Biological hazard

and different deadly or non-deadly diseases. Moreover, the use of genetic engineering can also lead to minor and major effects of safety. Paul Arnold from Livescience explains that, “The human genome and our whole bodies are a maze of complicated biological signals, pathways and interrelationships. A positive change upstream could cause a negative effect downstream” (Arnold).…

Conducting a community assessment can be beneficial to any area that is being assessed. What is a community assessment? A community assessment is a field within public health concerned with the study and improvement of the health of biological communities. (Dictionary, 2016) What are the kinds of things people would look for in a health community? People would look for a clean and safe environment with a healthy, functioning ecosystem, a large degree of the public participating in beneficial…

1.1. Sustainable Development The idea of energy efficient, healthy buildings has been around for a long time, it is now that the concept of “green” or “sustainable” building has entered the mainstream and catching the global attention. There are probably several reasons; Global Warming, rising energy costs, the growing awareness, declining oil reserves, and concerns about our limited water supply. The list goes on, but whatever the reason or reasons; energy efficient building is a concept whose…

everything in his power to avoid his fate, but through these actions the prophecy came true. When Oedipus goes to see the Oracle of Delphi, the Oracle avoids answering the question of whether the King and Queen of Corinth are truthfully Oedipus’s biological parents and instead tells him the prophecy that he will murder his father and marry his mother. Though Oedipus never receives a direct answer to his question, he doesn’t investigate the matter any further, believing that the King and Queen…

often rife with ethical arguments over whether or not certain studies or products should be allowed or not. Lately, these debates have gotten more intense as a result of a new technology that is revolutionizing both research and industry in the biological sciences. The new technology in question has the cryptic name; CRISPR/Cas9, which acts like a microscopic pair of scissors that can cleave DNA sequences with unprecedented precision and speed when compared to any other technique that is…

When I think about genetically modified foods the immediate thoughts of lies, betrayal, and dangers come to mind. There are the lies that promote the production of these foods, there is the betrayal of our government and multiple agencies that are supposed to protect us as a people and keep us informed of whether there is safety in growing and eating these foods, and, at worse, the danger surrounding the consumption of these foods which correlates with the arising issues among the human populace…

person in charge of the clean-up can decide from. There are factors that need to be taken into account before a method can be chosen, some of these factors are: • Wind • Sea conditions (i.e. Waves and Currents) • Location • Type of oil • And Potential Hazards Methods of Clean Up: • Containing the spill using booms and skimmers. This method is ideal for use when the ocean is calm. Booms are inflatable tubes which are used to gather the spilled oil whereupon skimmers then move in and ‘suck’ up…

complications as well as socioeconomic complexities that are essential knowledge to achieve levels of civic effectiveness that this nation requires of its citizens. Therefore, I propose a sex education program that not only educates in the factual biological processes involved in sexual activity but also in the social, emotional, legal, financial and ethical issues surrounding the matter. In my travels through a…

Reflection of Resilience Thinking in Urbanism Researches as Urban Resilience Resilience in the city, entitled “urban resilience”, is defined as the capacity of cities to continue their activity under extreme pressure regardless of the type of shock or stress they face, so that the people who live and work within the cities, especially the poor and the vulnerable, can survive and grow steadily (The Rockefeller Foundation, 2014). In recent researches, the latest definition of urban resilience…

rBGH, yet in places such as Canada and Europe, rBGH injections into cows are totally banned. That’s really saying something about U.S. regulations dealing with GMO’s especially since this particular chemical has been proven to have potential cancer hazards in lab test done on rats and the United Nations food standards body has refused to certify this chemical as safe (Cummins, 83). Why would the United States allow these type of chemicals to be included in our food sources when numerous test…