Economics (Week 1) Opportunity Cost My significant other and I recently made a decision for me to quit my job and go back to school. Our decision was based on my unhappiness at work; however‚ we also started looking at the long-term financial security aspect of it. The alternatives considered were to pursue a health related job where I would be happier or‚ go back to school to acquire a nursing degree. We came to our final decision based on my dream of wanting to be a nurse. The future long-term
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BIO 143 HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY REVIEW SHEET TEST 5: FALL 2012 Chapter 23: Ventilation - Be able to list & briefly describe the 4 primary pressures that are associated with ventilation: Atmospheric Pressure‚ Intra-alveolar Pressure‚ Pleural Pressure‚ Transpulmonary Pressure. - What ix external and internal respiration? - Be familiar with why ventilation occurs (b/c of pressure gradients between alveoli and outside atm.)‚ that air moves down a pressure gradient (high to low pressure) and why
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T3 and the last one in the thyroid gland is Calcitonin. Next is the parathyroid which only has one hormone which is the Parathyroid hormone (PTH). Adrenal cortex has 2 which is the Cortisol and Aldosterone. Adrenal medulla Norepinephrine and epinephrine. The pancreas has 2 also which are insulin and people who lack that insulin is have diabetes and that is why they have to take insulin because there body don’t make it themselves or don’t have enough of it. The other one is Glucagon. the testes
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Chapter 16 The Autonomic Nervous System Sympathetic (Thoraco-lumbar) division Parasympathetic (Cranial-sacral) division Somatic Motor vs Visceral Motor ■ ■ ■ ■ Somatic motor is directed from cortical levels to skeletal muscles and is voluntary. Visceral motor is directed from hypothalamus and midbrain and is involuntary‚ but has input from cortex and thalamus. Somatic lower motor neuron is in ventral horn of gray matter and neurotransmitter at skeletal muscle is Ach. Visceral motor comes from
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Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disorder in which antibodies produced by your immune system stimulate your thyroid to overproduce hormones. To attain a better idea of Graves’ disease‚ attention has to be given to how the thyroid works.The thyroid is a butterfly shaped gland under the laryngeal prominence or adam’s apple‚ that is responsible for secreting thyroid hormones thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) that increase the body’s metabolic rate. The thyroid is regulated by the hypothalamus
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A Review of Albuterol use in Infants with Respiratory Virus Kaitlyn Coulter Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of lower respiratory tract infections such as bronchiolitis and pneumonia in pediatric patients [1]. RSV bronchiolitis affects infants between the ages of 0–3 months with greater severity [2]. The viral process impairs normal pulmonary gas exchange leading to ventilation-perfusion mismatch and subsequent hypoxemia. The care of infants
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Psychosocial Factors: Stress and Health Management Goal of Every Industry…. Increased Productivity Factors….You wish you could Control I’m Stress Increased Productivity Other Factors Stress • “An individual’s adaptive response to changes in the environment that place demands on the individual.” – People adapt in many different ways • Functional • Dysfunctional – The stimuli that induce stress are called stressors – Stress may be physical or psychological
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ION OF CLASSIFICATION OF NON-CHORDATES UPTO CLASSES WITH SALIENT FEATURES Vanramliana Pachhunga University College Aizawl‚ Mizoram 1. Phylum Porifera: From the Latin porus for pore and Ferre to bear‚ hence an animal with with pores. ~5000 species. Characteristic features:- a) Multicellular; no true tissue; asymmetric; sessile b) spongin- protein fibers for structure; spicules for skeleton c) filter feeders using collar cells (choanocytes) & amoebocytes
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF PHARMACOGNOSY In 780 AD ‚ a Greek pharmaco-botanist Pedanios Dioscorides wrote and described about 600 plants with medicinal properties in his book “De materia medica libre cinque(concerning medical matter in five volumes). Galen was a Greek pharmacist-physician who lived in Rome and who describe the method of preparing formulas containing plant and animal drugs and the term ”galenical pharmacy” was originated. In 19th century material medica (medical
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Conduct Disorder Johnny‚ age 10‚ is admitted to the psychiatric unit for evaluation. Following is Johnny’s case history. Erin gave birth to Johnny. She is an unmarried 16-year-old girl who chose to keep Johnny with her and tried to raise him herself. In beginning she lived with her parents and continued her high school after Johnny’s birth. She was very irresponsible‚ had no source of income‚ contributed little to her needs‚ and used to smoke marijuana with her friends. Erin’s parents took Johnny’s
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