chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases. Included in that group is a disease called emphysema. “Respiratory Disorders” Emphysema is an irreversible‚ progressive disease that gradually damages the air sacs in the lungs causing shortness of breath. In people with emphysema‚ the inner walls of the air sacs weaken and eventually break‚ which creates one large air space instead of many small ones. Think of an old sponge with large holes and very little elasticity. This reduces its ability to hold as much
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breathing difficult. Emphysema and chronic bronchitis are the two most common conditions that make up COPD. Chronic bronchitis is an inflammation of the lining of your bronchial tubes‚ which carry air to and from your lungs. Emphysema occurs when the air sacs at the end of the smallest air passages in the lungs are gradually destroyed. Damage to your lungs from COPD can’t be reversed‚ but treatment can help control symptoms and minimize further damage. Symptoms of COPD often don’t appear until significant
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Stanford‚ Jonathan joined LinkedIn in 2006 as an analytics scientist. His responsibilities were developing core data sets from company’s user data‚ building computational back-end engine for data mining and analysis with distributed data warehouse (Goldman‚ 2014). His works were used for LinkedIn’s website and its search engine optimization to improve user experience. His famous work were LinkedIn ’s feature “People You May Know”‚ which allows users to connect with people who may have same networks
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The Effects of Smoking on the Body The custom of smoking tobacco originated with the Indians possibly as early as one hundred A.D. Tobacco was used at first principally in connection with religious rituals‚ but by the end of the fifteenth century‚ smoking was quickly becoming a common personal practice. There are at least four thousand different toxic chemicals which have been identified as products of tobacco smoke. Nicotine is among these and has become one of the most widely used stimulants
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enclosed in a double walled sac called the Pericardium. The pericardium has outer and inner coats. The outer coat is tough and thickened‚ loosely cloaks the heart‚ and is attached to the central part of the diaphragm and the back of the sternum (breastbone). The inner coat is double with one layer closely adherent to the heart while the other lines the inner surface of the outer coat with the intervening space being filled with fluid. There is a superficial part of the sac and is called the Fibrous
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from several primary sources. These sources include Tecumseh’s Appeal to the Osages‚ where Tecumseh tries to unite dozens of Indian tribes against the United States expansion efforts‚ Black Hawk’s Encroachment by White Settlers‚ where Black Hawk‚ a Sac Indian war chief‚ conveys his life story to try and justify his actions in the Black Hawk war against the American settlers‚ and an Encounter between Omaha Hunters and White Squatters in Iowa‚ where a hostile encounter between Omaha Hunters and White
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A pelican’s pouch can be best described as a thin‚ wrinkled plastic bag that is attached to the bird’s mouth. The sac is made of a film-like material that can stretch out to an incredible capacity‚ much more than the stomach can hold. One of the most defining and perhaps important features of the brown pelican is its pouch‚ which effectively acts as a net. As an experienced
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appearance of the inner lining of the stomach Wavy long rides with circular endings List the organs found in the thoracic cavity Larynx‚ trachea‚ heart‚ left lung‚ esophagus‚ left kidney‚ aorta‚ bladder‚ umbilical cord‚ urogenital opening‚ penis‚ scrotal sac‚ rectum‚ ureter‚ right kidney‚ inferior vena cava‚ umbilical vein‚ hepatic veins‚ right lung‚ thyroid gland Blood is pumped from the left atrium to the left ventricle and out the aorta Ventricle - thicker Atrium - thiner Place your index finger on
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Synopsis The Galleon Group was a privately owned hedge fund firm that provided services and information about investments. The group was founded in 1997‚ and attracted employee’s from Goldman Sach’s and Needham & Co. The company made its profit and other companies by choosing stocks carefully. Raj rajaratnam was an analyst for Needham for 11 years before leaving to start Galleon Group‚ he took several employee’s from his previous
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vertical integration pricing strategy in which they take ownership of the participants at channel levels that differ and they also engage in multifarious channel level operations both in a bid to control costs and thus influence pricing function (Goldman S‚ 2000‚ pp154). The company is able to determine the item’s price points‚ which tend to be much higher than perfectly competitive industries by virtue of their branding efforts. Which helps the Company in creating revenue and setting the tempo against
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