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12 Oct 2024

Research methods - Dementia

Case study - 2 pages - Medical studies

Dementia, a chronic and progressive neurological disease afflicting millions of people globally, is a condition that lowers cognitive functions such as memory, reasoning, and problem-solving. Cancer is dealt with globally by identifying factors and preventing and supporting it.

12 Oct 2024

Race and Cardiovascular Health Related to Health Literacy

Litterature review - 3 pages - Medical studies

In examining the correlations between race and cardiac ailments, it is essential to have insight into this subject's place in the bigger scheme of public health and equitable healthcare. Therefore, searching for pertinent information on race and cardiovascular health is necessary, drawing...

12 Oct 2024

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...

12 Oct 2024

Prep for Women Promotes HIV Prevention Options for Women

Case study - 4 pages - Medical studies

In this stage connected to preventing HIV and Prep, it is evident that people have started to recognize the advantages of using Prep as an effective way to prevent transmission. This change is caused by increased awareness derived from several sources like association with healthcare...

11 Oct 2024

Lab experiment to determine the anatomy and physiology of the renal system

Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Medical studies

The mammalian urinary tract is an organ system that primarily functions in collecting, transporting, storing, and eliminating urine from the body in a series of complex steps that are highly coordinated. The constant filtration and flow of blood and urine within the renal system, i.e. in the...

02 Oct 2024

Immunology - The Role of Autoantibodies in Autoimmune: Disorders/Diseases

Essay - 3 pages - Medical studies

Antibodies that respond with self-antigens are known as natural antibodies or autoantibodies. Such antigens can be highly specific for a particular type of cell in one organ or found in multiple cell types. Autoantibodies act as the first line of defense in the body in resistance to infections...

02 Oct 2024

Microbiology - Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Staphylococcus aureus

Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Biology

Staphylococcus aureus is a gram-positive bacterium that can cause various ailments in the human body, some of which are lethal. It can be classified into methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus. Over the years, it has formed a multidrug...

02 Oct 2024

Biochemistry - Water

Course material - 4 pages - Chemistry

Since the shape of a water molecule is not linear, instead it is a "V" shape of 104.5 degrees between two covalent bonds, it creates a partial positive and partial negative charge on the water molecule. Hence, it is known as a dipole. This is because oxygen has a negative charge and hydrogen as a...

02 Oct 2024

Can new knowledge change established values or beliefs?

Essay - 4 pages - Biology

My exhibition will explore the theme "knowledge and the knower." Knowledge is an ever-evolving aspect of life; there is no actual limit to knowledge; hence along the timeline of this universe, humans will keep on making discoveries revealing new Knowledge, which may influence our established...

02 Oct 2024

The Effect Of Piper betle Extract On The Different Digestive Enzymes And Vitamin C Concentration In The Piper betle Extract

Dissertation - 30 pages - Biology

The centuries-old tradition of chewing Piper betle, an aromatic creeper belonging to the piperaceae family , more commonly referred to as "paan" in India, after every meal has a reason linked to it, the benefits to eating the betel leaf have shown to promote digestion and bring a variety of other...

02 Oct 2024

Case-Based Learning - Sepsis

Case study - 3 pages - Medical studies

A 34-year-old nursery schoolteacher at 34 weeks' gestation contacted her community midwife complaining of a sore throat, feeling shivery and achy skin to 'flu-like' symptoms. She also reported nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and generally feeling unwell. The midwife arranged for...

02 Oct 2024

What is the degree of unsaturation of oils (0.5g) such as edible coconut oil, olive oil, sunflower oil, groundnut oil and mustard oil at 200°C using Iodine number?

Tutorials/exercises - 15 pages - Chemistry

An integral part of our Indian culture is food, quite a lot of the food requires to be fried in various types of oil. Presumably this has quite an effect on our health which brings me to my motive of choosing this RQ, I would like to find the optimal type of oil that can be used to fry food while...

02 Oct 2024

What is Cholecystitis?

Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Medical studies

Cholecystitis or acute cholecystitis is caused due to the inflammation of the gallbladder, usually this happens when a gallstone blocks the cystic duct. Acute cholecystitis can be divided into two types, calculous and acalculous cholecystitis (NHS Inform, 2019). The main opening of the...

02 Oct 2024

If we conclude that there is some knowledge we should not pursue on ethical grounds, how can we determine the boundaries of acceptable investigation within an area of knowledge?

Essay - 4 pages - Medical studies

Ethics come into play in almost all fields of investigation; it is the line separating right and wrong, telling an individual to what extent they can go without breaking ethical boundaries. An ethical question is raised when an individual crosses or breaks ethical boundaries; boundaries are the...

02 Oct 2024

Investigating mutation of human ?-globin gene by PCR

Case study - 6 pages - Medical studies

This comprehensive study investigates the molecular basis of sickle cell anaemia (SCA) by employing bioinformatics tools and PCR techniques to analyze mutations in the HBB gene. The research effectively differentiates between wild-type and mutant gene sequences by designing specific primers. The...

02 Oct 2024

Investigating the osmotic fragility of erythrocytes and investigating the components making up human blood

Case study - 5 pages - Medical studies

The document is an example of project which can be submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the BSc (Hons) Degree in Biomedical Science. "This experiment is important because it teaches us how the blood is tested in labs for their osmotic fragility. (...)"

02 Oct 2024

Evaluate and Discuss the Current UK Bowel Cancer Screening Programme

Case study - 3 pages - Medical studies

Bowel cancer sometimes referred to as colorectal cancer (CRC) is a disease that can be caused due to a multitude of factors. Statistically, it is known to be the third most diagnosed cancer after breast cancer and lung cancer (National Cancer Institute, 2013). CRC is also known to cause the...

02 Oct 2024

Investigating if there is a correlation existing between the capacity and cost of a refrigerator, if the choice of the refrigerator is independent of gender or not and how a drink stays cold in the long run

Worksheets - 12 pages - Mathematics

Refrigerators are an accessory found in nearly every household, each household chooses the refrigerator they purchase based on their need (capacity) and budget (cost). Refrigerators in today's world are considered a necessity more than a luxury due to rising global warming, people need a...

02 Oct 2024

Kinetics of p-nitrophenyl phosphate hydrolysis by mucosal alkaline phosphatase, emphasizing competitive inhibition

Worksheets - 10 pages - Chemistry

This study investigates the kinetics of p-nitrophenyl phosphate hydrolysis by mucosal alkaline phosphatase, emphasizing competitive inhibition. Using spectrophotometry at 405 nm, enzyme activity rates were determined across various substrate concentrations. The Lineweaver-Burk plot, transforming...

29 Jun 2024

BlackBerry case study

Case study - 3 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

The original Blackberry came at a time of great technological innovation, in the early 2000s. Devices were sprawling, from mp3 players to PDAs, wireless phones and even digital cameras. Personal technological devices began to spread into the mainstream, even though wireless phones and pagers were...

15 Jun 2024

Mangroves

Case study - 2 pages - Biology

Mangroves are subject to particular climatic factors. Firstly, they are subject to rapid fluctuations in temperature (Hendy et al., 2014). Light levels vary according to the closure of the canopy (Taureau, 2017). Secondly, their location between land and sea means that they experience alternating...

15 May 2024

The Gamebuino concept: a survey about coding experience and gaming habits

Case study - 16 pages - Computer science

The survey is made up of 19 questions, and these fall into the following categories: - Questions 1 to 3: demographics and education properties of the sample. - Questions 4 to 8: the sample's IT use and familiarity with coding. - Questions 9 to 12: gaming habits and platforms of choice for the...

09 Apr 2024
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International Engineering Management - Toyota

Case study - 9 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

There are numerous strategies that lead Toyota to first place in the automobile industry. This report will provide an opportunity to better understand the company's history, recognize the main factors that bring success to the business, and analyze cultural analysis between China and South...

27 Mar 2024

Quantum States and Wavefunctions

Presentation - 10 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

Quantum states and wavefunctions are fundamental concepts in quantum mechanics, providing a mathematical description of the state of a quantum mechanical system. These concepts are essential for understanding the behavior of particles at the quantum level and have profound implications for...

20 Mar 2024

Processing of Polymeric Materials - 3D FDM printing

Course material - 6 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

3D printing is an additive manufacturing technique that proceeds by the addition of material in successive layers, dating back to the 1980s. This process contrasts with conventional subtractive manufacturing techniques such as machining. This technology enables the production of volumetric parts...

20 Feb 2024

Quantum Computing Versus Turing Machines

Course material - 1 pages - Computer science

Quantum computing refers to the process of using modern bit-based machines to process large amounts of information. Quantum computers deal with intertwined electrons that are superposed and entangled to enable the machine process large data sets, rendering the classically intractable simulation...

20 Feb 2024

Double versus Single Checking Interventions

Course material - 1 pages - Medical studies

There are various nursing interventions which have been put in place to reduce the number of medication errors, and a majority of these are focused on the reduction of errors which are associated with the dispensation of prescribed medications.

04 Feb 2024

Beyond Algorithms: The Symphony of AI and Healthcare

Case study - 3 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

In the dawning light of the new day Emma slowly wakes to the gentle chime of the digital assistant, the artificial intelligence-driven sentinel for her health. It's already analyzed her sleep patterns, her vital signs, and the local weather forecast with a high likelihood of a migraine...

07 Jan 2024

Excel statistics exercise

Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Mathematics

Our sample is made up of 30 individuals, including 11 women (36.6%) and 19 men (63.3%). Our database includes 4 variables: 1) gender, which is a binary variable (male or female); 2) fair-play score, where the higher the value, the better the individual; 3) number of fouls, where the higher the...

06 Jan 2024

Embedded and Industrial Computer Systems Term Project

Presentation - 50 pages - Computer science

This document contains a presentation regarding a project entitled "Embedded and Industrial Computer Systems Term".