Biological hazard

accordance with national security strategy  Adheres to the five basic homeland Security missions  Strengthens missions through public and private partnerships  Budget risk drivers include economic pressures, terrorist threats, biological concerns and natural hazards Bottom Up Review (BUR)  Details the enormous challenges of building OneDHS from separate organizations and…

Opioids are among most abused high addictive medications in the USA; mainly they are used to relief pain. Opioids are an umbrella that covers many different drug substances, both natural and synthetic. Opiates are alkaloid compounds naturally found in the opium poppy plant. It has been used for numerous different reasons such as medical, recreational, and religious. Historians reference the opium discovery and use is in 3400 B.C. when the opium poppy was cultivated in lower Mesopotamia,…

others thus; people only gain knowledge for the sole purpose of gaining power. He says that “the goals of power and the goals of knowledge cannot be separated: in knowing we control and in controlling we know”. This concept can be illustrated in the biological sciences through the controversial topic of DNA databases, which I wrote a persuasive paper on for a practice SAT test. This DNA database would be a database the government would be in control of which would hold the DNA of everyone in the…

widespread personal devices like tablets, cell phones, and laptops, which provide the patient 's ability to be online all 24 hours per day (p. 64). It helps to eliminate the distance barrier between doctors and patients as well as organize patients’ biological data for the better treatment. Another advantage of telehealth is Hospital information technology (HIT) that apply for the patients with chronic diseases or heavy traumas that can be treated at home. For the serious illness people who…

During the mid 1990s, scientist had numerous discoveries about endocrine disruption, and that common occurring impurities can inhibit with the natural hormonal signals controlling foetal development. The term endocrine disruptor was created at the wingspread conference center in Wisconsin in 1991. Several articles had a key impact on such a creation. One paper in 1993 by Theo Colborn. Through this paper she stated that the “environmental chemicals distribute the development of the endocrine…

The later decades of the 18th Century gave way to many new ideas not before seen by the likes of society. It was a time full of literature, science, experimentation, and knowledge. It was within these disciplines that electricity shone, it was at the forefront of all major works, with electrical experimentation becoming the most strongly analysed, and written about theories along with, investigations into the states of life and death. One work that highlighted upon all of these uprising ideas…

Pharmaceutical waste creates mass quantities of environmental pollution, and is quickly becoming one of the world’s largest pollution concerns. With the incredible advancements in medicine and pharmaceutical development, the concern for proper disposal of these medications has been largely ignored. Increasing education and public awareness on the subject are two great ways to begin spreading awareness concerning pharmaceutical environmental pollution. Unbeknownst to most people, nurses play a…

Transgender Being transgender is when a person’s gender identity does not conform with their biological sex. Speculating on how people are identifying as a transgender individual is a difficult and very controversial topic to discuss due to the fact that nobody knows what is morally correct. One author, Ruth Padawer, has brought the topic to light, presenting us with examples from one of the most prestigious women’s colleges in the United States. In her 2014 piece, “Sisterhood is Complicated”,…

Security 2014 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review outlines six major challenges that America is facing and will face over the next few years. Those six challenges include: the terrorist threat, cyber threats, biological concerns, nuclear terrorism, transnational criminal organizations and natural hazards (DHS, 2014, 28). The focus of this paper is to address the nature of cyber threats and cyber terrorism in America. When Americans think of the word “terrorism”, most think of the public acts…

to keep the focus on the learning instead of the parts of a body that may or may not be exposed (“"School dress codes 'demeaning'”). The underlying reason for such an environment, as deemed by many schools, is the intent to protect girls from the biological impulses of their male peers. In terms of dress, most school administrators agree that “it is naïve to think that how girls dress does not distract boys. Males react to females — it’s basic biology” (Times Colonist). If a female student were…