Essays Tagged: "mechanisms"

MLK

n Washington. I'm sure King was concerned with his voice production and articulation. Without these mechanisms of speech King would have gone unheard of. However, King had no trouble with these mechan ...

(2 pages) 57 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

The Hormonal Control of Sexual Development

to show how fetal gonads acquire the ability to function as endocrine organs, and (2), to show the mechanisms by which the endocrine secretions modulate male development. The researchers went through ...

(2 pages) 31 0 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Compare and contrast auditory system and optical system

y gets converted back into wave what we perceive as noise. There are a lot of similarities in their mechanisms of how they gather, carry and prepare those informations from sensory neurons. However, t ... he auditory is ready to absorb any noise or sound for twenty-four hours a day. Their structures and mechanisms are similar in a way they gather information, prepare and perceive those information into ...

(2 pages) 133 2 3.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

The evolution theory

Religion, thereby forming a newfaith referred to as 'natural selection'. Throughout time, evolution mechanisms have beendeveloped to account for many barriers facing evolutionists. From Lamarckism dev ... watch a television show such as theDiscovery Channel and constantly be reminded of how evolutionary mechanisms caused therise of life on Earth. Any inquiries questioning evolution are immediately supp ...

(18 pages) 427 1 3.0 Apr/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Paradox, speaks of the danger of mechanisms and improved materials

of it's creations can and have caused the deaths of many individuals. Studies have shown that many mechanisms and improved materials, which make human chores easier, are now known to cause or could p ...

(7 pages) 92 1 4.9 Oct/1994

Subjects: Science Essays > Atmospheric Sciences

How are automatic stabilizers used to combat inflation

today's economy, there are devices present called automatic stabilizers. Automatic stabilizers, are mechanisms which aid in the correction of an economic problem without the interference of anyone or ...

(2 pages) 83 0 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Systems management - definition of a team, teamwork. purpose, stucture, strenghts/weaknesses etc...

e categories in the model are: purposes, structure, relationships, rewards, leadership, and helpful mechanisms. The system in which I am involved is the PreRegistration Department at Blanchard Valley ... When a supervisor shows obvious favoritism, the smooth functioning of the team is disrupted.Helpful MechanismsWeisbord defines helpful mechanisms as "any idea, procedure, policy, technique, or control ...

(9 pages) 802 0 2.5 Oct/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Evolution

ITs all good Very goodEssay on EvolutionThere are many mechanisms that lead to evolutionary change. One of themost important mechanism in evolution is natu ... source of the genetic variation thatserves as raw material for natural selection.Not only are there mechanisms of evolution, but there is also evidence toprove that these mechanisms are valid and have ...

(3 pages) 116 0 4.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

"What is a Human Anyway?"

icial Intelligence terrifies me. It's almost like we are building another race, rather than helpful mechanisms. Once robots are perfected, we are all going to want them as our slaves. The Androids can ...

(4 pages) 182 4 2.6 Nov/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence

An essay on the mechanism of breathing and its control.

An essay on the mechanism of breathing and its controlThe basic mechanisms involved in inspiration and expiration are as follows;1)InspirationThe contraction of the ...

(4 pages) 87 0 4.4 Jan/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

The Kyoto Protocol

uld not be sufficient to achieve its ultimate objective. They therefore included a series of review mechanisms in the Convention to ensure that its commitments could be tightened in the future. The fi ... Per Fluorocarbons (PFCs), and Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6). The Protocol establishes three innovative "mechanisms", known as joint implementation, emissions trading and the clean development mechanism, w ...

(2 pages) 123 0 4.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Exploring a Change in Views on the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics.

he subject.Darwin and Lamarck both believed in evolution, they merely had different ideas about the mechanisms behind the process. Lamarck believed that the variation of animals was caused by their ch ... to stress the heritability of traits is surprising, considering that he was unaware of the specific mechanisms of inheritance.Darwin's tendency to emphasize the role of heritable diversity, while cons ...

(4 pages) 51 0 4.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Serial Killers.

found. This characteristic has obviously been around only since the invention of convenient travel mechanisms. Sixth; serial killers will often over-kill their victims. Even after the victim is dead ...

(10 pages) 151 0 3.7 May/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases

The Effects of Hardiness on Stress Levels.

h in Canada alone killed more than 80, 000 individuals last year. Previous theories have speculated mechanisms for dealing with stress. These vary from purely biological or genetic based theories, to ...

(8 pages) 116 0 4.6 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide

Introduction for thesis: nitrous oxide, nausea, and vomiting.

There are several proposed mechanisms by which nitrous oxide may cause post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV). Some of these ...

(1 pages) 37 0 4.2 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

How police corruption remains a tainted reminder of police brutality in the US.

cessful control, choose the required degree of interference, design adequate control strategies and mechanisms, estimate the resources necessary, determine the success of the techniques used, and moni ... nd nature of corruption provides direction for the selection and utilization of appropriate control mechanisms and identifies problem areas that the control mechanisms should target. Subsequently, it ...

(12 pages) 292 0 4.6 Dec/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

A Critique of a health promotion tool (Breast awareness) and disscussion of health promotion models

is "any planned combination of educational, political, environmental, regulatory, or organisational mechanisms that support actions and conditions of living conductive to the health of individuals, gr ...

(7 pages) 375 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Disease States Involving Disturbances of Haemostasis. (Nursing Project)

Disease States Involving Disturbances of Haemostasis.Normal Human Haemostatic MechanismsHaemostasis is the control of blood loss from the circulation, involving a number of separ ... sel, it constricts with enough intensity to close the vessel. It occurs as the result of 2 separate mechanisms:a) local reflexes of the nervous system.b) biochemical- serotonin and epinephrine are rel ... ia, acidaemia, septicaemia and capillary stasis. It's development is precipitated by 3 pathological mechanisms: endothelial damage, tissue damage and direct invasion of factor x.Pathological Consequen ...

(8 pages) 75 0 4.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Respiration

breathing.Small organisms of the kingdoms Protista and Prokaryotae have no specialized respiratory mechanisms; instead, they rely on the diffusion of oxygen and carbon dioxide across a cell membrane. ... t are distant from the sight of gas exchange. These animals have gills, which auxiliary respiratory mechanisms keep a constant current of fresh water flowing. The gases are diffused through the epithe ...

(2 pages) 46 1 3.4 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

The Benefits of Science and Technology

Man, powered by his imagination and inquisitive character, has wondered he mechanisms of Nature since time infinite. This quest for the truth, the ways in which his surroundin ...

(12 pages) 467 1 4.6 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects