Essays Tagged: "large amounts"

Diabetes Mellitus

betes Mellitus, disease caused by defective carbohydrate metabolism and characterized by abnormally large amounts of sugar in the blood and urine. Diabetes mellitus affects approximately five percent ... glucose tolerance test in which the amount of glucose in the blood is measured after ingestion of a large amount of the sugar.TreatmentWith adequate treatment most diabetics maintain blood-sugar level ...

(3 pages) 162 0 4.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Influencing Others in Business Environments

ne of society. Some people have become masters at this art, yielding themselves and their companies large amounts of profit. Why is it that some people are better at this than others? This paper will ... know enough about it.Proximics and HapticsWhile persuasiveness varies with distance for speakers of large audiences, there are some general trends for selling and negotiations. Distance between indivi ...

(10 pages) 492 4 4.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - AN ANALYSIS OF CULTS

and other mind control techniques, believes that the end of the world is approaching, and collects large amounts of weaponry in preparation for a massive war. Since most people believe that their rel ...

(5 pages) 192 0 3.7 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Essay on the environment: looks specifically at deforestation issues and how to remedy the situation

ldwide. The wasteful trends of paper use in practice today cause an insatiable need for paper. When large amounts of paper are produced there are a variety of detrimental effects on the environment th ... ning these resources, the environment becomes unbalanced. From there, paper production also adds in large amounts of pollutants to an already unbalanced environment.Fortunately, it is possible to reve ...

(10 pages) 341 1 4.9 Apr/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Forestry

Discuss some of the implications of new techologies for teaching and learning in universities.

ageable pieces, active reaction, feedback and self-pacing. These elements allows the student to use large amounts of information stored in computers which can be broken down, unlike obtaining many tex ...

(1 pages) 72 0 2.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

DIABETES

This disease is caused by defective carbohydrate metabolism. It causes largeamounts of sugar in the blood and urine. It can damage the kidneys, heart, eyes, limbs,and enda ...

(1 pages) 97 0 3.5 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa

ersistent overconcern with the body weight and shape leads to repeat episodes of binging (consuming large amounts of food in a short time) associated with induced vomiting.To support our definitions w ...

(4 pages) 188 0 4.1 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Malaria

tream, the anemia resulting from the destruction of the red blood cells, and the problems caused by large amounts of free hemoglobin released into the circulation after red blood cells burst. Sequenti ...

(2 pages) 105 1 4.2 Apr/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Microbiology

Copper and Molybdenum Deposits in the United States

luable commodities until economic needs demanded the collection and processing of these minerals in large amounts. The most expansive deposits of copper and molybdenum occur in massive low grade ores ... located in Butte, Montana. Over 8 million t of copper has been produced at this mine in addition to large amounts of silver, gold, zinc, manganese, and lead. Vein deposits are associated with replacem ...

(11 pages) 45 0 3.8 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography

Government Intervention on the Internet

During the last decade, our society has become based on the sole ability tomove large amounts of information across great distances quickly. Computerizationhas influenced everyone' ... stion at hand is just how much censorship the government impose. Because theInternet has become the largest source of information in the world, legislativesafeguards are indeed imminent. Explicit mate ...

(5 pages) 149 0 4.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Internet regulation, Government Intervention of the Internet

During the past decade, our society has become based solely on the ability to move large amounts of information across large distances quickly. Computerization has influenced everyone ... versity conducted a study of pornography on the school's computer networks. He put together quite a large picture collection (917,410 images) and he also tracked how often each image had been download ... most of this obscenity is suspected to come from. A total of 80 newsgroups were removed, causing a large disturbance among the student body, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Electronic Fro ...

(10 pages) 627 0 3.3 Jan/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Compensating College Athletes

aches, and even colleges. I believe that NCAA college athletes should be compensated because of the large amounts of revenue they generate for their schools. If they were compensated, it could deter a ... think that NCAA college athletes should be compensated for their performances because they bring in large amounts of money for their schools. If they were compensated, it could deter them from enterin ...

(5 pages) 218 0 3.9 Jan/1997

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Gold mining Techniques

The way to discover large amounts of gold, was to have the perfect mining technique. One of the earliest techniques was ... ent, but later on in 1851, the cradle was introduced to speed up the gold mining process by holding larger amounts of dirt to sift through.The cradle consisted of a wooden box that was on rockers, a m ... driven through the ground and shallow gravel to allow them to dig underground. They soon discovered large quantities of gold beneath the soil, and began to dig deeper. By 1854, shafts were often 48.7m ...

(3 pages) 60 0 4.5 Jun/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geology & Geosciences

Illegal Immigration

iscussion is that many of those who arevehemently opposed to illegal immigration are also opposed tolarge amounts of legal immigration as well. These thinly hiddenagendas mean that often the debate on ... s,tongues and ways of life' (Kennedy p. 64). Current opponents ofmass immigration also point to the large numbers of crimescommitted by immigrants. They are forgetting that the immigrantsof past had s ...

(2 pages) 308 1 4.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Why the North Won the US Civil War

ns and industry.From the onset of war, the Union had obvious advantages. Quite simply,the North had large amounts of just about everything that the South didnot, boasting resources that the Confederac ... of the nation's 31 millioninhabitants residing in the seceding states (Angle 7). The Union alsohad large amounts of land available for growing food crops which servedthe dual purpose of providing foo ...

(11 pages) 398 2 4.6 Jan/1997

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

Global Warming. 5 pages. Causes, effects, and possible solutions, such as: the kyoto treaty, "sinks", and hemp.

es have greatly increased and are continuing to increase at a considerable rate. People have burned large amounts of fossil fuels, sprayed harmful chemicals, and torn down forests; this has all contri ... ane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, purfleurocarbons, and sulfur hexofluoride. To this day, the largest amounts of pollution are being created by the wealthiest countries. The oil, coal, and other ...

(4 pages) 352 0 4.3 May/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

Levi Strauss: polarities and deconstruction

e said was the Western societies and he compares them to steam engines. These were capable of doing large amounts of work as well as keeping order at the same time. These "hot" societies also use stru ...

(5 pages) 117 0 3.6 Jul/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

The Chemical Element Florine

tom and is the most reactive of all the elements. It can only be separated from its compounds using large amounts of electrical energy. Fluorine is so reactive that it can extract oxygen from water an ...

(3 pages) 47 0 4.0 Aug/2002

Subjects: Science Essays

Internal Conbustion Engine

united with oxygen ) within the confining space of the engine itself. This burning process releases large amounts of energy, which are transformed into work through the mechanism of the engine. This t ... ustion engine has become the means of propulsion in the transportation field, with the exception of large ships requiring over 4,000 shaft horsepower ( hp).In stationary applications, size of unit and ...

(12 pages) 105 0 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Internet argrument

During the last decade, our society has become based on the sole ability to move large amounts of information across great distances quickly. Computerization has influenced everyone ... hand is just how much censorship should the government impose. Because the Internet has become the largest source of information in the world, legislative safeguards are indeed important. Explicit ma ...

(6 pages) 99 0 3.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science