PICO Paper: Point of Care Testing in the Emergency Department America’s emergency departments (ED’s) are experiencing a crisis related to overcrowding and long wait times. Thus forcing these departments to function beyond their intended capacity and posing a threat to patient care safety and efficiency. One method of increasing patient flow and improving speed of diagnosis is the introduction of point-of-care technology (POCT). The first documented utilization of POCT is found in an Egyptian papyrus
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Pico Iyer “Nowhere Man” “Nowhere Man” by Pico Iyer talks about how being a transit lounger has it’s ups and downs. Packing and waiting for your next plane as soon as you’re about ready to just sit down and rest. From sleeping in airports to eating almost all of your meals off of plastic plates. I could relate to Iyer to some level but fully. Being a visitor in your home is never a good feeling to experience but seeing the world through your eyes is such a blessing as well. I thought that
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By contrasting the gift of the Magi to the Sesame Street version‚ its clear that in the Gift of the Magi the two partner Della and Jim‚ sell a valuable possession in order to make their partner happy during Christmas night. As where Bert and Ernie trade their prized possessions at Mr. Hooper store. While Bert and Ernie got their items back at the end of the video‚ Della couldn’t get her hair back‚ and Jim couldn’t get his watch back. The most obvious difference between the gift of the Magi and
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carefully been removed. In 1313 Arrigo died‚ and with him any residual hope for Dante to see Florence again. He returned to Verona‚ where Cangrande Della Scala allowed him to live in a certain security and‚ presumably‚ in a fair amount of prosperity. Cangrande was admitted to Dante’s Paradise (Paradiso XVII‚ 76). In 1315‚ Florence was forced by Uguccione della Faggiuola (the military officer controlling the town) to grant an amnesty to people in exile. Dante too was in the list of citizens to be pardoned
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and harped on its achievements. Mr. P.N. Haksar‚ the then Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission‚ addressing the annual session of the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry termed Mr. Tata’s speech as a ’funeral oration’ and said that this oration would be justified if mixed economy was really dead. He said that the problems of the country could not be solved by "composing lyrical passages on the death of mixed economy‚ raising ’macabre’ vision of the hold of communists". He further
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Throughout Cicero’s first oration against Cataline‚ he spends quite some time talking very negatively towards Cataline. He speaks directly to him and explains in front of the entire court his malice personality. Thus‚ Cicero’s strategy for getting Cataline to incriminate himself is to list his flaws and evil plans to maybe destroy the world. For example‚ he states‚ “notat et designat oculis ad caedem unum quemque nostrum” (Henderson). Translating this reveals that Cataline is picking out the
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Both “The Necklace” and “The Gift of the Magi” have plots that depend in large measure on the use of situational irony to create a surprise ending. “The Necklace” tells the story of Madame Mathilde Loise‚ a lowly clerk’s wife‚ who‚ in an effort to appear more debonaire than she is‚ borrows expensive jewels from Madame Jeanne Forestier‚ a wealthy friend. After the inevitable loss of the jewels‚ Madame Loisel and her husband secretly replace the jewels. Years later‚ Madame Loise‚ now impoverished
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A microprocessor incorporates the functions of a computer’s central processing unit (CPU) on a single integrated circuit (IC)‚ or at most a few integrated circuits. It is a multipurpose‚ programmable device that accepts digital data as input‚ processes it according to instructions stored in its memory‚ and provides results as output. It is an example of sequential digital logic‚ as it has internal memory. Microprocessors operate on numbers and symbols represented in the binary numeral system. The
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son of an Athenian father from become a full citizen. Pericles aim was to restrain the power of aristocrats where all supreme power is in the hands of one person. In Pericles oration he desribes Athens as “an education to greece” and that the city strives for freedom of the citizen. I believe that Pericles main aim of the oration was to explain to people that Athens was a society worth dying for and wanted Athenians to have pride about their identitiy. Pericles entered 470BC and 8 years later‚ esatblished
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idiotes polis agon paideia demagogue philosopher king/queen theory of the Forms the Good divided line allegory of the cave myth of Er cycle of decline 5 types of constitutions Socratic ignorance examined life soul/psyche funeral oration Peloponnesian War Mytilenian debate Melian dialogue heroic virtues Greek Terms: politeia techne arête eros Concepts: myth of Gyges city in speech 3 classes of the city 3 parts of the soul guardians censorship true lie noble lie/myth
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