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Diabetes 3

... The eyes are also affected. The small blood vessels of the retina become damaged leading to decreased night vision and ultimately blindness. Poor kidney function and kidney failure may also arise due to thickening of the blood vessels in the kidneys. Protein leaks into the urine and the blood is not filtered normally. Skin is greatly affected by diabetes Mellitus. There is poor blood flow to the skin which causes loss of feeling. Sores and deep infections called diabetic ulcers occur because of this. Pregnancy is affected by diabe ...

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Genetics Engineering

... or any other description you can think of. The secret code of DNA would prove to be invaluable. This is the reason the Human Genome Project has been started. Scientist around the world are using super computers to crack the code. This 15 year project is predicted to end by the year 2005(Dewitt, 1994). That is only 10 years from now. What does that mean to the average Joe? Well, today we already live with genetically engineered items. The FDA has approved bioengineered tomatoes that ripen without rotting(Dewitt, 1994). Entire herds of catt ...

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Magic And Science

... mystery that science is unable to explain. They leave their mark and give people something to think about, a mark which will never be forgotten. Although magic is able to deceive the minds of many, few understand its effect of misdirection of the human mind. The first accounts of magic were recorded around 1700 B.C. It appeared on the Westcon Papyrus and was recorded by an Egyptian chronicler. Stories of magic were handed down for centuries (Blackstone, 12). It has made a profitable living for soothsayer and gypsies, but there are times w ...

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Stop Pollution

... water for rivers, streams, lakes and us. Oxygen is generated by the oceans and carbondioxide absorbed. The oceans contain tons of microscopic plants, or phytoplankton which lives on carbondioxide dissolved in the seawater. Oceans absorb up to 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year, making the sea one of the Earth's key defenses against global warming. Oceans have a great potential for heat storage, the top two or three meters hold as much heat as the entire atmosphere. This warmth is continuously redistributed by surface and convection ...

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Animal Experimentation

... of principle designed to ensure humane treatment and use of laboratory animals. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Use of Animals in Research Some of the earliest recorded studies involving animals were performed by Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), who revealed anatomical differences among animals by dissecting them (Rowan, 1984). The Greek physician Galen (A.D. 129-199) maintained that experimentation led to scientific progress and is said to have been the first to conduct demonstrations with live animals--specifically pigs-a practice later extended ...

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The Mars Alive Documentary

... if the winds become strong, because of the high amount of dust, dust storms can occur. Mars is also a very cool atmosphere; too cool for the survival of civilization. Some of the countries who have made these descriptions include the Soviet Union, Russia, and America. The Soviets are obsessed with space travel, and always have been. They posses an ideal vision of life on Mars. The Russians pride themselves for their excellent space survival. Unfortunately, the country does not have the funds to carry out their survival plans. ...

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Dioxins

... aromática policrorados extremadamente tóxicos. Pertenecen a la familia de hidrocarburos y son producidas principalmente durante los procesos de combustión. Están compuestas por la liberación de cloro al quemarse, juntándose con moléculas de carbono e Hidrógeno (comúnmente presentes en el aire). Por mucho tiempo se les usó como pesticida, pero ya dejaron de ser efectivas pues algunas clases de insectos, lograron transformarse para que las dioxinas no surgieran un efecto mortífero en ellos y por tanto dejaron de ser efectivas. Esto ll ...

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The Problem With The Amount Of Trash In The United States

... things out it is a good help but due to the fact that it just goes to landfills they get to overpacked and the landfills can’ t handle the whole load. According to the documents, in 1990, Americans generated 269 million tons of municipal waste which is an average of 1.089 tons per person. In 1997, this had increased to 340 million tons which is an average of 1.272 tons per person and this amount is getting higher and higher each year and we need to put a stop to this. Trash is not a problem far from us, it is right here in our community. ...

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Fermentatiom By Yeast

... test solution would release the Carbon Dioxide by-product the quickest, by the addition of the yeast solution. The best results came from galactose, which produced .170 ml/minute of carbon dioxide. Followed by glucose, this produced .014 ml/minute; finally, sucrose which produced .012ml/minute of Carbon Dioxide. The test solutions water and glycine did not release Carbon Dioxide because they were not a food source for yeast. The results suggest that sugars are very good energy sources for a cell where amino acid, Glycine, is not. ...

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Ozone Depletion In The Antarctic

... about the cause of the ozone hole over the Antarctic, but the one that is regarded as most probable by the scientific community is that the hole was created by man made substances. These substances are chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's). CFC's are found to be emitted into the atmosphere by solvents, refrigerators, and spray can propellants mainly in the Northern Hemisphere. CFC's disperse throughout the stratosphere and breakdown to release chlorine. Chlorine by itself is a very stable compound, but when in the stratosphere it binds to ...

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Skylab

... booster. Almost immediately, problems developed due to vibrations during lift-off. A critical meteoroid shield ripped off taking one of the craft's two solar panels with it; a piece of the shield wrapped around the other panel keeping it from deploying. Skylab was maneuvered so its Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) solar panels faced the Sun to provide as much electricity as possible. Because of the loss of the meteoroid shield, however, this positioning caused workshop temperatures to rise to 126 degrees F. The launch of Skylab 2 was postponed ...

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Gulf War Syndrome

... . After reading many articles about there is still no definite definition. Many scientists have different definitions of the syndrome. For example, Gunjan Sinja states that scientist Garth Nicolson, chairman of tumor biology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, defines the syndrome as Mycoplasma fermentans. Sinha also stated that Mycoplasma fermentan was “the most poorly studied bug on the list (Sinha 70).” Nicolson has found that the M. fermentans is nested inside the cells of almost half of al ...

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