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What if it was possible for your child to live a life free of genetic diseases? Advanced reproductive technologies are now “allowing both doctors and parents to screen embryos for genetic diseases and select healthy embryos”. (“Design-a-baby”)(1) InVitro Fertilization is a process in which you fertilize eggs with sperm in test tubes – this is done within a laboratory, outside of the mother. Techniques such as these assist in preventing the chance of a child being born with a genetic disease.…

Cultural inclusiveness and competency (“Talking about practice,” 2012, para.1) regarding immigrant students in Australian school environments, is a process often requiring wider community support and actions (QPASTT, 2014, p. 33). More than the extra efforts of staff, and budgeting are required of the school itself, particularly if the immigrants are refugees. A great deal of personal time and effort from school staff, working with the family of the student often in conjunction with community…

animals (1). That is why having the right levels of phosphorous in the water is so essential. If too much phosphate is present in the water the algae and weeds will grow rapidly, may choke the waterway, and use up large amounts of precious oxygen (in the absence of photosynthesis and as the algae and plants die and are consumed by aerobic bacteria.) The result may be the death of many fish and aquatic organisms. Experimental Methods First, grab seven 150 mL beakers and label them: Blank, 1, 2,…

goal: Patient will return home and perform ADLs with no chest pain within 1 week 1. Periodically assess patient’s pain Rationale: Pain is subjective; as nurses, we cannot know how the patient is feeling and it is important to periodically reassess the patient’s pain to ensure treatment is effective (Ackley, Ladwig, & Makic, 2017) 2. Place patient in semi-Fowlers position Rationale: Elevating the patient’s head may help to relieve some chest pain and allow for deeper breathing, increasing…

Osteoporosis One disease of the bones that affects over 1 million Australians is osteoporosis. This bone-thinning disease greatly increases the risk of fractures and occurs when the “…ratio of bone formation to bone break- down…” becomes out of balance, triggering osteoblast activity to slow down (Whitney, Rady Rolfes, Crow, Cameron-smith & Walsh, 2014, p. 199). Affected bones rapidly lose important minerals, such as calcium, rendering them ineffective in replacing these important minerals…

Ruggieri. There stories may be kept at two different spectrums, but are in fact parallels of one another. Therefore, the story of Francesca and Paolo in Canto V and the story of Ugolino and Ruggieri in Canto XXXIII of the Inferno demonstrate the thin line between love and hate. Francesca was a young woman of her time expected to be in an arranged marriage by her father. One day when a Paolo came to her home, she was under the impression that this handsome man was to be her husband.1 However,…

aggressiveness towards the reverse sex (Noumen 1). Sports that are coed are engaged at a more leisure rate for males but a swifter rate for females. The pace of coed sports help to implement responsible playing, therefore reducing the injury rate. An article written on the ban of coed games stated, “the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg in Pennsylvania has adopted a policy requiring boys on its school wrestling team to forfeit matches against female opponents” (Pilon 1). Forcing athletes…

In the early morning hours of May 23rd, 1987, a man assaulted and murdered two people, but unlike any other ordinary cases, he managed to do so while ‘asleep’. Kenneth Parks, a 23-year-old man living in Toronto, drove approximately 23 km to his in-laws’ home (in the condition of sleepwalking).1 He then broke into the house and seriously injured his father in-law, Dennis Woods, attempting to strangle him to death and murdered his mother in-law, Barbara Woods, using a tire iron and a kitchen…

types of Neurofibromatosis: Type 1 (von Recklinghaus disease, peripheral NF, Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis), Type 2 (bilateral acoustic NF, central NF or vestibular NF), and schwannomatosis. Schwannomatosis used to be considered a variation of neurofibromatosis type 2 but is now recognized as different from neurofibromatosis type 2. Neurofibromatosis types 1 and 2 are autosomal dominant traits. Offspring have a 50% chance of inheriting neurofibromatosis types 1 and 2 from parents. Genetic…

May 2, 2011, the United States finally got revenge after ten long years. Osama bin Laden planned the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2001. Our United States government started to plot out the prosecution of him in August of 2010 (History 1). We were watching the Abbotabad Compound (History 1), in Abbotabad, Pakistan, a town North of Islamabad (Bigelow 1). He was living in the compound with his family, friends, and protectors. He kept many files and hard-drives of all his…