Assesment of Normal Pregnancy
Presentation - 48 pages - Medical studies
The diagnosis of pregnancy is usually made on the basis of a history of amenorrhea, an enlarging uterus, and a positive pregnancy test. Nausea and breast tenderness are also often present. It may be crucial to diagnose pregnancy before the first missed menstrual period to prevent exposure of the...
How conflict theory provides an insight to sociologist in to the process of criminal activity and behavior
Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Psychology
Conflict theory has developed throughout the course of the twentieth century as a principle theory for better understanding the development of criminal behavior. Although conflict theory directly links criminal behavior to the development of larger social inequities, research on this paradigm...
Business plan for exporting RedGreen Danish chic sportswear products to Japan
Business plan - 13 pages - Business strategy
Where do we see fashion in 2007? Are people becoming more fashionable? We believe that fashion enables people to become a part of a culture and differentiate themselves regardless of the color of their skin and background...or identify themselves with a particular group. In the world of...
Business plan for floating shoes: launch of a new product in 2050
Business plan - 21 pages - Services marketing
The Sun Mountain Company proposes floating shoes to everyone. We plan to launch our product in the United States and Canada first and then expand it to the international market after 2 years. Mission and Strategy Statements At the very beginning, Sun Mountain was a distributor of mountain...
How the American civil war medicine has influenced modern medicine
Essay - 7 pages - Accounting
Over the course of the last century notable advancements have been made in the area of medical science. In addition to improving the technology available for use in medicine, professionals have come to realize the importance of basic hygiene as a means for infection control. As such, the quality...
Edward Cullen and his To-Be-Looked-At-Ness: Reversal of the cinematic gaze in Twilight
Thesis - 6 pages - Film studies
Twilight is the unabashedly melodramatic, vampire-meets-girl love story of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, and despite its clear success it still seems to be strange material for the first huge literary phenomenon of the twenty-first century. The author Stephenie Meyer has a tendency towards the...
Launch of a masculine lingerie brand
Case study - 13 pages - Services marketing
In the last few years, we find some new products for men. They are based on a new trend: men are taking care of themselves more than ever. Traditionally, women took care of them. Because of that, these products are copied from the women ones. Now, every man in Occidental countries...
Analysis of the shampoo market
Essay - 8 pages - Services marketing
Beauty and hair care product business is witnessed as a popular and fast growing business. Lots of people spend on beauty and hair care products like shampoo, hair conditioner, hair treatment and so on. So a hair care product has a great potential market because it has a...
The expansion of Clarins in India
Case study - 18 pages - Finance
The Clarins group was created in 1954 by Jacques Courtin-Clarins. It is a public company with a supervisory board and a Board of Directors, with a capital of around 325 million Euros divided into 40.6 million shares. In the beginning, Jacques Courtin first opened a beauty parlor in Paris. He...
Crohn's disease and its psychosocial implications
Case study - 24 pages - Psychology
Crohn's Disease is an autoimmune disorder that falls under a category of diseases known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease (sometimes referred to as Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome; Hanauer, S. B., 1996). An autoimmune disease is one in which a person's body determines its own cells and tissues to be...
Becoming a healthy eater
Essay - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Becoming a healthy eater can be hard. It requires you to be both educated and smart about eating healthy. Food smart isn't about calculating the amount of grams or fat but about labels and counting calories. Eating healthy requires you to eat at least 3 healthy meals a day. It's all about...
Cervical Cell Carcinoma
Case study - 5 pages - Medical studies
Lasting HPV (Human Papillomavirus) are known to cause more than 99% of all cervical cancers. Approximately 500,000 new cases of cervical cancer and 250,000 deaths due to cervical cancer are recorded every year worldwide. Majority of the cases (80%) are reported in developing countries. Women from...
The Specificities of Surgery
Worksheets - 5 pages - Medical studies
Surgery can refer to an invasive treatment, which is an aggressive approach that causes inflammation and involves "violating" a natural barrier in the human body (penetrating the skin or a mucous membrane to "work" inside the human body). An important concept in invasive treatment is the...
The case of Libb Pharmaceuticals
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
Libb pharmaceuticals originated back to 1855 by developing an all-purpose skin ointment, which achieved large success. Libb spent a significant proportion of firm's profits to the development of new product lines and improvement of existing ones. And thus by 1900, Libb was manufacturing &...
The export of cosmetics to China
Thesis - 20 pages - Economy general
China is a growing country that deserves a closer look to help explore all the opportunities it offers. Indeed, trade in China has a huge scope of development due to the decentralization and liberalization of 1978 and especially since its entry into the WTO in 2001. In spite of many inequalities...
Prevalence and Health Impacts of Vitamin D Deficiency Among Young African American Children in the United Kingdom: A Systematic Review
Dissertation - 3 pages - Medical studies
Vitamin D is one of the essential nutrients for a child's average growth. It exerts a significant influence on bone mineralization and immune responses. Despite being an essential nutrient, its deficiency is predominantly worldwide, leading to an alarming public health issue. Also, studies...
"Mind-Blowing, Toe-Curling Sex": Coding sexualization and authority in advertising copy
Case study - 3 pages - Journalism
The discipline of art history has altered its theoretical preoccupations over the past century to include popular or “low” forms of artistic expression within its avenue of criticism. As such, advertising copy is viewed as a representation of cultural trends, and the fashion industry...
Floatin'
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
Seagulls swarmed above us and prayed their shit would splatter the pristine veneer of the white BMW with the plates “NEW DOCTR” parked alongside the sand. The sound of the waves crashing towards us reminded me of where I was glad I wasn't. The sun was blinding me even from behind my...
The Ecstasy of Grief
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
History thrives on contradiction. There would be no words to fill textbooks if world events and facts did not clearly oppose that which was taught the year before. The reasons behind wars alter like the tides, and entire countries burn to the ground to be built up again under a new leader and a...
Analysis of the anthologized story, "Flowering Judas"
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
The story incorporates a series of flashbacks, although the story of Flowering Judas happens in a period of one evening shortly after the revolution in Obregon in the 1920s. The story begins by the protagonist Laura, an American woman, returning to the hacienda. Laura is a catholic and a virgin,...
Gonococcal Infections
Presentation - 82 pages - Medical studies
Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection of epithelium and commonly manifests as cervicitis, urethritis, proctitis, and conjunctivitis. If untreated, infections at these sites can lead to local complications such as endometritis, salpingitis, tuboovarian abscess, bartholinitis, peritonitis,...
"Physiognomy in The Jungle, The Rise of Silas Lapham, The Marrow of Tradition and The Portrait of a Lady"
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
A red colored complexion signifies a fiery temperament. A yellow or green hue of the skin may hint at sickness. A square jaw means the epitome of masculinity. Authors such as Upton Sinclair, Henry James, Charles W. Chesnutt and William Dean Howells used physiognomy to relay important...
Commentary upon Mary Shelley's statement: "What terrified me will terrify others"
Essay - 5 pages - Literature
In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the Creature in itself is not what is the most terrifying. Indeed, in her dream and in the novel afterwards, if Doctor Frankenstein is afraid at the sight of his creature, it is also its coming to life which creates fear: how can an amount of bones,...
Acupuncture
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
The term acupuncture comes from Latin acus which means “needle” and pungere which means “prick”. In China, the practice of acupuncture can perhaps be traced as far back as the first millennium BC and archeological evidence has been identified during the period of the Han...
Methods of transmission: Dengue fever
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Medical studies
The adventurous tourist, obliviously hacking his way through the jungles of Brazil, is first aware of a faint buzzing noise, then a tiny sting on his arm. The smack of his hand seems to have taken care of the problem: he has merely been bitten by a mosquito, so it seems there is no reason...
Toxic Plant Ingestions
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Biology
Plants have served as both poisons and medicines. Dioscorides listed several hundred plant species in his first Materia Medica in 78 BC. Galen, in second-century Rome, catalogued plants, including those containing opiates, ergotamines, and other alkaloids. Pharmacognosy was established as an...
Increased Physical Activity among Latino Children in the Public Elementary School Decreases Obesity
Case study - 12 pages - Educational studies
Obesity cases have been increasing and become a nutritional issue among the children at the age between 2 - 19 years. Obesity among the Latinos has been an insightful area of study since it has been showing an up-ward trend among the population. There has been a need to reveal the various aspects...
Navigating Cystic Fibrosis: The Integral Role of Pediatric Nurses in Managing Complex Needs
Litterature review - 4 pages - Medical care & personal assistance
Cystic Fibrosis is a dangerous inherited condition that damages children's and young adults' lungs and digestion. The disease is characterized by thick, sticky mucus that complicates respiratory and gastrointestinal issues. As a result, family members suffer chronic clinical problems and...
Bipolar disorder treatment and Vincent Van Gogh's creativity
Essay - 7 pages - Psychology
The term bipolar disorder is used to describe patterns of manic or hypomanic behavior (which is "just under manic" in the way that a hypodermic needle slips just under the skin, for example - and it is also coupled with elevated, expansive or irritable moods) that may or may not alternate...
Pelvic Circulation
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Medical studies
At the bifurcation of the aorta, the middle sacral artery arises posteriorly and travels on the pelvic surface of the sacrum to supply branches to the sacral foramina and the rectum. The common iliac arteries arise at the level of the fourth lumbar vertebra, run anterior and lateral to their...
