BIOL 2010 ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY I Chapter 4: TISSUES AND MEMBRANES Outline of Notes I. Introduction. A. General: Cells are highly specialized and interdependent on one another. Groups of similar cells performing similar functions are called Tissues The study of tissues is called Histology. Organs are made of tissues. A detailed understanding of tissues will greatly help your understanding of organs and organ systems later in this course. Tissues are classified into 4 main types:
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Evidence-Based Gerontology One of the most important things about the Okinawa Centenarian Study is the fact that it is based on solid evidence. The most important evidence needed for any centenarian study is reliable age-verification data. Throughout Japan (including Okinawa prefecture)‚ every city‚ town‚ and village records birth‚ marriage and death data (among other data) in a koseki (family register). This system was instituted throughout Japan in the 1870’s. The koseki is supplemented by a regular
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Katarina Palmer Dr. Miranda BIOL 1406 29 March 2017 Chlamydia Definition: Chlamydia (kla-mid-ee-uh) is a very common disease is caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis and is contracted through sexual intercourse: anal‚ oral‚ vaginal. (NWHRC Health Center‚ 2005) This sexually transmitted disease affects both men and women of any age. Chlamydia trachomatis is a Gram-negative bacterium that infects not only the columnar epithelium of the cervix but the urethra‚ and rectum as well. Also a common
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Solomon H. Snyder BORN: Washington‚ D.C. December 26‚ 1938 EDUCATION: Georgetown College‚ Washington‚ D.C. (1955–1958) Georgetown Medical School‚ Washington‚ D.C. M.D. Cum Laude (1962) APPOINTMENTS: Research Associate‚ NIH‚ (1963–1965) Resident‚ Psychiatry‚ Johns Hopkins (1965–1968) Assistant (1966–1968)‚ Associate (1968–1970)‚ Full (1970– ) Professor‚ Johns Hopkins‚ Pharmacology and Psychiatry Distinguished Service Professor of Neuroscience Pharmacology and Psychiatry‚ Johns Hopkins
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Dragonflies: Behaviour and Ecology of Odonata. Comstock Publishing Associates‚ Ithaca‚ New York. Samways‚ M.J.‚ Steytler‚ N.S.‚ 1996. Dragonfly (Odonata) distribution patterns in urban and forest landscapes‚ and recommendations for riparian management. Biol. Conserv. 78‚ 279– 288. SUH‚ A. N. & SAMWAYS‚ M. J.‚ 2005: Significance of temporal changes when designingareservoir forconservation of dragonfly diversity. Biodiversity and conservation 14‚ 165–178. R. M. Olberg‚ K. R. Venator‚ & A. M. Worthington
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Luis Solano BIOL 451 Dr. Vance McCracken April 27‚ 2012 Neisseria gonorrhea Neisseria gonorrhea‚ or Gonorrhea‚ is a sexually transmitted disease that is considered the second most dominant in the world. This disease has very interesting components that includes a location of where it likes to “live” in the human host‚ distinct symptoms‚ virulence factors that help defend against the host immune system‚ and how it can survive from host to host. All of these factors go into what is necessary to
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Turner Syndrome Allie Fitzgerald BIOL 150 11/22/11 Turner syndrome (TS) is a genetic condition in which a female does not have the usual pair of two X chromosomes (“What is TS?”). This condition was named after Dr. Henry Turner‚ who was one of the first researchers to describe the features of Turner’s Syndrome in 1930s. TS occurs in about 1 female out of every 2‚000 female births‚ but is much more common in miscarriages. A diagnosis of TS is made through a karyotype test. This is performed
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Cited: (1) Charvet-Almeida‚ P.‚ M. L. G. DE Araújo‚ and M. P. De Almeida and Barthem‚ RB.2010. Diet of the freshwater stingray Potamotrygon motoro (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae) on Marajó Island (Pará‚ Brazil). Braz. J. Biol. [online]. 2010‚ vol.70‚ n.1‚ pp. 155-162 (2) Silva‚ T.B. & Uieda‚ V.S. 2007. Preliminary data on the feeding habits of the freshwater stingrays Potamotrygon falkneri e Potamotrygon motoro (Potamotrygonidae) from the Upper Paraná River basin‚ Brazil
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A DEBATE FOR THE AGES Nature Versus Nurture Jason Walter Liberty University Psych 101 The nature versus nurture debate is one of the most enduring in the field of psychology. In the 17th century the French philosopher René Descartes set out views which held that we all‚ as individual Human Beings‚ possess certain in-born ideas that enduringly underpin our approach to the world. The British philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke‚ on the other hand‚ took a more empirical approach emphasizing
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Journal of Hydrology 468–469 (2012) 101–110 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Journal of Hydrology journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jhydrol A gap-filling model for eddy covariance latent heat flux: Estimating evapotranspiration of a subtropical seasonal evergreen broad-leaved forest as an example Yi-Ying Chen a‚ Chia-Ren Chu b‚ Ming-Hsu Li a‚⇑ a b Graduate Institute of Hydrological and Oceanic Sciences‚ National Central University‚ Taiwan Department of Civil Engineering
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