INTRODUCTION Hepatitis B is the most common serious liver infection in the world and can estimated one third of the Global Population has been infected with the Hepatitis B virus. Therefore it continues to be a major global health problem. (WHO‚ 2009) This infection is highly prevalent to the third world countries which include the Philippines. It is caused by the Hepatitis B virus that attacks the liver and can cause both acute and chronic disease. A single virus particle can cause the disease
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Henrietta’s Cells. It is unfortunate that the Lacks family did not know that research was being done on Henrietta’s cells‚ which made the family feel like they were betrayed by doctors at the Johns Hopkins Hospital‚ but it was a common practice of doctors in the 1950s and consent was not required for research as it is today. Also‚ it is unfair that Samuel Reader and Monroe Vincent‚ the founders of Microbiological associates‚ a cell distribution company‚ made millions off of selling HeLa cells. However
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Significance * The cell phone has become a common product. Almost everyone has a cell phone‚ and they have only been around 35 years and popular for about 15. Yet‚ they have become an indispensable part of daily life. It ’s hard imagining what many would do without them. Function * A cell phone ’s basic function is to make and receive calls from anywhere you have service. Even though they can do more‚ calling is their main function. This function enables a person to make or receive a call
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imagine how life would be without cell phones. Very few people don’t comprehend how much that would affect us. At one point in life people used to mail each other letters to get messages back and forth from one person to another. In this current century those methods has been added to the cell phones. Research Question: How have cell phones changed us socially? How have cell phones impact our lives? Source: South University Online This article showed how cell phones impacted our lives today
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Hepatitis B Vaccine It takes only 3 shots to protect yourself and your loved ones against hepatitis B for a lifetime. In 1981‚ the Food and Drug Administration approved the first vaccine for hepatitis B‚ which was plasma-derived (i.e. made from blood products). This vaccine was discontinued in 1990 and is no longer available in the U.S. The currently used hepatitis B vaccines are made synthetically (i.e. they do not contain blood products) and have been available in the U.S. since 1986. You
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Information‚ in its most restricted technical sense‚ is a sequence of symbols that can be interpreted as a message. Information can be recorded as signs‚ or transmitted as signals. Information is any kind of event that affects the state of a dynamic system. Conceptually‚ information is the message (utterance or expression) being conveyed. The meaning of this concept varies in different contexts.[1] Moreover‚ the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint‚ communication‚ control
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University of Phoenix Material Appendix B Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Stereotypes |Unreliable‚ exaggerated generalizations about all members of a group that do not take individual | | |differences into account. | |Prejudice
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A solar cell (also called photovoltaic cell or photoelectric cell) is a solid state electrical device that converts the energy of light directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. Assemblies of cells used to make solar modules which are used to capture energy from sunlight‚ are known as solar panels. The energy generated from these solar modules‚ referred to as solar power‚ is an example of solar energy. Photovoltaics is the field of technology and research related to the practical
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FIRO-B Reflection Paper FIRO-B is a totally different assessment from Myers-Briggs because the purpose of Myers-Briggs is for our personal characteristics‚ the internal side; the purpose of FIRO-B is for our interpersonal aspect‚ the external side. Because of this assessment‚ I am able to rethink how I get along with people and how I deal with my relationship. Even though I did not get any high point for these results‚ there are still some aspects I want to share my perspective. It is very interesting
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Recently‚ there has been a debate about rather or not laws that govern induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cells differ from those currently in place for human embryonic stem (ES) cells. An IPS cell is created artificially from skin‚ fat and fibroblasts by reprogramming patient ’s own cells. Scientists believe IPS cells to be a promising source for treating diseases. An ES cell is created by destroying an embryo. Other scientists think ES cells will also be a promising source because it is composed of
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