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    With the fire quickly approaching, they had no time to lose. The fire was 50 meters away. Jackson and Julia attempted to away as fast as they could, but it did not seem to be quick enough. It crept ever closer and closer, edging upon the gap between them. The fire was 25 meters away. The wind poured into the fire’s might, strengthening the speed of its burn and its heat. It seemed the two of them would be unable to escape from the fire’s wrath at this point. The fire was 15 meters away. Its rate of spread coupled with Jackson’s slow moving speed made it impossible to outrun the fire. “Push through the pain Jackson! If we don't make it, we are dead! All or nothing!” Julia shrieked. “I don’t think I can! It’s too painful!” Jackson groaned. “Dying at the hands of fire is your only other option. Push. Through. The. PAIN!” Julia replied, not taking no for an answer. The fire had neared even more, as it was 10 meters away. With Jackson unable to escape quickly, their end was inevitable… or so it seemed. As they sprinted right through an especially dense part of brush, a miracle occurred. Jackson was the first to react, immediately crying out, “To that lake! We are SAVED!” A small lake had appeared before them, offering them escape from their brush with death. They willingly dived directly into the water, ecstatically accepting its protection and cooling. “We’re going to make it!” Julia cried out in pure ecstasy. “The forest can’t stop us now!” Since they were both strong…

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    Diathermy Essay

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    Diathermy is a medical treatment using the production of heat in a part of the body by high-frequency electric currents to stimulate the circulation, relieve pain, destroy unhealthy tissue or cause bleeding vessels to clot. Diathermy has positive effects for osteoarthritis due to the biological effects of the condition. Osteoarthritis is a degeneration of joint cartilage and the underlying bone. This usually effects the hip, knee and thumb joints. Osteoarthritis is one of the most common…

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    between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Foreign Offices of Japan began to be intercepted by the U.S. army and deciphered under the Codename “Purple.” In this fiction, decryption difficulties caused by the conversion process of the plaintext into the alphabet are well introduced and the decoded cipher is called “Magic,” as well as the historical fact. And the U.S. cryptocenter section through these difficult tasks finally intercepted a significant message with the subject “Concerning the…

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    One Man Many Nazis You are in Germany at the beginning of the Holocaust. You are being forced to conform to all Nazi laws and beliefs. You are going to be killed if you do not. You are receiving limited information about the world, and you cannot do anything to get true information. Legally, that is. In the novel Brothers In Valor: A Story Of Resistance by Michael O Tunnell, Rudi and his friends, Helmuth and Karl, are experiencing the Nazis and their power. While Rudi and Karl become scared,…

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    Cervical spondylosis - Auxiliary treatment - YOGA There is a strong tendency for the symptoms of cervical spondylosis to subside spontaneously, but can last several months and the structural changes are clearly permanent. Treatment is, therefore, the natural resolution of temporarily inflamed soft tissue on the support or directed edematous. In mild cases, physical therapy is recommended (healing radiation, shortwave diathermy, massage, traction or exercises). In more severe cases judicious…

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    Non Specific Chronic Low Back Pain (NSCLBP) is a common and costly muscular disorder resulting in significant personal, economical, and social burden (Ma, Chan, & Carruthers, 2014). Many treatment approaches were designed to treat NSCLBP. These approaches need to be supported by evidence to assist the clinician to create the best clinical decision making. The European Guide line for Chronic Low back pain support using some treatment approaches as Cognitive-Behavioral treatment approach where…

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    natural gas. When humans burn coal, (the world’s widely available fossil fuel) it releases CO2. CO2 is carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is the most potent greenhouse gas. In the World Wildlife website states, “according to the International Energy Agency the power sector is responsible for 37% of all man-made Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions. It creates about 23 billion tons of CO2 emissions per year – in excess of 700 tons a second. In turn, this CO2 continues to heat up our planet which poses an…

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    Skin Color Evolution

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    are a testament to this as they have some of the fairest and lightest skin pigments seen across the world. Ultraviolet radiation acts as a selective force in the evolution of human skin color and human bodies fronted a defense in the form of pigmentation. [Roy] Consequently, ultraviolet radiation, shortwave ultraviolet radiation specifically, is the main catalyst in the metabolism of Vitamin D, and for that reason there is a high concentration of Vitamin D in darker skin and a lower…

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    Climate Change effect on population What causes climate change to have a big effect on other environmental beings? First it begins with knowing what it is and according to google web, it is “the change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular a change apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels (google.com)” Climate change is known for usually affecting rainfall,…

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    the limitations of these criteria, an international meeting was held in Budapest in 2003 with the goal of recommending improvements to the IASP criteria. The result was a modified IASP criteria called the “Budapest Criteria”. A study done by Harden et al. (2010) provided support for proposals to adopt the “Budapest Criteria” as the standard for clinical CRPS diagnosis. Evidence has showed that there are a number of different treatment interventions being used either as a stand-alone treatment…

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