North America. RIFA thrive in open, sunny areas such as...
Marfan Syndrome
Essay - 5 pages - Medical studies
Marfan syndrome (MFS) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by deformities in the skeletal, cardiovascular, and ocular systems. MFS is caused by a defect in the fibrillin-1 gene (FBN1), located on chromosome 15 at 15q21. Discovery: Marfan syndrome was first described in 1896 by Antoine...
Lupus
Essay - 5 pages - Medical studies
Recognition of gender and ethnicity from the health aspect has become increasingly imperative for medical practitioners. They are realizing the importance of evaluating health risk factors for both male and female, majority and minority groups, and young and old citizens. As diverse as the...
Information technology's constraints
Thesis - 5 pages - Computer science
During this information technology assignment, we're going to focus on the weaknesses of the system. Effectivelly, information technologies are more and more involved in our daily and in our professional lives. Everybody agrees to the fact that information technologies are one of the most...
Is the Dingo a true Aussie specie? Managing the Dingo (Canis lupus dingo): Conflict between the anthropogenic and environmental factors
Essay - 6 pages - Biology
According to Aboriginal myths and legends, the dingo (Canis lupus dingo) would have evolved in Australia from the “Dreaming” - the creation period - and have always been a highly estimated and valued companion. As a consequence of these oral memories and scarce testimonies of the past,...
Gamma ray spectroscopy using a scintillator detector
Essay - 6 pages - Physics
The aim of the experiment is to learn about the basic techniques of gamma ray energy spectroscopy and the interpretation of a spectrum, using a NaI(TI) detector. We obtained the spectra of two gamma sources using a spectrometer and the Maestro program. We also computed the energy resolution of...
Salon Vivez Nature: Trade Show of biological agriculture and natural products
Essay - 3 pages - Biology
What is a biological product? A product is considered biological when the producer did not use any pesticide, chemical weedkiller or fertilizer of synthesis. The biological farmers rather use natural manures, original seeds and cultivate the ground thanks to tested methods. In France, the real...
Studying the soybean nodulation at McGill University
Essay - 20 pages - Biology
This summer I had the great opportunity to do my three months training in McGill University in Quebec, Canada. It is one of the oldest Canadian universities, considered one of the most prestigious universities in Canada and one of the best in North America. According to the Times Higher Education...
The floods and the Cevenol phenomenon
Presentation - 22 pages - Geology
Floods = natural disaster. Floods = hazard for human and several animals. The Mediterranean supplies water. The Cevennes block everything. Climatic situation between 8h and 15h. Formation of cloudy cells, break up in point of V, V cells aspirate everything. Most of impacts are centered in south...
Fuel cells
Essay - 7 pages - Physics
What are the limiting factors in the introduction of PEM fuel cells into mobile power generation? What areas of research are being carried out to address these limitations and which of these do you feel will have the biggest impact in enabling the various types of fuel cells systems? Proton...
Autism
Essay - 3 pages - Medical studies
Autism manifests itself before the age of three years. It is one of the five existing pervasive developmental disorders, which are regarded as neuro-developmental disorders. They are diagnosed on a group of three behavioral impairments or dysfunctions: impaired social interaction, impaired...
Investigating the role of a gene suspected to be part of the hedgehog signaling pathway in Drosophila
Essay - 6 pages - Medical studies
Though Hedgehog (hh) has many homologues in vertebrates that signal through the same pathway, involving homologue proteins involved in Drosophila, leading to different effects on the organism (though all imply the morphogen feature of hedgehog), we will focus on its signalling pathway in the...
As a result of the practice of organ transplantation, do we ultimately require a re-thinking of the meaning of death?
Essay - 7 pages - Medical studies
Ever since its inception in the 1950s, organ transplantation has been accompanied by questions about the ethics of taking organs from the dead and living and giving them to others. Discussions abound among physicians, ethicists, policy makers, and the public. At first living and willing relatives...
The basic principle of a rocket
Essay - 3 pages - Physics
At first sight, a rocket seems to be about fire, noise and smoke. The basic principle of rocket is the famous Newtonian principle which says that "To every action, there is an equal and opposite action". A rocket throws mass in one direction and benefit of an equal reaction in the opposite...
How can the game theory affect the way of negotiating?
Thesis - 2 pages - Mathematics
The theory of the games is a very huge theory. In fact, this theory is enclosing very different sectors as economics, rationality and mathematics with probabilities. Let's explain a little bit what this theory is, which are the main authors and what is its future evolution. In a second part, we...
