Kwashiorkor is a disease that is caused by malnutrition when there is not enough protein in the diet. Other names for Kwashiorkor are protein malnutrition‚ protein-calorie malnutrition‚ and malignant malnutrition (Kwashiorkor‚ 2011). Kwashiorkor is most common in areas where there is famine‚ limited food supply‚ and low levels of education. This disease can occur when people do not understand how to eat a proper diet. In very poor countries‚ this disease is more common. Often Kwashiorkor occurs during
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Crohn ’s disease is named after Burrill B. Crohn‚ the physician who described the disease in a paper written in 1972. Crohn ’s disease can also be referred to as Morbus Crohn ’s‚ Granulomatous Enteritis‚ Regional Enteritis‚ or Terminal Ileitis. Attacks of Crohn ’s disease may affect patients in their teens or early twenties‚ and tend to recur throughout the individual ’s life. The History of Crohn ’s Disease Crohn ’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease of an undetermined cause that afflicts
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Cardiovascular disease is a group of things at are all combined together and are affected by this terrible disease. The things that get affected that involve the human heart are arteries‚ veins‚ blood vessels‚ and capillaries. Heart disease causes many different kinds of problems that are related to the process known as atherosclerosis. The condition happens to a person when a good size amount of plaque has built up in their arteries. The results from this occurring narrows the room inside of our
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Parkinson disease is a gradually progressive degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. Parkinson disease belongs to a group of conditions called movement disorders. There are four characteristic problems caused by Parkinson disease‚ including tremor at rest‚ balance problems‚ stiffness‚ and slowness of movement. Parkinson disease occurs when areas of the brain‚ including an area called the substantia nigra‚ is slowly destroyed. The exact reason for this destruction is not completely known
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Research Methods Discussion Board 1 Research and describe 5 data collection techniques in your own words. Be sure to cite any sources you used in APA format. Answer the following questions: Why is the examination of collected data so important? How are statistics used in the field of criminal justice? There are so many ways to collect data that do not involve the common ways in a direct manner. We as individual people collect and store our memories in a few ways‚ and that is all data as well
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Communicable Disease HCS 457 Communicable Disease Chickenpox is one of the many highly communicable diseases. This communicable disease is cause by a virus called varicella-zoster which has a resemblance with the herpes virus. It can be transmitted through close contact with the fluids from the blisters or through air wherein the virus is disseminated by coughing or sneezing. Chickenpox is regarded as highly communicable for individuals who are exposed to the disease for the first time
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What is a thesis? Your thesis is not your dissertation. Neither is it a one liner about what you are doing. Your thesis is "a position or proposition that a person (as a candidate for scholastic honors) advances and offers to maintain by argument." [Webster’s 7th New Collegiate Dictionary]. "I looked at how people play chess" is not a thesis; " people adapt memories of old games to play new games" is. Similarly‚ "I wrote a program to play chess" is not a thesis; "playing chess requires a database
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about Huntington’s disease. After reading this paper and the subsequent ones to come‚ you surely will. According to PudMedHealth.com‚ “Huntington’s disease is a disorder passed down through families in which nerve cells in certain parts of the brain waste away or degenerate.” This can lead to many different complications to a person’s health. In most cases‚ the disease’s symptoms develop later in life during a person’s mid thirties-forties. There are also instances where the disease becomes on-set in
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FOUR STYLES OF ROMAN WALL PAINTING The wall paintings evolved from around 2nd BC. Romans created these extravaganza works to emphasise their wealth. The evidence for the techniques used is described by Vitruvius ’ in _De Architectura._ He noted that wall paintings were interior wall designs as frescoes‚ which were executed using damp plaster (lime and sand mixed together). There must have been at least several layers of this plaster‚ where the top layers were burnished with marble powder to make
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deadly diseases infecting an unsuspecting population that had no immunity to such diseases. The Europeans were said to be thoroughly diseased by the time Columbus set sail on his first voyage (Cowley‚ 1991). Through the domestication of such animals as pigs‚ horses‚ sheep‚ and cattle‚ the Europeans exposed themselves to a vast array of pathogens which continued to be spread through wars‚ explorations‚ and city-building. Thus any European who crossed the Atlantic was immune to such diseases as measles
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