Nike was formed by $1000 and the handshake of 2 men. Those 2 men were Bill Bowerman‚ the University of Oregon track coach and Phil Knight‚ a University of Oregon accounting student and a middle-distance runner under Coach Bowerman. Bill brought jogging to America‚ and then built an unrivaled track and field program at that university. Bowerman taught his athletes to seek the competitive advantage everywhere - in their bodies‚ their gear and their passion. In 1962 Knight had this you’re-crazy-it-will-never-work-
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Creative Title: Tay-Sachs‚ the saddest of diseases Introduction: Tay-Sachs disease (TSD) is a genetic condition affecting male and female infants. The life expectancy of children with TSD is just 3-4 years old. Unfortunately‚ it is always fatal and there no known cure. What is the cause of the disease and how is it inherited? Tay-Sachs disease is hereditary‚ meaning it is inherited from family members. TSD is the result of an autosomal recessive gene‚ meaning‚ meaning that two copies of an abnormal
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Contemporary Nursing Issues Taskstream 724.2.5-03-04‚ 07-08‚ 2.6-01-09 Tay - Sachs disease Cherilyn Mitchell Western Governors University In reading this case study and other articles online‚ I find this a heartbreaking disease and am thankful that I have had the healthy children that I have. There are several key interdisciplinary members that I would place on the team for this family. I would utilize an obstetrician‚ geneticist‚ social worker and clergyman or priest. I feel there are many
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Tay-Sachs Disease Tay-Sachs disease is a rare inherited autosomal recessive disorder first discovered in 1881. It is a disease that is found in many populations‚ but commonly affects the populations of the Ashkenazi Jews. The disorder is caused when there is an absence of enzyme called beta hexosaminase A that is found on chromosome 15. The most common mutation occurs in mostly 80 percent of Tay-Sachs patients is the four base pair addition (TATC) on exon 11 and a G to C inversion
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A rare and fatal disease‚ Tay-Sachs is characterized as one of the devastating neurodegenerative disease. Children afflicted with Tay-Sachs “lose motor skills and mental functions” eventually becoming “blind‚ deaf‚ mentally retarded‚ paralyzed...Tay-Sachs children usually die by age five” (“Tay-Sachs Disease”). A diagnosis of infantile Tay-Sachs is akin to a death sentence; the only form of care would be comfort for death. Tay-Sachs is passed on genetically from parent to child and‚ as it is an autosomal
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Emma Goldman and Anarchism The late 1800’s and early 1900’s in the United States was a time of seemingly never ending change and reform. As some may put it‚ America was feeling growing pains. The Civil War had ended and civil rights for African-Americans had become a highly controversial issue. Another issue in the nation included the status of immigrants and deportation. This issue hovered over the heads of a number of foreign communities‚ but none more so than the Chinese. With the ever expanding
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maximise potential.’ Michael S. Sherwood Vice Chairman‚ Goldman Sachs Group Co-Chief Executive Officer Goldman Sachs International 77% of participants are creating net new jobs 66% of participants are growing revenues However‚ many small businesses and social enterprises struggle to access the support needed to overcome the many challenges they face as they take their businesses to the next level. After extensive research‚ Goldman Sachs launched the 10‚000 Small Businesses programme in the
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The Matrix The matrix will forever hold a place as one of my favorite childhood movies as the action and computer generated imagery back in 99’…were ahead of its time. Today‚ I’m twenty years old‚ in college and assigned to re-watch this bad-ass movie and utilize my mature adult intelligence to “critically” think about the socially constructed reality at a college level. Therefore‚ I shall proceed to say that after watching the Matrix‚ the movie pertains to the socially constructed reality as a
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In mathematics‚ a matrix (plural matrices) is a rectangular array of numbers‚ symbols‚ or expressions‚ arranged in rows and columns.[1][2] The individual items in a matrix are called its elements or entries. An example of a matrix with 2 rows and 3 columns is Matrices of the same size can be added or subtracted element by element. But the rule for matrix multiplication is that two matrices can be multiplied only when the number of columns in the first equals the number of rows in the second. A
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