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    brain drain

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    —PLINY‚ the Younger The term ’Brain-drain’ has recently come into vogue for describing the flight of talent from our country to another. Often‚ it is loosely employed to describe all migration of educated and talented persons to countries abroad in search of better careers even though their services may be badly needed in their native land‚ and thus‚ this exodus of talent‚ depletes a country’s intellectual resources and tells on national life. However‚ the problem of ’Brain-drain’ is not peculiar to

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    A UNITED Nations Educational‚ Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) report in 1969‚ had defined brain drain as‚ ’an abnormal form of scientific exchange between countries‚ characterised by a one- way flow in favour of the most highly developed countries’. Almost four decades later‚ the definition of brain drain has not changed a great deal with talented students still leaving the shores of developing countries in pursuit of better opportunities in the developed nations. To think of it‚

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    Brain Trauma

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    Memory Loss Due to Brain Trauma Numerous psychological studies have been done over the subject of the effects of accidental head trauma leading to various memory problems such as memory loss. These studies ranging from the very mild to the extremely severe brain traumas cases and has various effects on memory whether it is short term of long term memory problems and loss. This paper is going to more specifically cover vehicular accidents that involved head trauma leading to memory loss and other

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    Brain drain When highly qualified experts like scientists‚ engineers‚ doctors and oft trained persons migrate from under-developed countries and settle down: advanced countries‚ their migration is called “Brain Drain”. This problem is not peculiar to India alone. It is being faced by almost all the developing country of the world. Brain drain results in direct loss to the underdeveloped and poor countries who train these experts at a great cost. When these experts migrate to advance countries

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    Brain In Othello

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    for how video games (VG) improve the human brain‚ but also heavy criticism whenever someone sees a member of the gaming community do something unacceptable: they let one decision forever stain the image of the community. Othello has deemed himself worthy to the people of Venice through his achievement to becoming one of the most respected Military Generals

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    Brain Candy

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    Have you ever heard that too much television can ruin a child’s mind? Malcolm Gladwell proposes in his article‚ “Brain Candy‚” that playing video games or watching television is just as important as reading a book. Gladwell is using rhetorical appeals to prove that in fact‚ video games are not dumbing down society. Pop culture is helping to improve test scores and knowledge. In “Brain Candy‚” Malcolm Gladwell does affectively use rhetorical appeals to convince his audience that pop culture is making

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    Caffeine In The Brain

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    like coffee and tea. Caffeine can also be found in soft drinks‚ and it is regarded as the most widely consumed stimulant drug in the world based on Nehlig‚ Daval‚ & Debry (1992) research. The interaction of caffeine with adenosine receptors in the brains makes an individual more alert. A moderate intake of caffeine results in small healthy risks while high doses could be a catalyst to negative effects like anxiety‚ insomnia‚ and tachycardia. Research has shown that caffeine is widely abused. Clinical

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    Free sample essay on The Problem of Brain Drain in India. India has spent a great amount of her income and wealth in creating scientific‚ technological and educational infrastructure. Brain drain may be defined as emigration‚ especially from developing and underdeveloped countries to developed ones‚ by intellectuals‚ experts‚ highly qualified professionals like scientists‚ engineers‚ doctors‚ economists and other technically trained persons. It means depletion of intellectual‚ professional and

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    Brain Drain

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    TOPIC: CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS OF DRAIN BRAIN In my view‚ another cause of drain brain is that working and studying environment in home country is limited. We haven’t created the best conditions to develop skills of people yet. As we know‚ in developed countries around the world‚ science and technology develop fast. So people living in poor and developing countries tend to go abroad to live‚ study and find job more and more. If they live in developed countries‚ they can have high living standard

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    The novel Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff‚ set in the early 90s‚ is about fourteen-year-old girl La Vaughn who takes on a babysitting job. She needs to work her way through school to save enough money to get through college. She means to study‚ to get a better job‚ to escape the poverty that she is growing up in. She babysits for Jolly‚ a seventeen-year-old mother of two‚ Jeremy and Jilly. The place where this little family live is disgusting. The children are filthy and deprived of all

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