The Kawasaki disease

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Kawasaki disease is an intense systemic paediatric vasculitis disease that is seen commonly in childhood. Kawasaki disease is one of the most common heart diseases. It is the inflammatory disorder but the aetiology of Kawasasaki disease is unknown. It first appeared in 1967 by report of Tomisaku Kawasaki who was a Japanese paediatrician. He also called Kawasaki disease as mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome. There is no diagnostic ...

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A burn injuries

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Interpretation Exercise Burn injuries are most often caused when the skin comes in direct contact with a naked flame or a hot surface. Scalding can occur when there is contact with a hot liquid. There are several other types of burns such as chemical, caused by strong acids or bases, and radiation, the most commonly known example being sunburn from UV light. Burns are classified by degree, ...

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Chile earthquake

23 Mar 2015

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Nature of the earthquake Origin and explanation of the strength The strength of the earthquake on 27 February 2010 was 8.8 on Richter's scale. The quake hit 325 kilometers southwest of the capital, Santiago, at a depth of 35 kilometers at 3:34 a.m., the U.S. Geological Survey reported that. The epicenter was just 115 kilometers from Concepcion, Chile's second-largest city, where more than 200.000 people live ...

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Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa)

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Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (abbreviated as ELISA), is a kind of immunoassay technique to detect the presence of a specific antibody or antigen in the test samples. This method principally make use of both immunological reaction (the antibody-antigen reaction) to detect the present of specific antibody or antigen) and biochemical reaction (the enzyme substrate reaction) to produce a visible signal for both qualitative and quantitative measurement. The ELISA ...

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The use of Microwave Remote Sensing

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INTRODUCTION Microwave remote sensing at wavelengths ranging from 1 cm to 1 m has gained a lot of importance over the plast decade for a wide range of scientific applications with the availability of active radar imaging systems. Its potential in spatial applications use has been scientifically established in various sectors like forestry, agriculture, land use and land cover, geology and hydrology. A variety of applications have ...

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Onze genetische identiteit

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Inleiding 'In de laatste tien á vijftien jaar hebben de moleculaire biologie, de genetica en genomics onderzoeken ervoor gezorgd dat het mogelijk is om inzicht te krijgen in het menselijk genoom' (Fujimura et al, p. 644). Di was een enorme doorbraak voor de wetenschap. Aan de hand van deze kennis kon men belangrijke onderzoeken uitvoeren. Onder andere onderzoeken met betrekking op de geneeskunde. Zo probeerde onderzoekers 'genen ...

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Medical Advances

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Three of the most significant medical advances of the last two centuries are sanitation, vaccination, and antibiotics. Each of these advances has engendered enormous positive social and economic impacts in developed societies. Sanitation has successfully impeded pathogenic growth in human living spaces, vaccines have protected humans from historically prolific diseases such as smallpox, and antibiotics have also saved countless human lives through daily sanitation and disease ...

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Guyana; solid waste management

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1.0 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background As a developing country, Guyana is faced with the basic problem of solid waste management. According to Gonzalez (2009)[1] “solid waste” refers to all putrescible and non putrescible solid and semisolid wastes, including but not limited to garbage, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, swill, demolition and construction wastes, abandoned vehicles or parts thereof, and discarded commodities. This includes all liquid, solid and ...

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Lowering the Freezing Point of Water

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It is common knowledge that the freezing point of pure water is at 0 degrees centigrade or 32 degrees ferinheight. However, is it possible to keep water in its liquid state below that freezing point? It is indeed possible, and people have been using this principle for centuries! Traveling back to the 1600s we find King Charles I of England dining with his lords and ladies. ...

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The risk factors for breast cancer

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INTRODUCTION Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women in Malaysia with an overall age-standardized incidence (ASR) of 46.2 per 100,000 population [1]. The incidence of breast cancer differs among Malaysia states; it is the most common cancer among women in Penang, followed by Sabah [2]. However, there is no previous study on risk factors associated done in Penang before. Determining the risk factors ...

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Methods in Carrying Out A Research Project

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Part one of this module was to highlight the research methods needed to carry out a Work Based Research Project. The research used aimed to demonstrate the different types of research methods available, evaluate them and determine the appropriate form of method to use that was relevant to the chosen topic. In carrying out this research procedure various existing literature that gives a clear insight into this ...

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The issues surrounding Bisphenol A Chemical

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Bisphenol A, commonly known as BPA, is a chemical used to construct polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins (Antonia M). It has been used in plastic products for over 40 years. Products including water and baby bottles, can linings, and dental sealants have been found to contain harmful traces of BPA (Frederick, 2005). Only at very high exposures is the compound toxic, according to The American Chemistry Council ...

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Attention On Commercial E Waste In Putrajaya An Environmental Sciences Essay

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According to the definition by Department of Environment Malaysia, 2007, e-waste is defined as waste from the assembly of electrical or electronic appliances that consist of components such as accumulators, mercury-switches, glass from cathode-ray tubes and other activated glass or polychlorinated biphenyl-capacitors, or contaminated with cadmium, mercury, lead, nickel, chromium, copper, lithium, silver, manganese or polychlorinated biphenyl. In Malaysia, e-waste is categorized as scheduled waste under the ...

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Raman spectroscopy

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Introduction and underlying Theory Raman spectroscopy is a spectroscopic technique named after and discovered by Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman in 1928. Sir Raman published work in 1922 on the “The Molecular Diffraction of Light” which was the initial investigation which ultimately led to the discovery of Raman Spectroscopy (1). Along with associates Sir Raman investigated this newly discovered spectroscopy and was the first Asian person to be ...

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Discussing Causes Of Climate Change An Environmental Sciences Essay

23 Mar 2015

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Climate has a great influence over our lives. All our normal routine actions are according to the climate we are living in. However the climate has been changing from past few decades, which in turn is changing our living patterns and thus, has made this world a more puzzled place to live in. In this essay the causes of climate change would be discussed, which are divided ...

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