welfare of their society. However‚ they did not treat sufferers of mental illnesses tenderly. They housed patients in the basement of the Pennsylvania Hospital which had a meager patient capacity. The few patients that were treated there were often shackled to walls. Pennsylvania Hospital eventually expanded to become its own facility‚ the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. Although the Quakers administered cruel treatment‚ their work was a crucial step in the founding of more mental health facilities
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Hospital History • Overview • Pennsylvania Hospital (1751) – Oldest voluntary hospital • Focus on sick‚ poor‚ homeless • Not a focus of care for physicians – Primary care in home/office • Mental illness – First mental hospital in 1772 1 Hospital History (cont.) • Growth of urban areas – Growth of hospitals – Focus on research‚ teaching‚ medical schools • Major discoveries – Anesthesia • Ether • Antibiotics • Sulfa Drugs‚ penicillin (decreased infection rates and mortality)
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role‚ the media and individual journalists experienced all forms of vicissitudes and punishment by the colonial authorities. The origins of the media however predated the nationalist struggle for independence. Without recourse to a repeat of long history here‚ we acknowledge the fact that the Nigerian press is a product of evolution from the early Christian missionary establishment in the South of the country. Between 1842 and 1885‚ the Church Missionary Society‚ the Baptist‚ Methodist and the Catholic
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A Brief History Of Computers The history of computers starts out about 2000 years ago‚ at the birth of the abacus‚ a wooden rack holding two horizontal wires with beads strung on them. When these beads are moved around‚ according to programming rules memorized by the user‚ all regular arithmetic problems can be done. Another important invention around the same time was the Astrolabe‚ used for navigation. Blaise Pascal is usually credited for building the first digital computer in 1642. It added
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ANONG SUBJECT COMPUTER: A History of the Data Machine Submitted by: Zerry Joy Diana C. Riman Submitted to: Sinong Teacher nyo Teache I‚ II‚ III‚ IV CONTENTS Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter I: Before the Computer Chapter II: Creating the Computer Chapter III: Innovation Chapter IV: Getting Personal Bibliography Index Part Three presents a selective history of some key computer innovations in the quarter-century
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THE HISTORY OF COMPUTER VIRUSES A Bit of Archeology There are lots and lots of opinions on the date of birth of the first computer virus. I know for sure just that there were no viruses on the Babbidge machine‚ but the Univac 1108 and IBM 360/370 already had them ("Pervading Animal" and "Christmas tree"). Therefore the first virus was born in the very beginning of 1970s or even in the end of 1960s‚ although nobody was calling it a virus then. And with that consider the topic of the extinct fossil
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know it or not you depend on computers for almost every thing you do in modern day life. From the second you get up in the morning to the second you go to sleep computer are tied into what you do and use in some way. It is tied in to you life in the most obvious and obscure ways. Take for example you wake up in the morning usually to a digital alarm clock. You start you car it uses computers the second you turn the key (General Motors is the largest buyers of computer components in the world). You
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Brief History of Computer Nikita Rechal1 and Sooriyan Aliyoglu2 1Department of Computer Engineering‚ Castle University‚ New City‚ Cyprus a.orther@xx.yy.zz 2MediDeniz Software‚ Old Street‚ New York‚ USA a.etherwen@zzz.com Abstract Computers have wedged themselves into every facet of our lives—they are what we would use as the symbolic representation of the modern world. But did you know that the history of computers dates back to the 1800s?Indeed‚ the history and evolution of computers is quite
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History of Computing Hardware Computing hardware evolved from machines that needed separate manual action to perform each arithmetic operation‚ to punched card machines‚ and then to stored-program computers. The history of stored-program computers relates first to computer architecture‚ that is‚ the organization of the units to perform input and output‚ to store data and to operate as an integrated mechanism. Before the development of the general-purpose computer‚ most calculations were done
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Links: Perlin ’s noise functions introduced (Ref: Perlin‚ Ken. An Image Synthesizer. Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH 85 Proceedings) 19(3) July 1985‚ p. 287-296.) CD-ROMs High Sierra (ISO9660) standard introduced Young Sherlock Holmes stained glass knight (Lucasfilm)‚ 2010 (Boss Films)and Looker (DP) 1986
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