White-nose syndrome haunts bats The mysterious disease is obliterating bat colonies as it spreads across North America‚ and scientists say time is running out to save them. 7 Related Topics: Conservation‚ Endangered Species‚ Viruses & Diseases‚ Wild Animals Bats are flying ambassadors of Halloween‚ adding spooky ambience to countless forests‚ caves‚ graveyards and haunted houses. Lately‚ however‚ the tables have turned on them — Halloween and the winter it foreshadows are now an increasingly
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Infant Industry Protection: Economic Anchor or Springboard? MGMT 6390 International Operations Summer 2007 Francis X Moran Abstract Countries with Infant Industries protectionist policies tend to suffer lower growth and less integration into the world economy than countries that compete without a lot of protectionism. The use of protectionist policies to fix a market problem is at best highly inefficient at worst economically disastrous. This economic isolationism is very difficult to
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Reflexive sounds in infants are the first sounds infants produce and include sounds of discomfort and distress like crying and fussing. They also include vegetative sounds such as burping‚ sneezing‚ and coughing. Infant directed speech is the speech that adults use when communicating with babies and is used with a high pitch tone. Infant directed speech includes several distinctive paralinguistic‚ syntactic‚ and discourse characteristics which includes; slower tempos‚ shorter mean length of utterances
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general adaptation theory (GAS). [pic] The General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) In order to develop a general theory for the physiological response of humans and animals to stress‚ Hans Selye‚ former director of Experimental Medicine and Surgery at the University of Montreal‚ performed an integrated analysis of the effects of stress on adrenal gland function. He called his model of stress adaptation the General Adaptation Syndrome or GAS. The GAS was thought by Selye to outline how the organism
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ACUTE INFANT TORTICOLLIS Estee Abrams MA-E One of the rarest acute conditions in infants is Acute Infant Torticollis . The Latin phrase Torticollis meaning “twisted neck”‚ uniquely presenting in newborn up to four to six months of age. Comparatively‚ acute infant torticollis does not favor boys over girls‚ effecting them equally‚ with less than 100 new cases presenting each year in the U.S. Although this condition may look painful to the child‚ they usually do not feel pain. With early intervention
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Hypertention Hypertension is a common disorder characterized by a sustained elevation of systolic arterial pressure of 120 mm Hg or higher‚ or a diastolic arterial pressure of 80 mm Hg or greater or higher‚ or both. Hypertension is divided into two categories: essential hypertension and secondary hypertension.
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Piaget’s Theory of Infant Development Author: Elizabeth Purling Renton Technical College Developmental Psychology Instructor: Leta Berkshire May 30‚ 2007 Piaget’s Theory of Infant Development At almost 32 weeks gestation‚ my little one constantly brings about questions and ideas about what my life will be like when I become a parent. What will she look like? Will she be a loud baby or a quiet one? How long before she sleeps through the night? What cognitive abilities does
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Lesch Nyhan Syndrome Lesch Nyhan Syndrome (LNS) was first reported in 1964 by Michael Lesch and William L. Nyhan. It is a rare disorder located on the x chromosome. It is a sex-linked trait‚ which means that it is passed from mother to son. This condition can be inherited or occur spontaneously as a result of a genetic mutation. It usually appears once in every 100‚000 male births. Since the defective gene is recessive‚ females almost never exhibit symptoms of the disease. However‚ they can be
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Culture-Bound Syndromes By: Central Arkansas University Table of Contents Abstract Pg. 3 Introduction Pg. 4 - 8 Methodology Pg. 8 - 10 Analysis & Discussion Pg. 10 - 11 Conclusion & Recommendations Pg. 11- 13 Bibliography Pg. 14 Abstract Mental Health as described by LaVeist and Thomas (2005) is “a state of successful performance of mental function‚ resulting in productive activities‚ fulfilling relationships with
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information. A click away and I was on my way into Ms. Frizzle of the Magic School Bus’s classroom‚ just waiting to be educated. (Of course‚ there are no Magic School Bus books written about Fragile X‚ my newfound rare genetic disease friend.) Fragile X syndrome affects one in four thousand males‚ and one in every eight thousand females around the globe. Its features include learning disability of varying severity‚ and behavioral problems such as hyperactivity and autistic tendencies. Fragile X’s physical
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