Determination of Heat Capacity Ratio
Essay - 5 pages - Physics
Objective for experiment 1: To determine the heat capacity ratio of air by following a modernised version of the experiment attributed to Shoemaker. The experiment is to determine the heat capacity ratio of air, by emulating an adiabatic expansion of air. Objective for experiment 2: The...
Neurodegenerative disease - Compare Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease
Essay - 3 pages - Biology
Neurodegeneration refers to the gradual loss of structure and operation of neurons, including death of neurons. The theme of the current paper is to discuss two diseases linked with the neurodegeneration process: Parkinson and Alzheimer disease. Also, the differences between the two diseases will...
Risk factors, etiological factors, clinical manifestations and specific implications of osteomyelitis
Essay - 4 pages - Biology
Osteomyelitis is a microbial infection that infects the bone and associated with fungi, bacteria, and rarely mycobacteria. The microbial infection causes a destructive inflammatory process. Osteomyelitis can happen in any bone in the body. The infection starts with an acute infection, which if...
Advanced knowledge for nurse educators
Essay - 6 pages - Medical studies
Concerns are raised concerning the safety of patients as cases of error and injury escalate globally. To improve the security of patients, nurses are thus supposed to recognize variations in the condition of the patient. Besides, they should be in a position to anticipate orders, prioritize and...
Software requirement development - The airline ticketing reservations software systems
Essay - 3 pages - Computer science
The purpose of this software development is to come up with the system analysis of the actual procedures that are involved in the reservation of airline travel tickets. As such, this should be utilized as efficient as possible to ensure that the advantages of the software are achieved fully. The...
Dental informatics
Essay - 3 pages - Medical studies
Dental Informatics is a relatively new field which has gained popularity in proportion to the increasing use of computer systems in dental practices. Sittig, Mirshner, and Maupome define dental informatics as "Application of computer and information science to improve dental practice, research...
Genetically modified foods: a feeding system in need of improvement?
Essay - 4 pages - Medical studies
Genetically engineered food has become a very controversial topic over the past few decades, and the issue continues to gain importance as more companies are producing genetically engineered/modified foods. The process of genetic engineering involves taking food products, alternating their...
Why does nursing care differ for patients who suffer from dementia?
Essay - 2 pages - Medical studies
Dementia is one of the most difficult symptoms for patients to cope with. There are three main forms of dementia. The most common cause, Alzheimer's disease, is responsible for dementia. It afflicts 4 million Americans (Dolhi and Rogers, 2001). It is a degenerative disease that affects the brain...
The analysis of the link between posttraumatic stress disorder, stress-induced cortisol production, and heart disease
Case study - 5 pages - Medical studies
A number of links between posttraumatic stress disorder, cortisol, and heart disease have been established, although the final synthesis has yet to be developed. The pure correlation between heart disease and posttraumatic stress disorder has become a standard conclusion. Recent studies have...
Lyme disease: history, causes & transmission, effects & symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, prevention
Essay - 4 pages - Medical studies
Lyme disease begins as an infection caused by black-legged ticks. Usually living in wooded areas such as forests, these ticks can attach themselves to the skin of humans and bite them, infecting them a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi (CDC 2008). Several days or weeks after such a bite, a...
Helicopter control and its general models (PPT presentation)
Tutorials/exercises - 29 pages - Physics
Goal of the project: make a software package to determine the helicopter behavior Further applications: - Make dynamic analysis - Study the trajectory - Investigate air combat - Prepare pilot training... Problems: - Very few investigations have been conducted till now - A very accurate...
Whether vegetarianism is good for the heart
Essay - 5 pages - Medical studies
Although many people believe that eating meat is part of a healthy diet, and eating this way is as nature intended, vegetarianism is a popular growing trend among many individuals who are attempting to improve their health. It is a difficult choice to make, and while there are many reasons to...
Smallpox and vaccination in the 19th century
Essay - 2 pages - Medical studies
During the 19th century, medicine and technology were two things very far behind what they are today. There were no guidelines on how to treat patients, and epidemics arose due to the poor standards of living. Therefore, when smallpox broke out, there were many reactions to the incredible...
Isaac Newton's laws of motion
Essay - 2 pages - Physics
It is amazing how each new discovery in science and technology has allowed us as a society to improve our standards of living. What is even more phenomenal is that most of these discoveries were made so far before their time, and have so much influence on the fields of study that are used today....
The positive effect of Internet information gathering on society
Essay - 5 pages - Computer science
Technologist has been pushing technology boundaries beyond our imagination. This has given rise to the digital world and technology is being used as a medium of expression, learning, entertainment and interaction. This has made digital devices the most important part of the human being. This is...
Biography of Mathematician Mr. David Blackwell
Essay - 4 pages - Mathematics
David Blackwell is a famous African-American mathematician who has contributed so much in the field of mathematics in the statisticalfield theory. David was born in 1919 in Illinois. He died in 2010 at the age of 91. He was born to a father who was a worker in a railway station and his mother...
Cancer patients receiving hospice care
Essay - 2 pages - Medical studies
Generally, cancer is a group of diseases that involve abnormal cell growth and the abnormal cell growth has the potential to spread to other body parts. The cancer condition is also referred to as a malignant tumor, but this does not mean all tumors are cancerous. On the other hand, hospice...
Pathophysiology of presenting features - Case based assignment
Essay - 3 pages - Medical studies
Conventionally, the sensation of uncomfortable or difficulty in breathing experienced by John is normally referred to as Dyspnea. The Dyspnea on exertion (DOE) that John reports normally is considered an indication of disease because it occurred at a level of activity that he usually tolerates....
Cancer patients receiving hospital care
Essay - 2 pages - Medical studies
Cancer which is well known as the malignancy, is the unusual growth of cells in the body. Different patients who are having cancer suffer from different types of cancer, which is approximately one hundred. The patient treatment of cancer also varies depending on the type of cancer which include,...
The anomalous properties of water
Essay - 1 pages - Physics
Water may seem like a very simple molecule, but in fact it has many anomalies. These make it hard to predict the properties of water. This essay will explain just a few of its unusual properties.
Are bio active-rich fractions functionally richer?
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Medical studies
Plant bioresources are relied upon as natural, inexpensive, and sustainable remedies for the management of several chronic diseases worldwide. Plants have historically been consumed for medicinal purposes based on traditional belief, but this trend is currently changing. The growing interest in...
Analysis of massive ozone hole found in Earth detergent
Essay - 3 pages - Biology
Technically, ozone hole is not just a hole within which the ozone is not present, however, it actually is an area of extremely depleted ozone within the atmosphere above the Antarctic, which happens during the southern hemisphere spring beginning at around august to October. In other words,...
Healthy alternatives to prescription medications
Essay - 5 pages - Medical studies
Prescriptions that are made for various health problems under conventional Western medical practice often have alternative interventions that are mainly drawn from traditional methods of treatment in various parts of the world. Remarkably, there are a lot of non medicinal interventions that...
Childbirth booth camp : natural childbirth and care
Essay - 5 pages - Medical studies
A childbirth boot camp offers information and knowledge on natural childbirth as well as other topics related with childbirth and care. These camps are mainly designed for educational purposes. This paper provides an examination of current trends in Childbirth Education. In this regard, the...
Active care rehabilitation for patients suffering from back pain
Essay - 2 pages - Medical studies
Active care rehabilitation is the use of different methods of treatments, mostly involving exercises, to facilitate the recovery from injury or a procedure to ensure that the patient regains the original or normal working of the different functional abilities as they did before the injury or...
Surveillance, accumulation of capital and exploitation on social media
Essay - 10 pages - Computer science
New technologies have changed the way people communicate and see each other: we all became the objects of surveillance voluntarily and non-voluntarily. Social networks, closed-circuit television (CCTV) in supermarkets and in railway stations, marketing agencies - all these are slowly turning our...
Composite material failure in aircraft
Essay - 25 pages - Physics
Some composite materials used in construction of aircraft structures started appearing in late 1930s as well as 1940s. Typically, they used to be plasticity impregnated wood materials at that time, with the well know as well as the largest example being Duramold constructing the eight engine...
Ethical consumerism concept and analyses at Google Inc - Case Study
Case study - 3 pages - Computer science
Different companies believe in giving the best products to their consumers through enhancing and promoting their brand in the market. One of the ways that is becoming more popular is Ethical Consumerism where the companies believe that the consumers will take more of their products on the basis...
Computer Crime Rules According to Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)
Essay - 2 pages - Computer science
Computer crime has today become a global phenomenon. It entails the use of a computer to commit a crime or even the criminal exploitation of a computer or the internet. It can as well involve offences committed against people or groups of people mainly with the criminal motive of harming the...
Lassa fever in West Africa
Essay - 12 pages - Medical studies
This paper focuses on Lassa fever in West Africa. The Lassa virus that causes the fever has been considered a member of Old World Arenaviruses. In this regard, it has been solely considered endemic in West Africa. Its full endemicity is nevertheless unclear especially given the poor contact means...
