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    Anyone can take part in a crime act‚ but there are individuals whose situation‚ environment and health will place them at a higher risk of committing crimes. These crimes fall into four main factors; psychological‚ biological‚ economic and social. one or more of these factors are used to explain an individual’s act s act of criminal offence. The more risk factors an individual has‚ the greater the risk of their crime. The psychological factor is broken down into four key traits‚ which will be explored

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    Outline and evaluate the biological therapies for phobic disorders (8+16) One biological therapy for phobic disorders is chemotherapy. Drug therapies include Anti-Anxiety drugs‚ Beta blockers and Antidepressants. They aim to alter abnormal behaviour by intervening directly in bodily processes (helps with the symptoms).Those that experience psychological problems or show disturbed behaviour patterns go to their family doctors. The first line of treatment is medical. Drug therapies are most common

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    here that will eat them. A few species of birds in the states will go after these stink bugs‚ but their natural predators are left back in Asia. So‚ entomologists have begun to study some Asian parasitic wasps that might make good candidates for biological controls for the stink bugs in the states. This article can relate to our course because it is describing an introduced specie. I can connect to this article because I hate these bugs‚ mainly because they are everywhere and once I get rid of one

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    What is Motivation? What is Motivation? According to the text‚ motivation is defined in three components; Biological‚ Learned‚ and Cognitive. Also‚ motivation is a set of influences that activate‚ direct and maintain behavior‚ commonly toward a certain goal. Motivation is the drive that makes us do things: this is a result of our individual needs being satisfied so that we have the inspiration to complete the mission. These desires vary from person to person as everybody has their needs to motivate

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    symptoms are feeling hopeless and helpless‚ a lack of self-esteem‚ find everything less enjoyable‚ difficulty making decisions‚ having suicidal thoughts and harming one self and etc. Biological approach - Depression Depression can be common between families and past onto generations‚ however there can be other biological effects. Depression running in families was a known for a while‚ however until recently it was discovered that people could have interpreted the disorder from the environment. If the

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    of sexual orientation have been attempted to be described with biological and environmental theories‚ though none is sufficient to explain the cause. Sexual orientation has been attributed to differences in structure and function of brain‚ specifically in hypothalamus of straight and gay men (LeVay‚ 1991). Though the research doesn’t establish hypothalamus as the cause of sexual orientation‚ it does indicate the presence of biological factor causing the sexual orientation. Several other studies concerning

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    EE5904/EE5404 Neural Network 2014/1/16 EE5904/ME5404 Neural Networks Lecture 1 EE5904R/ME5404: Neural Networks Xiang Cheng Associate Professor Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering The National University of Singapore Phone: 65166210 Office: Block E4-08-07 Email: elexc@nus.edu.sg EE5904/ME5404 Neural Networks 1 Lecture 1 Lecturers •Dr. Xiang Cheng •Dr. Chen Chao Yu‚ Peter‚ Dept. of Mechanical Engineering‚ NUS Teaching Assistant •Ramesh Bharath Office:

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    The biological approach can be useful to explain why Afina sometimes damages the school property by behaving in a deviant and antisocial manner. This approach assumes that there is a genetic predisposition which accounts for aggression and there is supporting evidence for this from research studying twins. For example‚ McGuffin and Gottesman (1985) found that 87% of identical twins shared aggression levels compared to only 60% of non-identical twins‚ supporting the basis of genes in the influence

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    seem to be a result of a combination of biological‚ psychological and other individual factors (CAMH‚ 2014). If one feels nervous or fearful about a situation‚ this is normal‚ but if the feelings are ongoing and creates significant distress and causes disruption in daily living (CAMH‚ 2014)‚ then this is considered a disorder. An anxiety disorder‚ like a panic attack‚ can strike without warning and is accompanied by physical symptoms of heart

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    Bioresource Technology 100 (2009) 1192–1196 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Bioresource Technology journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/biortech Optimization of culture conditions for hydrogen production by Ethanoligenens harbinense B49 using response surface methodology Wan-Qian Guo a‚ Nan-Qi Ren a‚*‚ Xiang-Jing Wang b‚ Wen-Sheng Xiang b‚ Jie Ding a‚ Yang You a‚ Bing-Feng Liu a a b State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment‚ Harbin Institute of

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