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Addiction Potential Scale vs Addiction Severity Index The Addiction Potential Scale (APS) and the Addiction Severity Index (ASI) are both used to measure substance abuse. Each one has its advantages and disadvantages, but they both work together to determine not only who has the potential to become addicted to alcohol and drugs, but also the severity of the addiction. Both are critical to assessing a person’s addiction, or likeliness to develop an addiction, so that the individual can be treated…

In the reading, Phil Tiemeyer, gives a unique spin off of the telltale story of the infamous Gaëton Dugas. A man who could arguably be called the Hitler of the AIDS epidemic. In fact, not only does Tiemeyer say that the things people have learned about Mr. Dugas was a fabricated myth, but he also defends Dugas, by saying he could not have even been patient zero. An audacious claim to make about the villain of the late 20th century, however, surprisingly Tiemeyer does not speak without compelling…

The Result With full data sheet of Rampo Valley Reservation park and Harriman State Park, we determine the relative density, frequency, relative frequency, relative dominance and important value. <Table 1> is Ramapo Valley Reservation Park’s table . <Table 2> is Harriman State Park’s table. Relative density is percentage of number of individual of one species by sum of the individuals of all species. Relative frequency is percentage of frequency by sum of the frequencies of all…

Different parts of the world have different political regimes and not many succeed in achieving being called a democratic state. In 2016 democracy is the political regime that the most powerful countries in the world follow. The list includes Norway, U.S.A, Germany and Sweden. Progressively, many countries are working on becoming a democracy. Some are being more prosperous, others struggle. It is not exactly easy to become a democratic country due to many requirements to fit the qualification.…

In his conducted reviews “Sectoral conflict and foreign economic policy”, Jeff Frieden examines the distinctive American domestic characters that played a major role on drafting the U.S foreign policy the period between the year of 1914 to 1940, he claims that the American foreign policy was a collective settlement that are pushed by two groups of bureaucratic actors that are clearly motived by contrastive economic interests. For example, he identified that despite the impressive enthusiasm that…

“What is this?” Said the small girl clinging to her mother’s thin leg, “ Well, this piece of pottery is called the the Ancient Greece Drinking Vessel.” Her hands swinging around while trying to explain the artwork to this little girl and her family. The little girl looking confused as ever. The docent gave a little smile and a laugh, “ Maybe a little to complicated for you huh?” The little girl nodded her small head in response. “Well I think I can make this a little bit easier to understand…

Our results found that populations 1 and 2 had similar means for tail shaft color, throat color, and malar stripe (see Table 1); however, the standard deviation for tail color between population 1 and population 2 greatly differs from the ones found in throat color and malar stripe. For the two populations (populations 3 and 4) on the edge within the hybrid zone, the mean greatly differ for all three traits with an average drop of 1.83 between the two populations for each of the three traits…

Proactiv Solution is a company that distributes skin-care products. This company is most known for their anti-acne products because of their copious amounts of advertisements. Since Proactiv is heavily promotes anti-acne, their target audience for their advertisements would mainly be teenagers. Proactiv’s advertisements are mainly endorsed by several famous celebrities. For instance, the most recent advertisement features actress Julianne Hough endorsing Proactiv's Acne System. In the…

GDP or Gross Domestic Product is defined as the total market value of all final good and service produced in a given year. It is a simple formula that adds together personal consumption expenditures, gross private domestic investment, government purchases, and Net Exports, otherwise expressed as GDP= C+ Ig+G+Xn. The Social Security number was never supposed to be a number for identification. Just the same, GDP is being used for a purpose other than what it was designed for. It was not to be an…

Abstract Objective: Snoring and body mass index (BMI) have been previously reported to be associated with metabolic syndrome(MetS). The aim of this study is to explore the individual effects and possible interaction of snoring and BMI on MetS. Methods: A total of 3794 coal miners aged 18-65 years old were recruited from Shanxi province of China. The individual effects were assessed by multivariable logistic regression model. The interaction on an additive scale between snoring and BMI was…