individual patients. Some combine a pacemaker anddefibrillator in a single implantable device. Others have multiple electrodes stimulating differing positions within the heart to improve synchronisation of thelower chambers of the heart. In 1958‚ Arne Larsson (1915-2001) became the first to receive an implantable pacemaker. He had a total of 26 devices during his life and campaigned for other patients needing pacemakers. In 1899‚ J A McWilliam reported in the British Medical Journal of his experiments
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Standardized Testing Should Be Stopped Are you one of the many students who cram in hours upon hours of studying the night before an exam that has been stressing you out all week? You wake up the next morning nervous and full of anxiety‚ just to take the same test as everyone else‚ under the same conditions as everyone else. Sounds fair right? Well I don’t believe it is‚ and here’s why. Standardized tests were made to test the knowledge of a student over a particular course or subject. The ACT and
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The book A Journey to the Center of the Earth‚ by Jules Verne is a well-written and easy to read book most of the time. In my essay I’m going to give a description of the books events. The book starts with Professor Hardwigg finding a scrap of paper that says its possible to get to the center of the earth and decides to take the journey. Hardwigg insists that Harry‚ his nephew‚ come with him on the journey. After they got the supplies‚ they start their journey for Mt. Sneffels in Iceland‚ the spot
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Introduction In today’s modern urbanized society‚ a heavy load of responsibility for child care is much needed‚ guiding them as they grow and especially focusing your attention towards them. When the family is good there is usually a stable emotional atmosphere in the home and a consistent method in bringing up the children. But in the other hand‚ based on observations‚ it have implied that when marital relations between the parents are poor (broken)‚ the child may be highly emotionally
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J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott open the first A&W root beer franchise. Hot Mexican food is added to the menu. The addition of hot food inspires the name The Hot Shoppe. Two more Hot Shoppes are added‚ including the East’s first drive-in restaurant. “In-flight” airline catering debuts when Hot Shoppes begins delivery of boxed lunches to passengers at Hoover Airport. Hot Shoppes‚ Inc. stock becomes public at $10.25/share and sells out in two hours of trading. The 365-room Twin Bridges Marriott
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Moscow State University who noticed that a constant electric field caused clay particles dispersed in water to migrate. It is caused by the presence of charges of the surface of the particle and the surrounding fluid. This was perfected in 1937 by Arne Tiselius (1902-1971). It is used in forensic medical laboratories; for example‚ to detect food-adulteration‚ such as soya in pork products. It also has many diagnostic applications‚ for instance‚ demonstrating the presence of abnormal blood-proteins
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Assess the significance of the Cabinet in the Executive Branch The US Cabinet consists of the heads of 15 executive departments and occasionally other important officials that the President decides to include. Some argue that the Cabinet is as important as the President wants it to be. The Cabinet is also said to have a greater input in legislative processes on an individual basis rather than as a collective body. This is known as a Kitchen Cabinet. The Cabinet lacks constitutional legitimacy
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“The artist does not draw what he sees‚ but what he has to make others see” -Edgar Degas (1834-1917) Examine how artists represent their world. The swinging sixties. Marked as a period of popular culture‚ excitement‚ radical behavior and‚ subversive events such as feminism movements‚ civil rights movements‚ technological advances‚ music‚ film and rebellious trends such as the evolving and drug epidemic and flamboyant scandal. So when Lewis Morley photographed infamous protagonist Christine
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When it comes to the languages of my two home countries‚ both represent different versions of what a rainbow nation might be. Both nations saw its population and dialects shift due to scores of immigration and population shifts within its borders over years. In the course of its evolution‚ South Africa now includes 11 languages in its constitution‚ granting each equal rights. Conversely‚ the United States took the approach to having several languages differently. Even though most regard the U.S.
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Authors Biography Mario Eric Gamalinda Born on Oct. 14‚ 1956‚Manila School: UST and UP Occupation: Poet‚ fictionist‚ essayist Currently lives in: New York City‚ USA Currently works at: Center for Investigative Journalism Eric Gamalinda is a local fellow for poetry of the UP ICW in 1983. He went to Great Britain to represent the Philippines in the Cambridge International Writers’ Conference in 1990. In 1991‚ he attended the
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