996 Search Results for Understanding Biology
Intelligent Design
Man has always asked questions about how the world began. All cultures in the ancient world had origin myths. People looked to higher powers, or deities, or life forces, to explain what they could not understand. Researchers do no Continue Reading...
Critical Thinking Exercise: Marriage, Biology and Crime1Marriage has been identified as an important event that encourages criminals to stop offending. What mechanisms do you believe could account for the impact of marriage on offenders?Although marr Continue Reading...
These crises are a direct result of way in which the deformed red blood cells adhere to both each other and the insides of the blood vessel walls, blocking tissues from receiving oxygen. The disease is prevalent across some parts of Africa, the Midd Continue Reading...
In males, the canine teeth tend to be longer, and sharper. Additionally, there appears to be greater variation in size and shape of male canines, in comparison to the relatively stable size and shape of the female canine. Often, the size differences Continue Reading...
With this understanding, HR departments can focus their hiring practices to highlight individuals with characteristics and personality traits that are correlative to the organizational culture (Liao & Chuang 2004). Moreover, finding a practical Continue Reading...
Examining DementiaAbstractThis paper examines the health issue of dementia. It focuses on its impact on the human nervous system and identifies symptoms, causes, and prevalence both in the United States and globally. Management and treatment strategi Continue Reading...
Food WasteIntroductionFood loss and waste is a contributor to the problem of global environmental degradation and economic inefficiency. What makes it worse is that it could be prevented. Yet, at the household level, where food waste can be most easi Continue Reading...
Brain ResearchUnderstanding the human brain and how it functions helps to better understand which teaching approaches can be most effective. Four major findings from neuroscience, namely neuroplasticity, the importance of early experiences, the role Continue Reading...
Vertical Jump Movement Analysis
The vertical jump is a body movement that is commonly associated with sports persons especially in specialized sporting areas like basketball and volleyball. The success of any sports man in these games is largely attr Continue Reading...
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Albrecht von Grafe, or Graefe, was born on May 22, 1828 and died July 20, 1870. Graefe He was considered by many, a Prussian pioneer and founding father of 19th century ophthalmology. (Daroff and Aminoff) Father to Albrecht vo Continue Reading...
Research Proposal on the Smallpox Vaccine: Controversy, Shift, and Social ImpactThe smallpox vaccine was a major step in the birth and development of the vaccine industry. To some extent, it set the stage for the start of what would eventually emerge Continue Reading...
Cognitive DevelopmentIn A Conversation with Robert Sapolsky, the interviewee discusses the role that stress hormones play on neurons in the brain, and how they might affect the onset of Alzheimers or stress patients. His first goal in research is to Continue Reading...
The Hippocampus Region of the Brain and PTSD Prevention
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This paper examines the relationship between neuroscience and PTSD. In particular it looks at recent findings in neuroscience regarding PTSD onset and prevention. The latest research sh Continue Reading...
Should Animals Be Used in Scientific Testing for Medical Research or Commercial Products?
The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all t Continue Reading...
......coping resources in salespersons' emotional exhaustion" by Jeffrey E. Lewin and Jeffrey K. Sager discusses in the abstract, sales person blowout. Salesperson blowout is a continuing major concern in industrial marketing organizations ( Continue Reading...
Ego Psychology
LaFond Padykula, N. And Conklin, P. (2010). The self-regulation model of attachment trauma and addiction. Clinical Social Work, 38(4), 351-360.
DOI: 10.1007/s10615-009-0204-6
LaFond Padykula theorized the self-regulation model (SRM) Continue Reading...
When DNA is damaged, cells can react through cell cycle checkpoints which allows repair to begin before further division can occur. There is also the prokaryotic SOS response which changes gene expression in bacteria as a result of DNA damage. This Continue Reading...
Darwin and Determinism
All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience is for it.
Samuel Johnson
James Boswell's Life of Johnson (1791)
Are we the conscious authors of our actions or do our actions happen to us? A casual discussion Continue Reading...
Clinical Psychology and Gender Dysphoria
Advancement of Clinical Psychology with Gender Dysphoria
Clinical psychology is recognized as a psychology branch that deals with the assessment and treatment of abnormal behavior, mental illness, and psychi Continue Reading...
BACTERIA
Pseudomonas Bacteria
This study concerns the Pseudomonas type bacterium strains that have, in recent years, become more of a concern for medical professionals. The primary issue is that several different types of the bacteria, especially p Continue Reading...
Neuroscience and Human Development
One of the most noticeable aspects of human beings involves the changes in shape, size, form, and function of the individual from a newly formed fetus to a fully grown adult. As the single most successful organism Continue Reading...
living things are characterized by the following seven characteristics namely mobility, respiration, excretion, sensitivity or response to external stimulus, growth, feeding, and reproduction. Though there may be variations between animal and plant Continue Reading...
Taxa
What is Cnidaria? What is it made up of? Who are the members that belong to his group? Cnidaria is an exclusively aquatic phylum. It is a group that is represented by the members, who are also called 'polyps', and these are sea anemones and co Continue Reading...
The study supports the findings of the recent NF-kB research given that infliximab neutralizes an inflammation-causing protein called tumor necrosis factor alpha. This protein regulates "a common inflammation pathway that just happens to be importan Continue Reading...
In the last fifteen or so years the concerns about vaccinations, and particularly the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccination (MMR) have come to the forefront of societies debates from a limited connection to autism that is most likely assoc Continue Reading...
Human Nature
Book Summary
Jeeves, Malcolm. (Editor) From Cells to Souls -- and Beyond. New York: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004.
According to Michael Steel in the book edited Malcolm Jeeves entitled From Cells to Souls -- and Beyond, the Continue Reading...
Biological applications are being used in the study of mental process and behavior in term of mechanisms of body that is the study of psychology. The thinking that psychological processes are biologically related to each other is the base of relation Continue Reading...
Crime and Deviance
Crimes and increasing criminal activities have become a major concern for the security enforcement agencies. They seek help from technology as well as social and psychological theories to prevent crimes and deal with them. The fi Continue Reading...
In the event of such an epidemic, it is reasonable to assume that public health departments will be pressed to find ways to maintain their services even when employees are ill, normal supply chains are disrupted, and the nation's infrastructure is Continue Reading...
Rethinking the Universe
Conflicts between religion and science are neither new nor novel. In the 1600s, Galileo was hauled before a court and convicted of heresy for saying (and publishing) that the earth revolved around the sun instead of the oppos Continue Reading...
Human Development
There are a number of different concepts that form the foundations of human development in the social environment. One of these is the bio-psycho-social dimensions of development. Essentially, this concept holds that there are biol Continue Reading...
Couse / subject= Drugs Across Cultures. ANT110. Writing Anthropology Essay. Essay question = "Is addiction a cultural category a biological reality?' Needs point view, provide backup resource readings. Also -text citation.
The concept of addiction i Continue Reading...
Criminals -- Born or Made
Since the construction of the first civil society, behavioral rules distinguishing what is acceptable and what is criminal have existed. Even though individuals typically have a concept of conventional moral behavior, crimi Continue Reading...
Genomes and Comparative Genomics
Over the last decade we have achieved rapid strides in the field of genetic engineering. The study of molecular biology has been fairly advanced mainly aided by the unprecedented growth in information technology. Tod Continue Reading...
Animal Proteomics
Proteomics is the study of proteins, and focuses on the role that proteins play in the organism, including how those proteins are structured. Animal proteomics focuses on proteins in animals. It is a very interesting component of Continue Reading...
Bioecological Systems Framework Model: Evaluation
Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological Systems Framework model views a child's development as taking place within the different environmental layers of his or her environment. The child's biology is the prim Continue Reading...