”(The American Heritage Dictionary‚ Sec Ed) Water is the most abundant resource in the human body‚ and accounts for about two thirds of total body weight. This means a 150 lb man has roughly 10 gallons of water distributed throughout his body. (Merck Manual‚ Home Ed.) It’s seems hard to believe we’re carrying around that much water‚ let’s take a look at where we keep all that water. Take a look at the following picture to get an idea of the percent of body water through different stages in life
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Celia Brecht Honors Freshman English Mr. Fry 9 February 2013 Ethics in Neonatology: Save the Babies! Ethics are a big part of neonatology. Ethics involve the treatment of the newborn and who gets to decide their treatment plan. The history of neonatology has greatly affected the way ethics are viewed today. When neonatology was relatively new‚ doctors often did not care about the infant’s pain. Because physicians know about the pain of a newborn now‚ they can assess the treatment plans
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Financial Management SBB Fundamentals COURSE GUIDE Leiden University Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Science Based Business Program March 2011 © 2011 All rights reserved Centre for Business Studies (CBW) Leiden University Except as allowed under Dutch Copyright Law (1912)‚ no part of this material may be reproduced or transmitted in any form‚ by any means‚ electronic or mechanical‚ including photocopying‚ recording‚ or any information storage and retrieval system
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Animal health products are subject to extensive and increasingly stringent regulations. The animal health sector is highly competitive with top 10 players accounting for around 80% of the total market in 2011. Major market players include Pfizer‚ Merck‚ Merial‚ Elanco and Bayer. The report analyzes the global animal health market‚ with focus on its major segments. It also analyzes some of the major regional markets‚ including the US‚ the UK‚ China and
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the early 1950s‚ but his methods were not efficient for mass production. The challenge of mass-producing the drug was daunting. On March 14‚ 1942‚ the first patient was treated for streptococcal septicemia with U.S.-made penicillin produced by Merck & Co. Half of the total supply produced at the time was used on that one patient. By June 1942‚ there was just enough U.S. penicillin available to treat ten patients. A moldy cantaloupe in a Peoria‚ Illinois market in 1943 was found to contain the
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PERICARDITIS The heart is a strong muscular organ that is responsible for sustaining life. During the course of the lifespan‚ many different types of illness or injury can interfere with the heart and its functioning. The heart is located within a sac‚ a double layered‚ flexible holding vessel that is named the pericardium. The pericardium is responsible for keeping the heart in the proper place. It is also the reason that the heart does not fill with more blood than it can hold. This
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API PRESENTATTION Some Definitions- Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API): A substance or compound that is intended to be used in the manufacture of a pharmaceutical product as a therapeutically active compound (ingredient) Enantiomers: cpds with same molecular formula as substance but differ in spatial arrangement of atoms and are non-superimpossable mirror images Polymorphism: Occurrence of different crystalline forms of the same substance Degradation product : Molecule resulting
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Borderline Personality Disorder Jane Doe College of My Choice Borderline Personality Disorder “Personality traits are patterns of thinking‚ perceiving‚ reacting‚ and relating that are relatively stable over time and in various situations” (Porter & Kaplan‚ 2011‚ p. 1553). Personality traits normally begin at adolescence. Most of these traits are upheld through most of life‚ while some of these traits change as we get older. “A personality disorder is a long-lasting
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Fly lab report p. 1 SAMPLE LAB REPORT Perception of Different Sugars by Blowflies by Alexander Hamilton Biology 101 October 24‚ 2009 Lab Partners: Sharon Flynn‚ Andi Alexander ABSTRACT Fly lab report p. 2 To feed on materials that are healthy for them‚ flies (order Diptera) use taste receptors on their tarsi to find sugars to ingest. We examined the ability of blowflies to taste monosaccharide and disaccharide
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The Spectrophotometer Determination Of Protein Concentrations And The Effects Sodium Dodecyl Sulphate And Triton X-100 Have On Protein Concentration. INTRODUCTION Spectroscopy is used as a collective term for all the analytical techniques based on the interaction of light and matter. Spectrophotometry is one of the branches of spectroscopy where we measure the absorption of light by molecules that are in a gas or vapour state or dissolved molecules/ions (Tombs‚ et.al‚ 1959). Spectroscopy is the
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