The Effects of Internet Addiction
Essay - 4 pages - Computer science
Introduction Ever since the 1980s, PCs and access to the internet have been thriving in thousands of all over the world. Each day, transactions at work, activities inside homes and school work have rapidly become excessively dependent on the use of computers. As these PCs are utilized to...
Are psychopaths untreatable?
Essay - 13 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Psychopathy equals violence. Whatever rubric is used identifies a person with a greater likelihood of violence, often motivated by opportunism, sadism or material gain. Treatment responsivity and harm reduction as treatment success in high-risk or repetitive offenders seems overreaching. It...
Creative psychology
Essay - 8 pages - Psychology
In this essay we discuss some selective creative areas of psychology; of interest to Depth Psychology. Part 1 discusses the influence of romanticism on the famous 20th century psychologist, Carl Jung. Part 2 discusses Jung's psychological perspective on the UFO phenomenon. Finally in part 3 we...
A beautiful mind: Study of Schizophrenia
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
“Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?” (Grazer & Howard, 2001). The hell described in the previous quote is the hell of schizophrenia; of...
As a result of the practice of organ transplantation, do we ultimately require a re-thinking of the meaning of death?
Essay - 7 pages - Medical studies
Ever since its inception in the 1950s, organ transplantation has been accompanied by questions about the ethics of taking organs from the dead and living and giving them to others. Discussions abound among physicians, ethicists, policy makers, and the public. At first living and willing relatives...
France's balance of payments analysis
Essay - 2 pages - Economy general
We are going to focus here on the latest France's balance of payments. The document used is mainly the balance of 2006 which was published on June 19th 2007, but will the previous years will also be useful to define the trend, and especially the 2005 balance because some information are not...
Management of a terroir company: The example of the Burgundian cheese producer Berthaut
Essay - 15 pages - Management
The Fromagerie Berthaut is one of the four AOC Epoisses producers. It is located in Côte d'Or, in Burgundy. Since 1956, this cheese dairy has produced the “Epoisses”, a terroir soft dough cheese made with raw milk. Over the last ten years, the company's sales have regularly increased in...
Lupus
Essay - 5 pages - Medical studies
Recognition of gender and ethnicity from the health aspect has become increasingly imperative for medical practitioners. They are realizing the importance of evaluating health risk factors for both male and female, majority and minority groups, and young and old citizens. As diverse as the...
Psychodynamic/psychoanalytic and cognitive-behavioral approach to the understanding and treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
Obsessive-Compulsive disorder is not yet fully understood, and thus is presently the subject of a number of possible theories regarding its origin and treatment. Despite this controversy however, a number of basic facts regarding the symptoms and diagnosis of the disorder remain consistent...
The process of chemical dependency
Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Peele, Brodsky, and Arnold (1991:133) cited in Dowieko (1993:11) maintain that ‘[addiction] is not an all-or-nothing thing, but a continuum from moderate excess to severe compulsion'. With this citation in mind, I will attempt to discuss both the ‘how' and ‘why' of addiction,...
An investigation into the effect of exercise on clinical depression
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
Problems with depression are by no means limited to those who are clinically diagnosed as being so. Generalised, negative affect is experienced by everyone throughout the course of a lifetime. Usually, non clinical depression is linked to some kind of stressor in the environment which can be...
Understanding the effects of Asperger's syndrome on the parents
Thesis - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome is often indistinguishable, using current standards, from high-functioning autism. Despite this, techniques tailored to individual cases appear show the most promise. Recent studies are too small in scale and subjective in measurements to be...
360-Degree performance appraisals: An overview
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
Performance Appraisals is “the systematic, periodic and an impartial rating of an employee's excellence in the matters pertaining to his present job and his potential for a better job ." Performance appraisal is therefore the process of obtaining, analyzing, and recording information about...
Measurement of pain
Thesis - 9 pages - Medical studies
The pain often makes the patient unfit physically and emotionally by both cluttering and subvert the behavior of the sore subject. The pain prevents you from thinking coherently and induces the patient to seek treatment or relief.According to a reliable model, the pain consists of four...
Phallocracy in Alan Moore's "From Hell"
Book review - 8 pages - Literature
Alan Moore offers a diagnosis of reality that portrays misogyny, homophobia, racism, classism, and governmental tyranny as demonic forces. Moore uses the graphic narrative medium as a means to communicate the demonic nature of these systems of power. In Moore's work on Swamp Thing, he...
Aspects of psychodynamic pharmacotherapy
Thesis - 7 pages - Psychology
Considerations on the doctor-patient drug addict. As long as there are beings who suffer and until their illnesses are not cured, will I be, to help them, their doctor, their resolve and their servant. Start the practice of the bodhisattva. The ability to develop an effective doctor-patient...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A medical case study concerning an elderly man with congestive heart failure
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
For the purpose of this case study the patient shall be referred to as John to ensure patient privacy and confidentiality in accordance with the Health Information Privacy Code 1994 (Burgess, 1999). John is an 80-year-old European male. He lives with his wife who is a very supportive person. John...
Home health nursing initiatives: Mental health outpatient care
Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies
Extending the accessibility of home nursing care for patients with mental illness will greatly improve their health and well being. A psychiatric home care nurse (PHCN) can assist patients with a primary diagnosis of mental illness; in particular, those with a history of not following...
Nursing initiatives: Application of mental health project
Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies
The following paper will describe the home health nursing program previously promoted and approved for implementation concerning mental health outpatient care. It was discussed that patients with mental disorders receive considerable benefits from home care supplemental to their treatment plan...
The mini mental state examination
Case study - 4 pages - Psychology
The Mini Mental State Examination has been a common tool amongst psychologist and doctors for over 25 years. Marshall F. Folstein, Susan E. Folstein, and Paul R. McHugh developed the test in 1975 (Albanese). Since then doctors and researchers alike have tested its accuracy and usefulness. It has...
The treatment of social phobia using cognitive behavior therapy
Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology
Social-phobia has affected how many people live their lives. Social phobia is a serious mental disease, but it is not difficult to diagnose or treat. Many theories and therapies have been used to treat social phobia. But one of the most affective and commonly used therapies is...
A look at the important concepts in finance
Thesis - 10 pages - Finance
RAY G. JONES and DEAN DUDLEY observe that the word finance comes indirectly from the Latin word Finis. Finance is defined as the “Issuance of the distribution of and the purchase of liability and equity claim issued for the purpose of generating revenue-producing assets. These claims are...
Ectopic pregnancy
Presentation - 20 pages - Medical studies
Pregnancy that is implanted outside the uterine cavity at a site that by nature is not designed anatomically or physiologically to accept or permit growth of the conceptus. Doubling timing in normal intrauterine pregnancy is 48 hrs. Minimum 66 % [ range 65 - 100 %] increase over the preceding...
The working of an ayurvedic pharmacy
Thesis - 11 pages - Management
Ayurveda was predominant in Kerala and most of the other parts of India for a long period. But foreign invasion and the subsequent propagation of allopathic medicine made Ayurveda very weak in importance. But newly developed fear of the side effects and long term ill effects of allopathic...
Fuzzy modeling for sensor fault tolerant adaptive control- proposal of a general framework
Thesis - 6 pages - Computer science
In this paper an attempt is made to bring together two independently pursued research topics viz., (1) type I fuzzy modeling and (2) sensor fault tolerant adaptive control. First a brief but succinct review on type I fuzzy modeling is carried out. The same is presented under the following heads,...
The Beck depression inventory
Thesis - 3 pages - Psychology
The most current version of the test is called the Beck Depression Inventory - II (BDI-II). The original version was authored by Aaron T. Beck, Robert A. Steer, and Gregory K. Brown in 1961, and published by the Psychological Corporation. A complete kit, which includes a manual and twenty-five...
