What is secondhand smoke? Secondhand smoke (SHS) is also known as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). SHS is a mixture of 2 forms of smoke that come from burning tobacco: * Sidestream smoke – smoke from the lighted end of a cigarette‚ pipe‚ or cigar * Mainstream smoke – the smoke exhaled by a smoker Even though we think of these as the same‚ they aren’t. Sidestream smoke has higher concentrations of cancer-causing agents (carcinogens) than mainstream smoke. And‚ it has smaller particles
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Project Fall 2013 - 2014 The issue was between Louisa Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. Back at 1892 ‚ There was a big influenza in United Kingdom caused over 1 million people get killed . Carbolic Smoke Ball Company made a cure which was a steam ball that u inhale 3 times in a day after two weeks time you can not get any influenza . Company made an advertisenment via newspaper named Pall Mall Gazette which was including all those details
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EE2 Signals and Linear Systems Pier Luigi Dragotti Electrical & Electronic Engineering Department Imperial College London URL: http://www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/~pld/Teaching/ E-mail: p.dragotti@imperial.ac.uk PLD Autumn 2012 Thursday‚ 27 September 12 Signals and Linear Systems Lecture 1 Aims and Objectives “The concepts of signals and systems arise in a variety of fields and the techniques associated with these notions play a central role in many areas of science and technology
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Signals Traveling in Neurons Two opposing ideas about the nervous system * Reticular theory ( the nervous system consisted of a large network of fused nerve cells) * Neuron theory ( the nervous system consisted of distinct elements or cells * Discovery of staining led to the acceptance of neuron theory. Staining is a chemical technique that caused nerve cells to become colored so they stood out from surrounding tissue * A way of electricity is transmitted in groups of neurons‚ such
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Digital signal processing Digital signal processing Digital signal processing (DSP) is the mathematical manipulation of an information signal to modify or improve it in some way. It is characterized by the representation of discrete time‚ discrete frequency‚ or other discrete domain signals by a sequence of numbers or symbols and the processing of these signals. The goal of DSP is usually to measure‚ filter and/or compress continuous real-world analog signals. The first step is usually to
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how often secondhand smoke accounts for tobacco related deaths. II. Thesis: Smoking on campus has many reasons that it should not be allowed. a. By not allowing it freely it reduces the risk of students being exposed to second hand smoke as frequently. b. Eliminates the presence of peer pressure to try and fit in III. Preview of Main Points: 1. Effects of Secondhand Smoke. 2. Relevance of Peer Pressure. 3. College Campuses are already going smoke free. IV. Transition:
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Genetic Counselor Decision-Making Two parents‚ Jenny and Bob Miller‚ are both well educated and rich. They have two children‚ James and Andrew‚ who are both stricken with muscular dystrophy. The prognosis is that their muscular systems will gradually deteriorate‚ resulting in an early death. Yet the advances of medicine hold out the promise of a possible cure in the foreseeable future with gene therapy. Closer to hand is the possibility that embryonic muscle cells from normal individuals might
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the Elizabethan Age. One of the best-known sonneteers is William Shakespeare. He wrote 154 sonnets‚ which were published as “SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS” in 1609. Out of the 154‚ “Sonnet 130” is the most famous about love. In this poem‚ the poet shows that true love goes beyond physical beauty. Shakespearean sonnet is written in three quatrains and a couplet. The quatrains lay down the conflicts and a couplet offers the resolutions. “Sonnet 130” compares the poet ’s mistress to images normally associated
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Why people smoke Tobacco is a silence kill. Smoking is a major contributing factor in lung cancer. Smokers with high-level NNAL is twice more likely to have lung cancer than nonsmokers. And the health risks of tobacco smoking are well known with regard to diseases of the heart‚ lungs‚ and blood vessels. The average life expectancy of smokers is fewer 4.6 years than non-smokers. Smoking has so much harm. But why we meet smokers everywhere. It is reported that China currently has about 3.5 million
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Part-time Jobs for Students: A Good Idea I‚ being employed with a part-time job‚ truly do believe that there is no wrong in having a part-time job while being a student. I honestly think that it is an awesome‚ great idea for students to have part-time jobs before they graduate from high school -- if they have the time and resources to do so. Students who are responsible‚ or learn responsibility‚ have nothing to loose but all to gain by having a job. There are a few key points that prove students
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