TIME Monday‚ May. 27‚ 2013 The Angelina Effect By Jeffrey Kluger; Alice Park There’s a chilly arithmetic to the way we all get sick. At the end of any year‚ a fixed and knowable number of us will have developed heart disease‚ and another number won’t have. There will be a different entry in the ledger for cancer‚ another for lung disease‚ another for Parkinson’s or dementia or HIV. The people who study those mortal metrics--the actuaries‚ the epidemiologists--don’t give too much thought to the
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Effects of Deforestation The subject of deforestation and the effects that it has on the environment have been heavily debated for a long time; particularly over the last few years. Governments and large lumber companies see large profits in the mass deforestation of forests and state that their actions are having few‚ if any‚ harmful effects on the environment. Most people disagree with this and think that the environmental effects are devastating and will become irreversibly disastrous in the
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6 THE EFFECTS OF URBANISATION ON LIVING CONDITIONS Urbanisation causes changes in the living conditions under which people live and work. Especially in developing countries‚ this often leads to adverse living conditions (see introductory remarks in Section 1.2.5). In the particular setting of urbanising villages‚ there are places where chaotic urbanisation and industrialisation causes hardship‚ particularly for local residents. This is not the whole story‚ however. There are also many positive
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as the full dimensions and progression of the disease. The findings provide powerful leads to new medications and behavioral treatments. This second article in our NIDA Notes Reference Series discusses the central importance of studying drugs’ effects on neurotransmission and describes some of the most common experimental methods used in this research. As with other articles in the series‚ we provide illustrative references from articles published in NIDA Notes. What is Neurotransmission?
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The Effects of The Television The television is a two edged sword that has a lot of impact on our daily lives. It has caused some negative impact on human life. Since watching television is so attractive‚ people read less books or even do not read them at all‚ wasting time‚ and the level of communication with other people decrease with more time spent watching television. One impact of the television that it has replaced the importance of book reading in some societies that we live in today
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left to die near her home in Queens‚ New York. Her death contributed to the social psychological phenomenon called the bystander effect. You would think that Media coverage following her murder spawned a nationwide debate about the disturbing apathy surrounding the events‚ leading to the construction of the social psychological phenomenon known as the bystander effect. The standard way of thinking about topic “The Killing of Genovese has it that ”The attention-grabbing headline was followed by an
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wringing‚ pacing‚ nail biting‚ and heavy breathing are common signs of stress. People also feel physically different when they are stressed. Butterflies in the stomach‚ cold hands and feet‚ dry mouth‚ and increased heart rate are all physiological effects of stress that we associate with the emotion of anxiety. Stress is caused when a person is very angry or depressed and cannot control the anger or depression so he or she holds it in making him or herself stressed out. This can cause that person
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Remember when your parents told you that you could not watch certain channels‚ or went to the extent of blocking channels and shows that came on after dark. Although it may have been frustrating‚ thinking it was just another way for our parents to control us. In actuality our parents were just trying to protect us. They were shielding us from material that may be harmful to us. This is similar to what the government attempts to do with pornography and obscenity laws. Pornography is the portrayal
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The Psychotropic Effect As time progresses‚ the understanding of the human brain continues to grow. Along with this growth‚ there has been an increase in knowledge about psychological disorders. New theories of therapy and treatments evolve from this knowledge. Some of those theories‚ including psychopharmacology or pharmacotherapy‚ involve medication‚ known as psychotropic drugs. The effectiveness and possibility of adverse effects of these medications has been a great controversy in the psychiatric
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As the video stated‚ anyone who has viewed any type of crime drama on television has now been exposed to the CSI effect. Whether or not it impacts their daily responsibilities as a criminal investigator (if that is their career) is their choice. The impact on myself is little to none‚ because I know that the events on television shows‚ as well as movies‚ are almost never the reality of any situation. It is quite fun to imagine everything working out perfectly in the end‚ but we all know that is not
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