Lyme Disease Introduction & Symptoms | Causes & Treatments | Recommended Web Sites Lyme disease is transmitted by tiny ticks of the Ixodidae family and afflicts about 10‚000 people yearly. Initially identified in a group of children in Lyme‚ Conn.‚ the disease has now been found in nearly all states and 18 other countries. About 90 percent of cases are reported in three areas: the northeast and mid-Atlantic states (Massachusetts to Maryland)‚ the upper Midwest (Minnesota and
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Communicable Disease HCS 457 September 24‚ 2012 Heather Steiner Communicable Disease Tuberculosis is a communicable disease that affects a person’s lungs. Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium. Untreated TB can be fatal‚ in the past TB was the leading cause of death in the United States. There are two TB related conditions that exit: latent TB infection and Active TB infection. TB can be transmitted to others when an infected person coughs or sneezes
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Obesity Is A Disease Obesity is a disease that affects one in three members of the American population. The trend of obese Americans has continually increased since 1960‚ and is not showing signs of slowing down. More than half of the adults in America are considered overweight or obese‚ and about thirty-four percent of the total population in the U.S is either overweight or obese. One is considered “overweight” if the body mass index‚ or BMI‚ is twenty-five to twenty-nine kilograms. “Obese”
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male participant is replaced with a machine. To pass the test‚ the interviewer must still not be able to tell between the man and the woman. Today‚ the imitation game is known as the Turing Test and there have been some changes made to it. Instead of the scenario with the man and woman‚ it has been simplified to a person trying to determine if they are speaking with another human or a computer. 2. I do not think the Turing Test is a good way to determine whether a machine is intelligent
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Hardness Tests and Charpy Impact Test Objectives: 1) To compare the hardness between mild steel‚ carbon steel through Vickers Hardness Test. 2) To compare the hardness between High Quality Carbon Steel and ASSAB steel through Rockwell Hardness Test. 3) To compare the hardness between carbon steel and mild steel through Brinell Hardness Test. 4) To study the differences between mild steel and carbon steel upon Charpy Impact Test. Introduction: Hardness is a measure of the resistance
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Some say addiction is a disease not a choice‚ what do you think? With addiction there is no physiological malfunction in the brain. Addiction is a choice; in the moment. It is not a disease like cancer or diabetes. Addiction is not a disease that comes unexpected‚ it is what you choose to do‚ it is a choice. Addiction is chosen not by the brain does it come unexpectedly. “In a true disease‚ some part of the body is in a state of abnormal physiological functioning‚ and this causes the undesirable
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Alzheimer’s disease Written by: Catherine Finney Alzheimer’s disease is a neurological disorder in which the death of brain cells causes memory loss and cognitive decline. A neurodegenerative type of dementia‚ the disease starts mild and gets progressively worse. Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia‚ a general term for memory loss and other intellectual abilities serious enough to interfere with daily life. Alzheimer’s disease accounts for 60 to 80 percent of dementia cases. Alzheimer’s
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Its True Form” is about a new major virus which is the main cause of the nasty common cold. Scientists discovered that there are actually three viruses that cause the common cold‚ not just two like they had thought before. The detection of this sickening virus may enable new treatments for the common cold sometime in the near future. Ann Palmenburg discovered that Rhinovirus C is the nastiest of the rhinoviruses to generate the common cold. By creating a model of the new virus‚ Palmenburg and her
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Metabolic Disease Luise Crinklaw Carrington College What is metabolic disease? Metabolic Disease or syndrome can strike anytime in a person’s lifetime from the very young to the very old and it has even been reported to affect animals. The disease itself takes on many forms and doesn’t affect each person the same way. Treatments vary according to each individual’s symptoms. Now let’s go into what exactly are metabolic disorders
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War Hemingway uses certain repetitive themes and ideas in his book‚ For Whom the Bell Tolls‚ which relate to the grander dogma that he is trying to teach. By using these reoccurring ideas‚ he is able to make clear his views on certain issues and make the reader understand his thoughts. The most notable of this reoccurring theme is that of war. Hemingway uses the war concept as paradoxical irony in this book‚ to tell the reader what the thinks about war. It is even more interesting to note that
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