NIH Public Access Author Manuscript Contraception. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2014 October 01. NIH-PA Author Manuscript Published in final edited form as: Contraception. 2013 October ; 88(4): 503–508. doi:10.1016/j.contraception.2013.03.004. Weight Change at 12 Months in Users of Three Progestin-Only Contraceptive Methods Zevidah Vickery‚ MD‚ MSCI*‚ Tessa Madden‚ MD‚ MPH†‚§‚ Qiuhong Zhao‚ MS†‚ Gina Secura‚ MPH‚ PhD†‚ Jenifer E. Allsworth‚ PhD†‚ and Jeffrey F. Peipert‚ MD‚ PhD† *Riverbend
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William Deresiewicz is an American author‚ essayist‚ and literary critic‚ and in “Faux Friendship” (The Chronicle of Higher Education‚ 2009)‚ Deresiewciz argues against social media because he believes that it is negatively changing our perception of what friendship really means. First‚ Deresiewicz describes to the audience what the concept of friendship not only was‚ but how it developed over time. Throughout ancient times friendship was considered precious and far superior to marriage‚ but because
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Family by Pa Chin Essay In Pa Chin’s novel‚ Family; it revolves around the Gao family and the many obstacles that the three sons have to go through to obtain their freedom. Since the setting for this novel was based in the early 1920’s‚ there are many conflicts and struggles that the book expresses and there are many situations where now a days it is understandable but during that time period it was really hard for many of China’s youth to be able to endure and accept the facts. The social conflicts
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The reasons why I want to be a PA is that it is a profession that offers so much flexibility‚ diversity‚ and an expansive set of knowledge and skills for an individual that wants to practice medicine without having to go to medical school. As a PA‚ I would have an extensive choice of specialties I can practice in with the flexibility of working two different specialties simultaneously or switching from one specialty to another without requiring any extra schooling. I grew up with the mindset to learn
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Competitiveness‚ Strategy‚ and Productivity: Better quality‚ higher productivity‚ lower costs‚ and the ability to respond quickly to customer needs are more important than ever and the bar is getting higher. Competitiveness: How effectively an organization meets the wants and needs of customers relative to others that offer similar goods or services Organizations compete through some combination of their marketing and operations functions what do customers want? How these customers’ needs best be
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In 1606‚ William Shakespeare wrote and presented a dark‚ psychologically charged story about the evil nature of a man at odds with his conscience in the play Macbeth. Four hundred years later the movie "Scotland‚ PA" takes the play someplace it has never been: 1970’s white-trash America --- not always accurate‚ but clearly connected. Although worlds apart‚ this dysfunctional fast-food fantasy mirrors Shakespeare’s story of royal deception and assassination by capturing elements of character and plot
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Neuroscientist. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2012 April 26. NIH-PA Author Manuscript Published in final edited form as: Neuroscientist. 2011 June ; 17(3): 274–287. doi:10.1177/1073858410383336. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and Abnormal Neuronal Plasticity Alexandre E. Medina1 1Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology‚ Virginia Commonwealth University‚ School of Medicine‚ Richmond‚ VA‚ USA Abstract NIH-PA Author Manuscript The ingestion of alcohol during pregnancy can result
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All through time‚ successive generations have rebelled against the values and traditions of their elders. In all countries‚ including China‚ new generations have sought to find a different path than that of their past leaders. Traditional values become outdated and are replaced with what the younger society deems as significant. Family concentrates on this very subject. In the novel‚ three brothers struggle against the outdated Confucian values of their elders. Alike in their dislike of the
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has a fatal flaw that‚ combined with fate and external forces‚ brings on a tragedy" (www.dictionary.com). And until recently we were satisfied with that At the Cannes Film Festival in 2001‚ a low budget comedy was unveiled. It was called Scotland‚ PA. This film was written by a first-time director‚ Billy Morrissette‚ and depicts the familiar story in a surprisingly different form. The premise of the plot is held in tact but the setting is shifted several hundred years‚ to the 1970s. The characters
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and maintain an affluential reputation. This central theme is apparent in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth‚ which is further translated into Billy Morrissett’s Scotland‚ PA. Although Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s desire to “achieve absolute monarchical authority is absurdly reduced to the McBeths’ desperate bourgeois ambitions‚” in Scotland‚ PA‚ the main concept remains intact (Hoefer 154). Essentially‚ Macbeth is transformed from a tragic play about the uncontrollable desperation for monarchial power kindled
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