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    Stress

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    Stress has many interpretations and carries a negative connotation for most people. Over the years‚ stress has been indentified in different ways. It was conceived of as pressure from the environment‚ then as strain within the person. Today‚ stress can be known as the interaction between the situation and the person. It is the psychological and physical state that results when the resources of the person are not sufficient to cope with the demands and the pressure of the situation. Stress can undermine

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    Mechanism of Micturition

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    fibres situated close to or within the bladder wall→ UB Somatic nervous systems: Anterior horn cells (Onuf’s nucleus) of S2-S4 segments of spinal cord→ Pudendal nerve  Storage phase: Low-frequency (as stretch is low) afferent impulse from the stress receptor of UB Pelvic nerves (splanchnic‚ hypogastric) Spinal cord Inhibition of sacral parasympathetic Stimulation lumbar sympathetic preganglionic neurons preganglionic neurons Stimulation of Onuf’s nucleus Relaxation of detrusor

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    effects of stress has on the body. In his work‚ Selye - ’the father of stress research‚’ developed the theory that stress is a major cause of disease because chronic stress causes long-term chemical changes. He observed that the body would respond to any external biological source of stress with a predictable biological pattern in an attempt to restore the body’s internal homeostasis. This initial hormonal reaction is your fight or flight stress response - and its purpose is for handling stress very

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    Defense Mechanisms

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    Theories of Personality Name Raisia Williams Applying Defense Mechanisms For each of the situations described below‚ identify which defense mechanism is operating. 1. Marty‚ a rather insecure young executive‚ leases a new BMW. Whenever he and his coworkers go out to lunch. Marty always offers to drive. Identification 2. Sandy‚ a three-year-old who has been toilet trained for some time‚ starts wetting the bed after the birth of her

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    Stress

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    CHAPTER 1 STRESS INTRODUCTION Stress is a common thing in everyone’s life. It is always associated with the happiest movement of life or the dangerous movement of life. Stressstressstress….. Is a common and universal phenomenon for everyone? Stress accumulation is a common problem and you are very difficult to manage it due to your lifestyle and attitude. In most of time‚ the term ‘Stress’ use to express their negative experience that happened in everyone’s life. It either distress

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    Gear Mechanisms

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    Gear and Gear Trains Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Department Faculty of Engineering and Technology Multimedia University of Kenya EMG 2310: Gear Mechanisms Third Year First Semester‚ 2013 BSc. Mechanical Engineering and BSc. Mechatronics Engineering By Dr. Charles M.M. Ondieki August 2013‚ Nairobi Table of Contents 1.0 Gears ....................................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 Advantages and

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    Stress

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    Stress Stress‚ we all struggle with it. "Stress" is a word we’re all familiar with‚ some of us maybe too familiar. Stress cannot be avoided and it is not possible to entirely eliminate it from our lives. The hassles‚ deadlines and frustrations have made stress so common that it has become a way of life for people. Life is full of challenges‚ and a life without it is not only impossible but is also undesirable. Stress is something that can’t be avoided and it isn’t possible to eliminate it from

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    Stress

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    Stress Stress is a term used to describe the physical‚ emotional‚ cognitive‚ and behavioral responses to events that are appraised as threatening or challenging. But for me stress is a mental and emotional distraction condition‚ which is caused due to pressure in everyday life. Stress can have a positive or a negative effect on a person depending on how it is dealt with. For me‚ college is my number one stressor. The causes are academic‚ financial and personal. When it comes to trying to relieve

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    Attachment‚ commitment‚ intimacy‚ passion‚ grief from separation‚ and jealousy are but a few of the emotionally-loaded terms used by Dianne Santorelli’s article for the educational research to describe that feeling of which love represents. On the contrary‚ Maskowitz and Orgel states in the book‚ General Psychology‚ that love‚ hate‚ fear ‚ and anger are just some of the amazing varieties of feelings which appear to be related to the differential actions of the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches

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    Trading Mechanism

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    Trading Mechanism in National Stock Exchange 1. Introduction 1.1 Meaning of Trading Mechanism The trading mechanism in the stock exchange is based on a transaction between a buyer‚ seller‚ and a trading specialist who actually executes transactions in a stock exchange. In general‚ the trading mechanism is similar to a simple auction‚ with investors biddng on a particular stock or security. If the bid is accepted by the owner of the security‚ the trading specialist executes the sale. Most major

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