Epilepsy is a very common disorder and the international researches and surveys shows that 1 adult from 200 people suffers by epilepsy. There are several forms of epilepsy and every form causes another epileptic attack. Epilepsy is spread world wide, but it is a fact that this disorder is not well understood. Epilepsy strikes whomever at any a...
Lime Disease Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, which is a tick-borne spirochete. The dangers of this disease became more publicised in 1977, where a geographic grouping of children in Lyme, Conneticut were thought to have juvenile rheumatoid arthritis1. Soon after, it was discovered that lyme disease was an illness t...
(May 1987) By Martin H. Goodman MD (this essay is in the public domain) Introduction:AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS disease is at present a sentence of slow but inevitable death. I?ve already lost one friend to AIDS. I may soon lose others. My own sexual behavior and that...
Alzheimer's Disease Alzheimer's Disease is a progressive and irreversible brain disease that destroys mental and physical functioning in human beings, and invariably leads to death. It is the fourth leading cause of adult death in the United States. Alzheimer's creates emotional and financial catastrophe for many American families every year...
Not All Black And White Christmas is a time of joy, but the Christmas of 1988 was one of revelation for me. My best friend of 15 years unveiled her deepest, darkest, most private secret; she was bulimic. I was unfamiliar with the disorder at the time, but when she told me of her 7 year struggle with anorexia and bulimia,...
Cloud formations have always been observed by people, many centuries before our time. People were always fond of clouds. They always wondered why some clouds were dark and others were white and fluffy, and why some clouds are so up high and others were so low that they looked reachable by the human hands. The most recent classi...
Finding good day care can certainly pose a problem these days, unless, of course, you?re an African widow bird. When it comes time for a female widow bird to lay her eggs, she simply locates the nest of a nearby Estrildid finch and surreptitiously drops the eggs inside. That?s the last the widow bird ever sees of her offspring...
Endangered Species All over the world there are species of animals and plants that are said to be "endangered". By calling them endangered, scientists say that they think the species will become extinct if something isn't done about them. Many more species are now threatened with extinction than ther should be because of many reasons. A sp...
1.0 INTRODUCTION 2 FACTS AND FINDINGS 2 2.4.1 Passwords 6 2.4.2 Data Encryption and decryption 6 2.4.3 Historical and Statistical Logging 7 2.4.4 Closed User Groups 7 2.2.5 Secure Transmission Facilities 7 2.2.6 Firewalls 7 2.2.7 Physical security 8 APPENDIX B 9 APPENDIX C 9 Security: How do you secure...
Case Study: "The InFLUence of the Influenza" The patient Terry B. (Case no.19), has acquired the microbial agent Pneumonia Influenza. The patient is a three year old white male with a headache, lethargy and was running a high fever of 39.7 degrees Celsius. He has suffered from a previous illness of infection of the upper respiratory. Due...
In the last 10 years, there has been some scientific leaps concerning diabetes, and genetic engineering. The increasing incidence and diagnostic detection of diabetes worldwide coupled with changing trends in the food animal market stimulated people to seek alternative sources of insulin completely independent of an animal-gland source. (Ryan,...
Alligator mississippiensis is in the family Crocodylidae. This family has existed since the upper Triassic period, but the modern family members appear in the fossil record as little as 80 million years ago. There are three subfamilies, Alligatorinae, Crocodylinae, and Gavaialinae. Some people also include a fourth subfamily, Tomistominae, w...
Compounds That Compose the Human Body There are five major groups of compounds that compose the human body. They are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleotides, and water. These are all very important to humans and without them we would not be able to survive. They have many functions that encourage a human cell and a human body to f...
is a very unique and abnormal mental disease. What makes it so interesting is that it causes physical symptoms that someone would not normally experience. ?Mental conflicts are unconsciously converted to symptoms that appear to be physical, but for which no organic cause is found?( 1). One major outburst of hysteria occurred in 1692, result...