Can Japanese Sogo-soshas become common in Europe and USA with the system and its current situation?
Essay - 11 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
According to Reuters, a Japanese company has come up with a new way to track down grandmas, grandpas and anyone else who forgets where he or she is supposed to be. The company will use a satellite-based global positioning system and cellular technology. The device has been developed by a firm...
The disposable DVD (DVD-D)
Thesis - 3 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
The DVD-D is a standard DVD that can be used only for several hours after the card board sleeve has been opened. But the sleeve can be opened anytime: now, in one day, in one week, in one month or in several years. Then the DVD-D has a restricted lifespan of eight hours, after which it will be...
Clinical tests in developing countries and pharmaceutical ethics issues
Thesis - 10 pages - Medical studies
The clinical trials performed on humans by the pharmaceutical companies are essentials for the advancement of the knowledge of human health. After the terrible Nazis experimentation during the Second World War, some actions have been taken to protect the participants of the clinical trials. Many...
The use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) by banks
Essay - 3 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Nowadays, companies are getting more and more involved in Geographic Information Systems. Indeed, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a new tool for today's businesses. This statement is confirmed by Peter Keenan (2005). There are in fact several reasons why companies are increasingly using...
The Health Care System in the UK
Essay - 5 pages - Medical studies
The first national strike in the NHS for nearly 20 years took place in London in September last year. This seems to be of bad omen for the British Health Care system. Before we go further into the subject, let us remember how health care used to be before any protection system existed in the UK....
The consecration of the patient's autonomy
Thesis - 11 pages - Medical studies
Pain, suffering and death are to some extent, inevitable in human life, though Health care must always seek to eliminate unnecessary suffering and untimely death. But it is easy to recognise that prolonging the process of dying us often undesirable. The difficulty encountered by medical teams is...
Computer simulation study of ionic and non ionic hydration
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Physics
Liquids, solution, and liquid crystals present local, but not long-range order. On one hand particles in liquids interacts much strongly than the particles in gas, and this prevents the use of the usual statistical mechanics methods to predict their structure and properties since the needed...
Cost literature review: Assisted reproductive techniques and In-vitro fertilization
Thesis - 11 pages - Medical studies
According to the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, fertility problems affect 7.3 million of women and their partners in the United States. That compromises about twelve percent of the population of reproductive age (American Society for Reproductive Medicine, 2008). The majority of...
Chemicals obtained from wood
Essay - 6 pages - Biology
A wide array of both commodity and specialty chemicals can be derived from wood, either as a primary product or by-product of another process. The technologies in which chemicals are the primary products include thermal degradation, hydrolysis/ fermentation, direct collection, and extraction...
Applications of NMR imaging in processing of foods
Essay - 7 pages - Physics
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), originally developed for medical applications, has recently been exploited for observation and characterization of foodstuffs and their manufacture. MRI and its related techniques have already proven useful in non-invasive observations of fruit and vegetable...
What was TV?
Essay - 4 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
In the 1950's television became the dominant mass media as people readily brought small screens into their homes in greater numbers of hours per week than ever before. It was clear that television would leave its mark “for good or ill and be under ever widening scrutiny—and not merely...
New methodology using synchrotron radiation to characterize fast events in food processing
Essay - 7 pages - Biology
In a typical food process, a hot mixture is made, which is then cooled rapidly. A main result of cooling is a change in physical state and/or molecular structure. Often, a succession of physical changes occurs as the product cools. Events occurring at the more rapid cooling rates can be difficult...
On-Line quality control: Advances in sensor technology
Essay - 9 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
The success of new product introductions lies with consumer acceptance of key food attributes such as texture, color, flavor, freshness, and nutrition. Automation in food processing allows for control of the consistency of these attributes by measuring a specific property, adjusting processing...
Nintendo Corporation Limited
Essay - 6 pages - Computer science
As one of the leading game console industries, Nintendo Corporation has remained in the technological market for over fifty years. Established officially in 1963 by former President, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Nintendo Corporation yet remains to be a well known and a well-established industry for having...
Methodology in biological psychology
Essay - 10 pages - Biology
Biological psychology manipulates and observes psychological variables just as do all other fields of psychology. However, to delineate the somatic contribution to behavior and mental functions, biological psychology needs to draw evidence from studies combining methods of psychology with those...
Sociology of the family: global advances and challenges
Essay - 8 pages - Biology
Sociology of the family as a field of research, education and action faces many challenges and critics, both within academic institutions and in the larger society. This paper focuses on recent developments in international family sociology in the context of the discipline of sociology, and its...
Biometric research as experimental method in science
Essay - 5 pages - Biology
Any discussion of research in a scienti?c ?eld is subject to caveats because research must of necessity be less de?nitive than a discussion of the ?eld's established operational practices. First, enumerations of current research topics will be dated and subject to the perspective of the...
Overview of manufacturing beer: Ingredients, processes and quality criteria
Essay - 10 pages - Biology
Beer is one of the oldest cultural achievements of mankind and one of the most popular beverages all over the world. From the technological point of view, beer has four main properties based on its contents and manufacturing processes. It is (i) pure, (ii) wholesome, (iii) valuable, and (iv) it...
Genetic systems of forest trees
Essay - 7 pages - Biology
The term ‘genetic system' was coined in 1932 by C.D. Darlington, one of the renowned pioneers of cytogenetics. His original de?nition was limited: Properties of heredity and variation, methods of reproduction and the control of breeding, we now realize, are in various ways bound up together...
Molecular biology of forest trees
Essay - 7 pages - Biology
In order to genetically engineer a plant, one must be able to insert a gene into the genome of an individual plant cell and then cause that cell to differentiate into a whole plant. The former process is referred to as transformation; the latter, regeneration. The most common way of transforming...
Sap-sucking insects in forests
Essay - 5 pages - Biology
Insects of the order Hemiptera have mouthparts specialized for piercing and sucking, and within the suborder Homoptera of this order two groups, the Auchenorhyncha and Sternorhyncha, speci?cally feed on plants. As their general name implies these insects feed on the sap of plants. This can be the...
Toll-like receptors as part of the innate immune response
Essay - 5 pages - Biology
There are two major arms of the immune system: innate immune response, and acquired, or adaptive, immune response. Phagocytic cells recognize pathogens that bind to specific receptor recognition molecules or through complement fixation, and then activate pathways to contain infection. Essential...
Foliage feeders in temperate and boreal forests
Essay - 7 pages - Biology
Insect consumers of tree foliage comprise one of the most abundant and diverse feeding guilds in forest ecosystems. Known as folivores, this guild is integral to the structure and functioning of forests. Folivores in?uence vital ecosystem processes in forests, including nutrient turnover,...
Neuroimmunology
Essay - 8 pages - Biology
Human skin consists of a sophisticated network of nerve fibers and specialized sensory structures to transduce sensations of touch, vibration, temperature, and pain. Nerve fibers have dual functions: to transmit afferent sensory impulses to the central nervous system and to secrete mediators into...
Biological impacts of deforestation and fragmentation
Essay - 7 pages - Biology
In addition to housing the majority of the planet's biodiversity, forest ecosystems are the basis for trillions of dollars in global revenue. They are homes to indigenous groups, sources of food, medicines, and raw materials for industry, and they provide opportunities for recreation and tourism....
Innate and adaptive immunity
Essay - 7 pages - Biology
Immunology has roughly been split into two major subdivisions: cellular immunity, which comprises all different immunocompetent cells, and humoral immunity, a collection of all molecules involved in immune processes, such as cytokines, immunoglobulins, complement factors, and many others. Serum...
Bark beetles
Essay - 7 pages - Biology
Bark beetles are small, dark, cylindrical beetles, usually less than 7mm long. As their name implies, they are usually associated with woody plants. Despite their small size and modest appearance, they have an intriguing assemblage of feeding and breeding habits, some of which result in...
Agroforestry
Essay - 6 pages - Biology
Agroforestry is a term for practices where trees are combined with farming, as well as for the interdisciplinary subject area embracing land use systems, at a range of scales from that of the ?eld to the planet, that involve interactions amongst trees, people, and agriculture. Put simply,...
Biodiversity in forests
Essay - 7 pages - Biology
Interest in biodiversity began in the mid-1980s with the Biodiversity Symposium, held in Washington, DC, sponsored by the National Academy of Science. Within increasing human populations and rising demands for resources and living space, the need to conserve biological diversity rose to the...
Regulation of pigment biosynthesis in flowers
Essay - 9 pages - Biology
Flower color, along with fragrance, floral shape and nectar reward, is important to the interaction between plants and pollinators; and preferences towards specific colors are exhibited by pollinators, whether they are birds, bees, butterflies or other insects. Commonly contributing to floral...
