Sense of Touch/Feeling The Skin Senses Consider the skin has remarkable versatility: It protects us against surface injury‚ holds in body fluids‚ and helps regulate body temperature. The skin also contains nerve endings that‚ when stimulated‚ produce sensations of touch‚ pain‚ warmth and cold. Like several other senses‚ these skin senses are connected to the somatosensory cortex located in the brain’s parietal lobes. The Somatosensory Cortex The skin’s sensitivity
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A review of the use and clinical effectiveness of touch as a nursing intervention Madeline Gleesona‚ Fiona Timminsb‚ ‚ a St. Patricks Hospital‚ Dublin b Trinity College‚ Dublin Available online 13 March 2005 summary The objective of this literature review is to explore the use and effectiveness of touch as a distinct aspect of nurse patient communication. Nurses’ use of touch‚ the impact of touch and the experiences of touch are explored. Touching is a regarded as a special type of non-verbal
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Physical Education – Year 12 Touch exam. Notes and Prepared Bibliography. Students may bring this sheet into the exam once approved by the teacher. It is to contain the following. • Notes to help construct answer – No more than 100 words‚ • Suitable quotes‚ no more than 5‚ must be 2 lines or less. • A prepared Bibliography • All must be typed in 12 point Arial font. APPROVED BY TEACHER Y / N Signed: The structural level of the framework examines inequities
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otherwise move with the ball in an attempt to gain territorial advantage and score. Defending players prevent the attacking team from gaining a territorial advantage by touching the ball carrier. Either defending or attacking players may initiate the touch. 3 Start of the game: The team that wins the coin toss chooses the direction of play and must start with a ‘tap’ from the middle of the field. The defending
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used to. Accordingly‚ he was spotted by a few peasants who brought him to the king named Midas‚ who affectionately took him in for ten days and cared for him. Later the leader of the land (Antonomasia) returned the old man to Bacchus‚ his foster-son‚ who in return told Midas that whatever he wished for he would give to him. Midas wished that all he touched be made into gold. Bacchus detested but finally gave in. Midas left with joy wanting to try his new power. When he touched a twig it turned into
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History of multi-touch[edit] The use of touchscreen technology to control electronic devices pre-dates multi-touch technology and the personal computer. Early synthesizer and electronic instrument builders like Hugh Le Caine and Robert Moog experimented with using touch-sensitive capacitance sensors to control the sounds made by their instruments.[6] IBM began building the first touch screens in the late 1960s‚ and‚ in 1972‚ Control Data released the PLATO IV computer‚ a terminal used for educational
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Touch is the oldest and the most primitive sense that we have. It is the first sense we experience in the womb and the last one we lose before death. The organ that is most associated with the sense of touch is the skin. The uppermost part of the skin is called epidermis‚ which is as thick as a piece of paper‚ and it protects the inner part. Below the epidermis‚ there is dermis. Dermis is where the sense of touch is originated from. It is filled with many tiny nerve endings‚ which gives the person
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sensory receptors of the skin are concerned with at least five different senses: pain‚ heat‚ cold‚ touch‚ and pressure. The five are usually grouped together as the single sense of touch in the classification of the five senses of the whole human body. The sensory receptors vary greatly in terms of structure. For example‚ while pain receptors are simply unmyelinated terminal branches of neurons‚ touch receptors form neuronal fiber nets around the base of hairs and deep pressure receptors consist
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The Power of Touch Every human has eight distinct emotions -- anger‚ fear‚ disgust‚ love‚ gratitude‚ sympathy‚ happiness‚ and sadness. All these emotions are displayed and given if various ways. Most often they are verbally communicated from person to person. This article talks about how these emotions are communicated non-verbally through touch. The article starts out with a story from a subway train. It talks about a child being comforted by his mother through a simple squeeze of the hand and
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MGSC1206 Fall 2013 Due: Nov 1st‚ 2013 12:00 noon Assignment #2 Notes: (a) Assignments are to be done individually. (b) Be sure to use correct notation and show how you find each answer. (c) Assignments are to be remitted to the correct drop box on the second floor of Loyola. (d) No late assignments will be accepted. (e) Before beginning this assignment‚ you should have completed the following: • Reviewed the class examples • Completed the Algebra tutorial and related material‚ as
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