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13 juil. 2009
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Thesis - 3 pages - Medical studies

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the name given to chronic bronchitis and emphysema, two conditions which often exist together and cause the narrowing of the airways. This causes a limitation on the amount of air that is circulated through the lungs and results in shortness of...

10 juil. 2009
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Structuring the communication process between the nurse and patient/client

Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies

Communication is possibly one of the most important tasks nurses perform in the execution of their duties. We may as a matter of habit take for granted the way we greet and end encounters with those around us, not considering what these actions portray. As professionals greater emphasis must be...

08 juil. 2009
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A study of LCD displays

Dissertation - 36 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

The important considerations in the present field of electronics and electronic technologies are automation, power consumption and cost effectiveness. Automation is intended to reduce the manpower with the help of intelligent systems. In this project, we are going to count the number of...

08 juil. 2009
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A study of home security system

Thesis - 27 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

Home security systems provide security from threats such as intruders or thieves, by sounding a siren to grab the attention of the public. Two sensor pairs are placed in the system. Among them one pair of receiver sensors is connected to the entrance of the house and the transmitter is carried by...

07 juil. 2009
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A study of global position system (GPS) receivers

Tutorials/exercises - 80 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

With today's global position system (GPS) receivers, we are able to pinpoint our own position, but what's more useful about GPS receivers is that they can transmit our position information to other receivers. We decided to use both of these features to create a wireless vehicle navigation system....

07 juil. 2009
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A study of tele-operated intelligent mobile robots

Dissertation - 30 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

Real time embedded systems are time-critical systems that are hard to implement as compared to traditional software, due to large numbers of conflicting requirements. This project describes an application of advance modeling techniques to improve the development of embedded systems. In our...

07 juil. 2009
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How to control a Dish antenna from a remote area

Thesis - 25 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

The development of this Remote Controlled Dish Antenna application requires the configuration of the micro controller architecture, writing (code) and debugging of the application program. In this application the status of the dish antenna such as direction, angle will be controlled by the user...

07 juil. 2009
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Applications and Limitations of Diagnostic Imaging - published: 07/07/2009

Presentation - 58 pages - Medical studies

The traditional evaluation of the patient includes the history and physical examination and a well-planned set of diagnostic tests, often including imaging. Dramatic advances in imaging not only supplement the physical examination, but also now may begin to substitute for part of it. Medical...

06 juil. 2009
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Applications using RF modules

Dissertation - 36 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

An embedded project is a combination of hardware and software, designed to perform a specific task. In embedded technology the embedded programming is burnt into the AT8C52 micro controller. The main scope of the project is mainly based on the advertising of applications using RF Modules. In...

06 juil. 2009
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Sexuality of older women with select chronic illnesses

Thesis - 3 pages - Medical studies

The literature of human sexual dysfunction tends to focus on the problems of men; specifically erectile dysfunction. There are relatively fewer investigations into sexual problems experienced by women, even though the studies that have been conducted indicate that women experience sexual...

03 juil. 2009
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Study of Gibberellins' Effect on Height and Biomass of Rosette and Wild Type Brassica rapa

Case study - 6 pages - Biology

Gibberellins (GA) are plant hormones involved with overall plant growth. Brassica Rapa, a flowering plant species, which possesses the wild type phenotype or the rosette, dwarfed, phenotype, was used to explore the effects of Gibberellins on the two varieties' overall height, which can have an...

21 juin 2009
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Actions of a progestin derived from 19-norprogestérone on the mammary gland: The nomégestrol acetate

Thesis - 14 pages - Medical studies

Réceptologie work showed that the acetate nomégestrol a high specificity and affinity for the progesterone receptor, especially in the normal human breast tissue and cancer. It significantly inhibits the synthesis of progesterone receptors in breast cancer cells, hormone-dependent human T-47D in...

20 juin 2009
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Mini-epidemics of infection by Pseudomonas and its outbreak

Thesis - 6 pages - Medical studies

Although outbreaks of infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa pseu extra-mural have been described, this germ is not pathogenic in the immune competent host. For against, it is a major agent of nosocomial infections, especially in the ICU, where he is responsible for pneumonia, urinary or skin...

20 juin 2009
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Serotonin syndrome: A risk that should not be overlooked

Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies

Serotonin syndrome is a complication potentially lethal psychotropic. It is characterized by altered mental status and the presence of disorders neuro vegetative and neuromuscular. In most cases, this syndrome is secondary to the prescription of several drugs responsible for an increased rate of...

20 juin 2009
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Reducing multi-medication in the elderly

Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies

The multi medication is generally defined as taking more than four concomitant medications. However, it can also be defined as the prescribing or use more drugs than those actually needed to care for a patient. The latter definition adds a qualitative dimension, that of the adequacy of the...

20 juin 2009
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Prevention of recurrence of pre-term birth by progesterone

Thesis - 8 pages - Medical studies

For years, the prescription of progesterone in the event of a threat of premature birth was normal, despite the absence of any demonstration of a fetal or neonatal benefit in this situation. The description of an increased risk of cholestasis of pregnancy during this treatment was terminated this...

19 juin 2009
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LED syndrome antiphospholipide and CNS

Thesis - 11 pages - Medical studies

The neurolupus represents the second leading cause of death in the LED. Although its incidence is high, it remains difficult to diagnose because of the diversity of events and the possible confusion with other brain diseases. In the absence of pathognomonic lesions, the diagnostic approach based...

18 juin 2009
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Optical fiber based communication systems

Thesis - 26 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

For years, fiber optics has been merely a system for piping light around corners and into the inaccessible places to allow the hidden to be lighted. But now, fiber optics has evolved into a system of significantly greater importance and use. Throughout the world, it is now being used to transmit...

18 juin 2009
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Pharmacodynamics of substance abuse

Thesis - 9 pages - Medical studies

Abuse of pharmacologically active substances has attracted in recent decades numerous pharmacological studies, using a wide range of models and methods, and generating a considerable literature. Several reasons explain this trend: first, of course, the extent of the scourge, the severity of their...

18 juin 2009
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Lupus erythematosus and respiratory

Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies

Most patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have, during their illness, respiratory reached the most frequent is the pleurisy (one of the eleven diagnostic criteria recognized by the American Rheumatism Association). The respiratory events that found in the LED cover both the lung...

18 juin 2009
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Intrinsic asthma

Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies

It is widely accepted that asthma is a clinical manifestation of atopy. Specially relevant in children, this concept is less obvious in adults where there is the classic distinction between asthma "extrinsic" (allergic) and "intrinsic" (non-allergic). Intrinsic Asthma is deliberately late third,...

18 juin 2009
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Concrete technology

Presentation - 410 pages - Physics

The presentation is based on concrete and starts with the objectives of the presentation and moves onto a review of the composition of concrete. It then moves towards RCC structures and covers points like methods used in the designing of RCC structures, the codes used and the functions of...

17 juin 2009
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E-Horoscope

Dissertation - 43 pages - Computer science

First, a horoscope is an astrological map of the heavens keyed to the time and place of a specific birth. It is a kind of a map that appears as a two dimensional chart. It shows positions of the Sun, the Moon, and planets at the precise moment of your birth. The earth moves from west to east &...

17 juin 2009
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Asynchronous messaging services using Java

Dissertation - 47 pages - Computer science

Messaging Services provides asynchronous communication facility between two Business organizations. This system saves the time, money and reduces the man-power and both participant organizations may be benefited by each other. Consider two business organizations are an insurance company and the...

16 juin 2009
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One dimensional cellular automata based security scheme with both authentication and confidentiality

Thesis - 11 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

In the past few years organization have widely adopted local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN) and internet to take advantages of advancement in technology1, 2. As a result of connecting private and internal network to the outside network, exchange of information is greatly facilitated....

16 juin 2009
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Security using firewalls

Thesis - 6 pages - Computer science

In this age of universal electronic connectivity of viruses and hackers, of electronic Eavesdropping and electronic fraud, there is indeed no time at which security does not matter. The explosive growth in computer systems and their interconnections via network has increased the dependence of...

16 juin 2009
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Active character technology based on neural networks Genetic Algorithms and AI

Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science

A combination of Neural networks genetic algorithms and conventional computing in Multimedia and Gaming industry has never been attempted before. Existing technologies operate on fixed databases and manipulate limited data that is bound by some logical algorithm. Even many of the AI based...

16 juin 2009
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Network security on Bluetooth

Essay - 5 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

Wireless communications offer organizations and users many benefits such as portability and flexibility, increased productivity, and lower installation costs. Wireless local area network (WLAN) devices, for instance, allow users to move their laptops from place to place within their offices...

16 juin 2009
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Nano-robots: The molecular manipulators

Thesis - 8 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

A human fetus begins life as a single cell, and then divides to become two cells, then four, then eight and so on. Nanotechnology aims to build in a similar way, constructing objects out of their most basic components. A nanometer is a thousandth of a millionth of a meter. This is about as far...

16 juin 2009
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A look at cogeneration

Thesis - 14 pages - Computer science

Power is one of the basic requirements for the economic development of a country. The performance of various activities is dependent on the availability of adequate and reliable power supply. Our country has made a rapid progress in the field of electricity generation. Thermal power plants are a...