Importance of water use in the steel industry Water’s ever-growing importance in the industrial manufacturing arena has been demonstrated by an increasing concern regarding the sufficiency of both its quantity and quality for use in industrial applications. In general‚ water is used in steelmaking as a: coolant for equipment‚ furnaces‚ and intermediate steel shapes; cleansing agent to remove scale from steel products; source of steam; medium for lubricating oils and cleaning solutions;
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Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) or Stein-Leventhal syndrome‚ is an endocrine disorder in women that has varying degrees of early and long-term reproductive and metabolic risk. PCOS is the most common female endocrinopathy during childbearing age with around 6%-10% of the population afflicted. (Palomba et al.‚ 2015). While many that have been diagnosed with PCOS have ovarian cyst‚ it is not the symptom required for diagnoses. To be diagnosed with PCOS one must be afflicted with at least two of three
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s Rett’s Syndrome Website: http://understandingrettsyndrome.webs.com History Rett Syndrome is a developmental disorder experienced almost always in girls‚ and is first recognized during infancy. Before the discovery of this disorder‚ incidents of Rett Syndrome were mistaken for many other neurologic disorders such as Autism‚ Cerebral Palsy‚ or Nonspecific Developmental Delay‚ especially in females. An Austrian physician‚ Dr. Andreas Rett‚ first described this
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Reye Syndrome Reye Syndrome is an extremely rare‚ non-contagious disease thought to be triggered by aspirin use. The actual origin of the disease is unknown. Reye’s Syndrome‚ occasionally called Reye-Jacobsen’s Syndrome‚ is known to follow any viral infection. Two of the most common viral infections it precedes is influenza‚ "the flu"‚ and chicken pox. A now-familiar warning on bottles of aspirin‚ most notably Tylenol‚ is not to give Tylenol to a child who is recovering from the chicken
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Down Syndrome Down syndrome is a genetic condition that typically causes some level of learning disability and a characteristic range of physical features. Most babies born with Down’s syndrome are diagnosed with the condition after birth and are likely to have: reduced muscle tone leading to floppine eyes that slant upwards and outwards a below average weight and length at birth Although children with Down’s syndrome share some common physical characteristics‚ they do not all look the same
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Marfan Syndrome Have you ever wondered about the diseases that you can get from your parents? One of these major diseases that can change someone’s life is called the Marfan Syndrome. Marfan Syndrome is a disorder of connective tissue that is inherited from the parents. The bones and circulatory system are usually the parts of the body that are longer and the ones that are changed because of the disease. There are many things that can cause a disease. Marfan syndrome is caused by a mutation
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Down Syndrome What is Down Syndrome? Where does it come from? Is there a cure? About one in every 800 American babies is born with Down syndrome‚ and it is estimated that about 350‚000 people in the United States‚ and just under 6 million people worldwide live with this condition today. There is a false impression that pregnancy screening has eliminated or substantially reduced the incidence of Down syndrome in the population. Despite years of screening‚ the Down syndrome population in the
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Turner Syndrome Turner syndrome affects 3% of all females prior to birth‚ with only around 1% of these ‘in utero’ cases surviving to term; it is not inherited from either parent‚ but purely a ‘chance’ mutation. Despite this‚ it has become the most common genetically determined abnormality amongst females‚ and can have detrimental effects on systemic wellbeing throughout life. Turner Syndrome is a sex-linked genetic disorder which only affects females‚ and can present symptoms in several organ
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Victoria Haskins Biology Honors Mr. Kelly March 6th‚ 2017 Edwards Syndrome Edwards syndrome‚ also known as Trisomy 18‚ is a condition caused by a mistake in meiotic cell division resulting in an extra chromosome 18 in a developing baby (Source 1). This condition disrupts normal development‚ potentially fatally‚ even before birth (Source 1). Major characteristics of the disorder include a delay in growth‚ a low birth weight‚ and other major medical complications (Source 1‚ Source 3). Professor of
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Korsakoff’s Syndrome Korsakoff’s syndrome is a disorder in which a lack of thiamine results in anterograde and retrograde amnesia — those with the disorder exhibit the loss of newly formed memories‚ and a degeneration in their ability to remember events from their past (Spiegel‚ Lim‚ 2011‚ p. 15). Found generally in alcoholics‚ the combination of their compromised metabolism and thiamine deficiency results in Wernicke’s Encephalopathy‚ which then progresses to Korsakoff’s syndrome (Thompson‚ Guerrini
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