What is ALS? Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis‚ other name is Lou Gehrig’s Disease‚ is a neurodegenerative disease. It affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Nerves are involved in the process of thinking‚ memory‚ and of detecting sensations (such as hot/cold‚ sharp/dull)‚ and others for vision‚ hearing‚ and other bodily functions. Basically‚ motor neurons provide voluntary movements and muscle power. As motor neurons degenerate‚ they can no longer send impulses to the muscle fibers that
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1968 was awarded to Luis Alvarez "for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics‚ in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states‚ made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis". Alvarez’s colleagues sometimes called him the "prize wild idea man" because of the huge range of his activities. He did all kinds of research into the atomic nucleus‚ light‚ electrons‚ radar‚ and so
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NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER Gadeikytė Giedrė CST 200 Introduction to Conflict Studies 16.04.2012 Leymah Roberta Gbowee Leymah Roberta Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist‚ who was born in 1972 of February 1st‚ responsible for leading a women ’s peace movement that brought an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. When Leymah finished the school and was planning to study medicine‚ when the country began a protracted civil war. She was living with her parents and two of her three sisters in
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Lecture 3 NPTEL Course GROUND IMPROVEMENT Prof. G L Sivakumar Babu Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 560012 Email: gls@civil.iisc.ernet.in Module I Need for Ground Improvement Classification of ground modification techniques Emerging trends in ground Improvement Recap: Classification of Ground Improvement techniques Methods and techniques of Ground Improvement Factors affecting the selection of techniques Need for Soil Improvement Soft Clay Liquefaction
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Akzo Nobel & Dow Chemicals Index Introduction p. 3 External Analysis p. 4 • Chemical Market p. 4 • DESTEP p. 4 Mission And Vision p. 7 Porters Five Competitive Forces p. 8 Financial Analysis p. 10 7s Model p. 13 Swot p. 15 Dow Chemical The Dow Chemical Company was set up in 1947. The company sells and manufactures plastic materials‚ agricultural products and services‚ advanced materials‚ chemicals and other specialized products and services
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Lecture I The literature of England (America) Plan: I Short survey to the literature of England (America) II Directions of the literature: Romanticism. Realism. Naturalism. III Romanticism. Romanticism in literature. Romanticism and society. IV The theory of naturalism. Naturalism in fiction. V Realism.Realism in fiction. American and English literature begins with the orally transmitted myths‚ legends‚ tales and lyrics (always songs) of
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The Bush v Gore incident included George W. Bush‚ Al Gore‚ U.S. Supreme Court‚ and the state of Florida. Bush v Gore illustrates the fundamental power of the U.S. Supreme Court. For the first time in U.S. history the president was decided by the Supreme Court. According to Wade Payson-Denney‚ a journalist for CNN‚ stated that the election was divided by 537 people out of the six million ballots casted in Florida. Al Gore argued that the margin of error was too close being .009% and the possibility
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OSTEOMYELITIS Definition: Osteo- derived from the Greek word osteon meaning bone‚ myelo meaning marrow and –it is meaning inflammation‚ simply means an infection of the bone or bone marrow that results in inflammation‚ necrosis and formation of new bone. Types: 1. Acute osteomyelitis - Bone infection develops within two weeks of an initial infection‚ injury or the onset of the underlying disease. 2. Sub-acute osteomyelitis - Bone infection develops within one to two months of an initial
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1 ME321: Advanced Mechanics of Solids Sumit Basu Room no NL 211 Department of Mechanical Engng IIT Kanpur Email: sbasu@iitk.ac.in Ph: +91 (0) 512 259 7506 (O) +91 (0) 512 259 8511 (R) 8/15/2013 ME321: Advanced Mechanics of Solids Course Objectives 2 • Learn to handle the mechanics of deformable bodies‚ as opposed to rigid body mechanics. • Build on what we have learnt in ESO204. Local approach vs global approach‚ forces and displacements vs stress and strain See deformation
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AL-TADQIQ AL-SHARI’E 1. First line of defence describes the controls an organisation has in place to deal with the day-to-day business activities and operations. Controls are designed into systems and processes and assuming that the design is sound to appropriately mitigate risk‚ compliance with process should ensure an adequate control environment. There should be adequate managerial and supervisory controls in place to ensure compliance and to highlight control breakdown‚ inadequacy of process
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