Essays Tagged: "absorption"

Agriculture and its impact on ecosystem

ion.This ecosystem is unstable in many aspects:1.Continual removal of soil mineral nutrients due to absorption by crops and weeds. Natural recycling of minerals is hindered as a result of harvesting a ...

(6 pages) 306 1 4.6 Mar/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Pituitary Dwarfism

to those of cretinism, achondroplasia, a disease characterized by short extremities resulting from absorption of cartilaginous tissue during the fetal stage, spinal tuberculosis, and deficiency of th ...

(2 pages) 76 0 5.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Fission or Fusion

nium-235 releases 18.7 million kilowatt-hours as heat. Second, the fission process initiated by the absorption of one neutron in uranium-235 releases about 2.5 neutrons, on the average, from the split ...

(5 pages) 51 0 4.5 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Fungi

FungiFungi is a group of single celled or multicellular organism which obtain their food by the absorption of nutrient from it's surrounding environment. Food is dissolved by the enzymes from whic ... sually multicellular and their cell wall is usually made up of chitin. Fungi's mode of nutrition is absorption and they have no nervous system and locomotion.Most fungi is made up of delicate filament ...

(2 pages) 47 0 3.7 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Dépistage des maladies thyroïdiennes

tion et elles peuvent accélérer le rythme cardiaque. Elles accélèrent l'absorption intestinale des hydrates de carbone tout en augmentant le catabolisme des glucides (glyco ...

(7 pages) 25 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

The Atmospheric Ozone Layer

use. Its existence is crucial for life on earth as we know it, because the ozone layer controls the absorption of a portion of the deadly ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun. UV-A rays, including wavel ...

(10 pages) 97 0 2.8 Apr/1995

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Excretion and Elimination of

a brief review of human excretion,absorption etc. "hit all the points", "nice work"Excretion and Elimination ofToxicants and their Met ...

(4 pages) 39 0 4.5 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Inter-Organismal Transport System in Humans

nutrients. It has extremely numerous functions, including oxygen distribution and attainment, waste absorption, regulation of body temperature, and defense mechanisms against foreign substances. The h ...

(6 pages) 65 0 5.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Anorexia Athletcia - Exercise Obsession syndrome

norexia Athletica (Compulsive Exercising)Sociologists say we live in an age of narcissism, and self-absorption; preoccupied with our looks and bodies, unrealistic expectations become the norm. Both me ...

(14 pages) 190 1 3.7 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Nuclear energy

nium-235 releases 18.7 million kilowatt-hours as heat. Second, the fission process initiated by the absorption of one neutron in uranium-235 releases about 2.5 neutrons, on the average, from the split ...

(1 pages) 45 0 4.2 Apr/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Alcohol and effects on the body.

thy. Alcohol is also absorbed in the stomach. If there is too much in the stomach, the lining slows absorption, and the valve between the stomach and the small intestines close, preventing alcohol fro ...

(3 pages) 76 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

1979 A.P.

t continue to transpire rapidly if its water loss is not made up by replacement from the soil. When absorption of water by the roots fails to keep up with the rate of transpiration, loss of turgor occ ...

(3 pages) 45 0 3.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

"Affluenza"- the disease of spending money.

are; the severe need to spend money on unneeded objects; an obsession with things; greed; and self-absorption. The majority of the American population suffers from this disease called Affluenza. Howe ...

(3 pages) 87 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

How to define terrorism.

ed from its formerly amateur status, this evolving phenomenon has not only captured the substantial absorption of the United States, but increasingly, the rest of the world. It seems ironic that such ...

(6 pages) 271 0 4.4 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Global Warming.

nts? Global Warming is sometimes referred to as the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is the absorption of energy radiated from the Earth's surface by carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmo ...

(2 pages) 114 5 4.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Russell's view of Happiness; Glaucon in Plato's Republic; Personal opinion of happiness

ation with yourself". By avoiding self-scrutiny and meditation of sins and follies, one avoids self-absorption, and can then conquer happiness.The actions of a hedonist and a same moralist are usually ...

(2 pages) 64 0 4.5 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Global Warming: What is Global Warming, Causes of Global Warming, Consequences of Global Climate Change.

enhouse effect and responsible for changes in global climate patterns. The greenhouse effect is the absorption of energy radiated from the Earth's surface by carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmo ... each year. We are also losing temperate forests. The temperate forests of the world account for an absorption rate of 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually. In the temperate forests of Siberia al ...

(6 pages) 665 4 4.9 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Discuss the effects of Francis Spufford's 'The Child that Books Built' on readers of Ian Serrialer's 'The Silver Sword'

ealized that with books he could be transported to a world of solidity. He explores how the child's absorption of the notion of storytelling gives an insight into the realms of child psychology. Embed ...

(3 pages) 17 0 0.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Diabetes mellitus: what it is and what to eat.

nnot utilize glucose, thus creating a high level of glucose in the blood and a low level of glucose absorption by the tissues.Diabetes mellitus is generally divided into two categories:type I called i ...

(2 pages) 95 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Merger anf takeover

ams are made, and it is also an embarrassing source of scandal."(Ross,S.1996)A merger refers to the absorption of one firm by another. The acquiring firm retains its name and its identity, and it acqu ...

(31 pages) 492 0 4.4 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies