Hazards of Electricity 1. Electric Shock 2. Fire / Short Circuit 3. Electric Burns Confidential Slide Electric Shock It is sudden & accidental stimulation of the body’s nervous system by electric current. It is the result of passage of electric current through the human body Confidential Slide • Most widely recognised danger of electricity. • When a person standing on the ground touches a live wire‚ or touches a live tool or machine with poor insulation or hits a live cable‚ then a person
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or excessive perspiration –Loss of consciousness may occur First aid care –Encourage victim to relax and reassure victim constantly –Position in a comfortable position to relieve pain and assist breathing –Watch for signs of shock and treat as needed –Avoid unnecessary stress and excessive movement –Obtain medical help ASAP Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA) Also called stroke‚ apoplexy or cerebral thrombosis 7 UNIT 15 Causes: –Formation of
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Laws of Supply and Demand The market price of a good is determined by both the supply and demand for it. In the world today supply and demand is perhaps one of the most fundamental principles that exists for economics and the backbone of a market economy. Supply is represented by how much the market can offer. The quantity supplied refers to the amount of a certain good that producers are willing to supply for a certain demand price. What determines this interconnection is how much of a
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The Business Cycle The long-run trend of the U.S. economy is one of economic growth. But growth has been interrupted by periods of economic instability usually associated with business cycles. Business cycles are alternating rises and declines in the level of economic activity‚ sometime over several years. Individual cycles (one “up” followed by one “down”) vary substantially in duration and intensity. Origin of the Idea O 26.1 Business cycles Phases of the Business Cycle Figure
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discusses research undusted on how international students adapt to a new study circumstance‚ and what area they are not satisfied within the new country. 78 students from the result of this report ‚ we found that most international students have culture shock‚ have difficulties with an imitating academic conventions‚ government treats. 1. Introduction International student numbers have dramatically increased in Australia over the last decade. Universities have been obliged to make changes
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the "learner" to read them back and was instructed to administer a shock by pressing a button each time the learner made a mistake. It was understood that the electric shocks were to be of increased by 15 volts in intensity for each mistake the "learner" made during the experiment‚ while the actor/learner screamed and yelled louder every time. The participant believed that for every wrong answer‚ the learner was receiving actual shocks. In Fact‚ there was a pre-determined script that the teacher had
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was the real subject and the learner was an actor. In almost all case the teacher would shock the student to the assumed point of death and in one case a teacher laughed while administering the shock. This leads to the conclusion that everyone has an innate aggression that manifest with the opportunity arises. When the circumstances of the experiment were changed‚ and the teacher could choose the level of shock administered to the learner the results were drastically different. The teacher’s hardly
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due to their cultural upbringing which instilled a false idea of masculinity‚ hold the notion that a man doesn’t feel emotions such as fear. The stress involved in the suppression of these emotions to fulfill those societal standards leads to shell-shock. Pat Barker’s novel Regeneration puts these stereotypes under close and critical examination. Rupert Brooke wrote poetry which proved that society’s high standards of masculinity were attainable. Siegfried Sassoon’s poem “Repression of War Experience”
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conditioning in rats. The purpose of the experiment was to condition rats to suppress certain hunger behaviors such as water licking. Burdick and James paired the neutral stimulus of white light with shock in a “test chamber” to see if rats would develop an association between the two stimuli. Naturally‚ shock induces a fear-like freezing behavior‚ and after being conditioned the rats displayed the same behavior but only to the white light. Furthermore‚ they would then place the rats back in their “home”
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language barrier‚ that these students face‚ like major culture shock‚ homesickness‚ and financial difficulties. One of the most obvious difficulties for an international student is culture shock. Culture shock is the result of moving from an environment that is familiar to one that is not. Adjusting to new food‚ people‚ environment and currency is all a part of getting over culture shock. The first element that might contribute to culture shock is adjusting to the climate. A lot of the international
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