Game theory: Negotiation - published: 07/05/2009
Thesis - 3 pages - Mathematics
Investigate the use of game theory in negotiation. What are some of the ways it might be used? How is it a more effective method for producing a good outcome for a negotiator than more traditional methods? In our case, we have to imagine a negotiation situation. It is just to imagine two parts...
Smart wireless foot pedal: How to make one specific to medical equipment
Presentation - 25 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
In this project, we will be developing a micro controller based wireless foot pedal system to be used along with medical equipment. Most of the surgical equipments will be controlled by the foot pedals. Most of the surgical equipment will be controlled by the foot pedals. The parameters such as...
How visual images are captured and encoded by the retina and represented in the primary visual cortex
Thesis - 8 pages - Medical studies
Visual perception is the ability to interpret information from visual light reaching the eye, the resulting perception of this information is sight. Light is electromagnetic energy that is emitted in the form of waves, it is reflected off an object to enter the eye, and is refracted by the eye to...
Biological effects of ultrasound
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Medical studies
Medical sonography, high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), and ultrasound-enhanced systemic thrombolysis are just three of the medical applications of the natural phenomenon of ‘ultrasound,' high frequency sound waves that are undetectable to the human ear. Ultrasound waves have a number...
Progress of Alzheimer's disease
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Medical studies
Alzheimer's disease is a progressively debilitating condition that occurs in stages, from pre-Alzheimer changes in brain cognitive functioning to late stage deterioration. The disease process includes memory loss, lack of ability to perform formerly easily carried out higher-motor skill...
Genetically modified trees: A natural concern
Thesis - 4 pages - Geology
Smell the scent of flowering honeysuckle, hear the chirping of birds, and the wind in the boughs coupled with the crunch of foliage beneath the feet. The air is pristine, the sky is clear blue, and the sounds of nature are all around. A forest is timeless almost, before mankind ever existed or...
Olfaction and Alzheimer's: How and why are they connected?
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
For many years olfaction has been the most disregarded and least studied sense in the scientific and medical communities. Consequently, the amount of knowledge about how olfaction works is small compared to the vast knowledge we have about the other four human senses2. Olfaction is the chemical...
Determination of outer sphere and total Chloride content, and formula of unknown Co complex by ion exchange chromatography and Fajan's method
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Physics
The objective of this lab is to determine the formula of an unknown Co (III) complex through determination of outer sphere chloride content and hence total chloride content in the complex. Co (III) tends to form numerous coordination complexes, of which the most common ones are those with ammine...
The care of an elderly person in the mental health system: A patient-led approach
Thesis - 6 pages - Medical studies
This account will reflect on the skills of a nurse, observed at an older person's functional mental health unit. It will focus on the organization of care, and skills used when dealing with a Multi Disciplinary Team. (MDT) It gives an understanding of the skills used to clearly establish and...
The importance of accurate diagnosis of the mentally
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
Assessment of a patient in an acute phase of mental illness could arguably be one of the most important tasks that a registered mental health nurse faces in their career. The importance of gaining the correct information at this critical stage leaves little margin for error. Sullivan (1990)...
A critical analysis of a health promotion initiative
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
One of the fundamental roles of the nurse is the promotion and maintenance of health as declared by the Vienna Declaration on nursing (1988) and cited in Salvage (1993). This reflective account, will discuss the presentation of a health promotion initiative by a third year mental health nursing...
An analysis of patient autonomy within the British mental health system
Thesis - 6 pages - Medical studies
Being subject to Section three of the Mental Health Act 1983 removes some rights taken for granted by members of today's society. Patients subject to this Mental Health Act may find it difficult to exercise the right of autonomy, and furthermore face many ethical dilemmas whilst under a Mental...
The UV-vis spectra of conjugated dyes are interpreted using the multielectron particle-in-a-box model
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Physics
The purpose of this lab is to observe how a real system may be approximated using the simple quantum mechanical model of a one-dimensional particle-in-a-box. Due to the arrangement of the electrons in the conjugated dyes, some electrons are free to move along the molecule's carbon-carbon...
Synthesis and analysis of ammonium vanadates and determination of water and vanadium content in ammonium decavanadate using manganometry
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Physics
The objective of this experiment is to synthesize ammonium decavanadate (NH4)6V10O28.6H2O and ammonium trivanadate NH4V3O8 and subsequently determine the water and vanadium content in ammonium decavanadate. Vanadium in the +5 oxidation state forms numerous species in aqueous solution and a tight...
Determination of Avogadro's number by spreading a monolayer of stearic acid on a known surface area
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
Avogadro's law states that equal volumes of gases, at the same temperature and pressure, contain the same number of molecules. Avogadro's constant(?)is the number of molecules in one mole of any substance, and it is known to be 6.02 x 1023. This laboratory exercise attempts to experimentally...
Determining enthalpies of reaction by calorimetry
Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Physics
The purpose of this lab is to determine the specific heat of the calorimeter, the enthalpy changes of 4 different reactions, namely Heat of Solution of NaOH(s), Heat of Solution of KNO3(s), the Heat of Neutralization of HCl(aq) and NaOH(aq), and the Heat of Reaction of NaOH(s) and HCl(aq), and...
Using UV-vis spectroscopy to determine the kinetics of bromophenol blue
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
The purpose of this lab is to determine the rate constant and order of reaction for an acid-base indicator, bromophenol blue. Bromophenol blue (BP) displays a color change from yellow to purple in the pH range of 3 to 4.5. In strong alkaline solutions, the dye becomes unstable and decomposes due...
Should body mass or lean body mass be used to calculate and prescribe resistance loads for the wingate test?
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
The purpose of this study was to determine whether assigned loads for the Wingate anaerobic cycle ergometer test (WAnT) test should be based on lean body mass (LBM) or body mass (BM) and to define optimal loads for eliciting maximal peak power output (PPO) which was used as the performance...
An analysis concerning whether or not V02 max data is different between male and female sample groups
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
Abstract - Purpose: The study aimed to assess whether VO2 max data is significantly different between male and female sample groups when eliminating the affects of body mass (BM), this was analyzed through the use of scaling methods. Method: Subjects (33 male, 21 female) performed a V02 max test...
Cancer immunotherapy :Study of T-Cell antigen receptor signaling functions
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
Cancer immunotherapy attempts to harness the immune system, including T cells, to target and eliminate malignant T cells in the host. However, generating efficient tumor immunity presents a major challenge to the scientist. The immune system is unable to recognize the tumor cells. These cells are...
Investigating the frequencies of gene and genotype in the human population
Thesis - 21 pages - Biology
Mendelian genetics is built on the work done by the "father of genetics", Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884). His contributions to the study of inheritance paved the way for our basic understanding of how traits are inherited from one generation to the next. He was also instrumental in applying...
A novel antibiotic drug delivery mechanism
Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies
On the most basic level, protein engineering entails changing an existing protein sequence for a new purpose.1 Although a rather young field, the last decade has seen a giant leap in the understanding of protein structure and function. The advent of DNA shuffling in 1994, for example, has led to...
Characterization of the niche for stem cell self-renewal in the hippocampus
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
Shortly after John Gearhart's amazing discovery of isolating and growing embryonic stem cells in culture, he made the following prediction, “The potential of these unique, versatile cells for human biologic studies and medicine is enormous”. In fact, many have underestimated the...
Designing an electro-mechanical device with automatic target detection and firing mechanism and a provision for remote controlling the device
Tutorials/exercises - 35 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
The main aim of any security organization is to provide a comprehensive security net to its client. However, in the process the cost of the whole process in terms of labor and money needs to be considered. Many times the work force gets limited due to reasons such as unavailability of suitable...
Analyzing district nursing in relation to the diabetic patient
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
In today's National Health Service (NHS) developments in technology, changing patterns of disease and reduced length in hospital stays are putting district nurses at the heart of Government policy. Liberating the Talents, the governments framework for nursing in primary care (Department of Health...
Patient's right to refuse life sustaining treatment
Tutorials/exercises - 15 pages - Medical studies
Medicine and law overlap in regards to numerous issues, none more controversial than a patient's right to refuse life sustaining treatment. When a patient is suffering an incurable and irreversible medical condition they face the extremely difficult decision of whether or not to continue...
Legal and economic analysis of the use of performance enhancing drugs
Thesis - 13 pages - Medical studies
Drug testing of athletes has been a controversial issue since the dawn of sports competition. The use of performance enhancing drugs remains a heavily debated issue of sports policy that has reached the congressional and Supreme Court level. Athletes of all ages use performance enhancing drugs to...
Online airline reservation system
Dissertation - 49 pages - Computer science
One of the most common modes of travel is traveling by air. Customers who wish to travel by air nowadays have a wide variety of airlines and a range of timings to choose from. Nowadays competition is so fierce between airlines that there are lot of discounts and a lot of luxuries given to...
Height and seed type preferences of the Black-Capped Chickadee
Thesis - 5 pages - Biology
The practices and behaviors employed by the black-capped chickadee displayed selective strategies towards the active foraging of food in the months prior to winter. The chickadees would collect food at a high rate, hide them, and subsequently return for additional food. The analysis demonstrated...
Development of a simulator for radar interface in Bharat Electronics Limited
Dissertation - 52 pages - Computer science
Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) was established in 1954 as a public sector enterprise under the Ministry of Defense. BEL, a premier Professional Electronics Company of India, has established and nurtured a strong in-house R&D base over the years to emerge and remain as a market leader in the...
