States of America‚ stroke is the third leading cause of death and it kills almost 140‚000 people each year‚ more particularly on average one American dies from stroke every 4 minutes. Every year 795‚000 people in the United States have a stroke. In this‚ 610‚000 are first and new and 185‚000 are recurrent strokes. Nearly 75% of all strokes occur in people above the age of 65. The risk of having a stroke increases after the age of 55 but it can occur at any age. Stroke mortality rates are higher for African-Americans
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At The Radius we can appreciate when things look bleak and not very encouraging. There are certain topics that cause a gridlock in communication‚ and are so egregious they seem daunting to even reconcile. Such topics include slavery‚ the state of education‚ and the worldwide crisis with refugees. In June a series of events gave us the opportunity to bring these undesirable topics to the forefront and to fulfill our mission to be solution-oriented‚ and to think creatively. Ancestor Appreciation
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1.6 VESSELS: ARTERIES‚ VEINS & LYMPHATICS CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM Structure • heart‚ arteries‚ arterioles‚ capillaries‚ venules‚ veins Functions • transportation (oxygen‚ carbon dioxide‚ nutrients‚ wastes‚ wastes hormones) • regulation (pH‚ body temperature‚ temperature fluid & electrolytes) Principle arteries and veins CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM • Heart: pumps blood • Artery: vessel leaving the heart (Arteries take blood AWAY from your heart) • Vein: vessel going to the heart • Capillaries:
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today. When she began to play‚ everything was going fine until she ran for the ball and ended up slipping on her shoes‚ and fell on her outstretched hand. She used her arm to support her from hitting the floor and she ended up fracturing her wrist. She immediately felt pain‚ had swelling‚ and her wrist looked deformed. She immediately went to the emergency room and the doctor took an x-ray. The doctor identified which bone she had fractured‚ and it was her radius bone. The doctor said there would be
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VPN and RADIUS The boom in telecommuting and the need to support more remote workers is making life tough for IT managers. Besides the normal tasks of maintaining remote-access server (RAS) equipment‚ managers often find their time consumed administering access rights and authentication privileges on several‚ geographically dispersed remote access servers at the same time. Enter the Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)‚ a commonly used authentication system. Most remote-access
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Ionic Radius: Definition‚ Calculation‚ and Trends Atoms are microscopic particles that constitute all matter. Despite their tiny size‚ however‚ they can be measured. One way that certain atoms‚ called ions‚ are measured‚ is by ionic radius. The radius is different from an atomic radius and is influenced by the particles’ charges. Use the following information to understand this important measurement in chemistry. What is Ionic Radius? Ionic radius is‚ simply put‚ the radius of an ion. An ion is
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The Gettysburg Address: Why‚ how and what happened? On November 19 of 1863‚ during the Civil War of the United States‚ a speech was held in Gettysburg‚ Pennsylvania that would later go down as one of the greatest in American history. The speech was held during the dedication of the Gettysburg Cemetery‚ a cemetery founded to honour the deceased soldiers of the battle of Gettysburg. The 272 word long address that the then current president Lincoln held at this event have been remembered ever since
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. What is not obvious is what has happened to the American people. It isn’t just the commuters‚ whom we have come to visualize as a supine breed who have got on to the trick of suspending their sensory faculties twice a day while they submit to the creeping dissolution of the railroad industry. It isn’t just they who have given up trying to rectify irrational vexations. It is the American people everywhere. But notice that no one did. And the reason no one did is because we are all increasingly
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What Happened To the Hummer? Shawn Morris Wright Career College Mr. Burney EN102 – English Composition April 7‚ 2011 The HMMWV‚ pronounced Humvee‚ short for High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle‚ which went into preliminary design work in 1979‚ was intended as a mobile transport vehicle for American troops. (Burkeman‚ 2008) It gained popularity among civilians as support for the military grew. Versions of the Humvee‚ called the Hummer went into production for the general
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STROKE(cerebrovascular accident/Disambiguation) A stroke‚ or cerebrovascular accident (CVA)‚ is the rapid loss of brain function(s) due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia (lack of blood flow) caused by blockage (thrombosis‚ arterial embolism)‚ or a hemorrhage. As a result‚ the affected area of the brain cannot function‚ which might result: In an inability to move one or more limbs on one side of the body. Inability to understand or formulate
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