...The Andromeda Strain, a novel by Michael Crichton is science-fiction. The story takes place in Piedmont, Arizona and a lab in Nevada. The story is set in the 1960s. This is the story of a mysterious and deadly bacteria and the group of scientists who are trying to stop it. Jeremy Stone is an an impatient person. He makes other people feel as though they are wasting his time. He is also an intelligent person. He has won a Nobel Prize due to his intelligence. Mark Hall is a heroic person. He prevented an atomic bomb from killing everyone at the lab in Nevada. Charles Burton is the opposite of Jeremy Stone. He is a sloppy and impulsive person. He is also a clumsy person. He often trips over his own shoelaces. Peter Leavitt is a...
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...Passion for work can lead to stress in many cases. In the book, “The Andromeda Strain”, by Michael Crichton, four scientists try to find the source of the destruction caused in Piedmont. Discovering how all the inhabitants in the town of Piedmont died, except for two, was a stressful process that was worked on by the group of scientists. They were to look for the answer through clues and discoveries. Two scientists look around Piedmont with no ideas on where to begin looking for clues. They entered Piedmont worried about the amount of work to be done, “They were painfully aware of how much there was to learn, to do. Some catastrophe had struck this town, and they must discover all they could about it. But they had practically no clues, no points of departure” (Crichton 85-86). It was very stressful arriving into Piedmont, especially when they had “no clues”. They were to find many factors in the town that would contribute to finding a prevention, so the endangerment of other people was in their hands. Stress from events like these may cause or foreshadow anger....
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...Disease on the Screen The movie chosen for this assignment is the “Andromeda Strain”, a 1971 movie directed by Robert Wise. The movie was based on a novel by Michael Crichton. I chose this movie because I wanted to know about the perception of global health over forty years ago. Some of the contemporary diseases like SARS, Avian Flu, and swine flu that threaten global health today were either unheard of or little were known about them forty years ago. Disease or crisis, especially the one presented in this movie was meant to be taken seriously because it had severe ramifications for humanity if left uninvestigated. The organism or crisis presented in this movie had the capacity to kill an entire village except two individuals (an adult and an infant). The specific organism had the propensity to travel beyond the boundary of it original discovery (a little village in New Mexico with a population of 68 people) and perhaps kill the entire of the US and the world. Multiple perspectives were provided. Initial investigators who tried to understand the situation were not sure how the people died. They wondered if the organism that caused death was inhaled or penetrated the skin to kill or even if the people committed suicide. They even wondered if the organism was related to the crushed satellite returning to earth from space. Another perspective is the ability of the Andromeda Strain to mutate with capabilities of melting plastic when the mystery seemed to have been solved. The...
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...The novel “The Andromeda Strain” revolves around a bio-weapon that makes its way to Earth via a crashed military satellite. In the book, a satellite originally intended to gather upper-atmosphere microorganisms for exploitation as a bio-weapon comes crashing down near the town of Piedmont, Arizona, killing all but 2 inhabitants of Piedmont almost instantaneously. The United States Military authorizes protocol Wildfire, which is intended to investigate biological threats with an extraterrestrial origin. They take the 2 survivors of Piedmont (Peter Jackson, a man in his 60’s and Jamie Ridder, an infant), along with the crashed satellite, to a Wildfire laboratory for further examination, where they conclude that the disease arrived on the satellite...
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...Task Number: 081-831-0038 Task Title: TREAT A CASUALTY FOR A HEAT INJURY Conditions: A casualty is suffering from a heat injury. You must treat the casualty for a heat injury. All other more serious injuries have been assessed and treated. You will need water, a thermometer, intravenous (IV) administration set, ringer's lactate or sodium chloride, stethoscope, sphygmomanometer, and a DD Form 1380 (Field Medical Card (FMC)). You are not in a CBRNE environment. Standards: Provide the correct treatment for the heat injury without causing further injury to the casualty. Task Number: 081-831-0039 Task Title: TREAT A CASUALTY FOR A COLD INJURY Conditions: You have a casualty who is having symptoms of cold weather injuries. You must treat the casualty for a cold injury. All other more serious injuries have been assessed and treated. You will need dry clothing or similar material, sterile dressings, a thermometer, and a DD Form 1380 (Field Medical Card (FMC)). You are not in a CBRNE environment. Standards: Provide correct treatment based upon the signs and symptoms of the injury. Task Number: 081-833-0073 Task Title: TREAT A CASUALTY FOR SNAKEBITE Conditions: You have a casualty with a snakebite. All other more serious injuries have been assessed and treated. You will need antiseptic cleaning solution, iodine, water, soap, and a DD Form 1380 (Field Medical Card (FMC)). You are not in a CBRNE environment. Standards: Determine the type of snakebite and...
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...ready to go and play tennis, don’t forget to stay properly hydrated when doing any intense activates such as tennis. There are many hazards and injuries that your body can sustain while playing tennis. The first thing comes to my head is a groin strain, luckily that has never occurred to me while playing. Since you are running the whole time on your feet on a hard surface, it is a possibly to cause a plantar fasciitis. Lastly with the force that your shoulder endures while serving the tennis ball at high speeds, could possibly cause a rotar cuff injury. The possibility of having all these injuries is very likely, and there could be more if you are not careful. Although not all injuries can be prevented like we have discussed in the personal injury discussions, there are some steps you can take to lessen the chance of getting hurt. All of the example of injuries above can easily be prevented by the stretching before, warming up, stretching after, and not being too reckless. Stretching is so important for any sport. Stretching warms up your muscles, and prevents any possible strains. People often forget to stretch after a workout, but it is very beneficial and can keep you playing a sport that you love. Groin Strain: A groin strain is a tear or rupture to any one of the five adductor muscles. We explain the...
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... Apply RICE (Rest, Ice, Compress, Elevate) to reduce swelling. It may also result in other complications eg. fracture, tendon injuries and loss of proprioceptive control. It may take days to a few months to heal with adequate rehabilitation. Meniscus Tear Normally caused by a sudden twisting movement of the knee during footwork resulting in the tear of the meniscus. There will be pain in the joint-line of the knee, mild swelling and unable to flex or extend the leg in full. It may be having accompanying collateral or cruciate ligament injury. Muscle Strain Sudden explosive loading of a muscle resulting in rapid contraction of muscle fibers like a sudden overhead smash. It may result in the disruption of muscle fibers and will cause muscle pain, swelling, bruising and lost of function (depending on severity) eg. Hamstring strain, gastrocnemius strain, adductor strain, quadratus lumborum/ lumbocostal strain. Overuse Badminton...
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...Neck injury is a very serious concern for any athlete who participates in a contact sport. If not avoided, neck injuries can have long term effects and cause problems down the road. Some common injuries related to contact sports are neck sprains and neck strains. Although both of these injuries are caused by sudden or severe stress on the neck, they affect different parts of the neck. A neck sprain is caused by overstretching the ligaments that connect the small bones, or vertebrae, in the neck. A neck strain is when one partially tears the muscles in their neck. Both of these injuries are treated with rest and rehab. A common symptom for both of these injuries is when the neck pain worsens with movement. Neck injuries should be prevented at all costs. Prior to a contact sport, an athlete should always warm-up their neck. Included in the warm up should be stretching. In a sport like rugby where there is no headgear, there are precautionary measures that can be taken. For instance, a rugby player would not tackle head first as a football player would. Rugby players are trained to tackle cheek to cheek. This is a saying to remind players to place the side of their face on or near the opponents hip when performing a tackle. This strategy is becoming more effective as time goes on. Some professional football teams are even having tackling clinics for their players ran by rugby coaches and players. Another more serious problem with neck injury is the possibility of spinal cord injury...
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...BTEC National Sports injuries Unit 18 Assignment 2 Physiological & Psychological responses to injury (p3/P4/M2/D1) Scenario: You have impressed during your work placement at Thornensians rugby club and have been asked to stay for an additional week. The club physiotherapist has suggested that you look to improve your knowledge surrounding the rehabilitation of players returning from injury, paying particular attention to their physiological and psychological responses. Checklist * Introduction * Psychological Responses- anxiety, frustration, isolation, anger, depression, drop in motivation, stress * Physiological Responses- inflammation/swelling, scar tissue/ remodelling, clotting * Strains- Grade 1,2 & 3 * Sprains- Grade 1,2 & 3 * Haematoma- (intra & inter) * What are they? * How does the body respond? * M2 explain? * D2 analyse Introduction In this assignment I will be discussing how to improve my knowledge surrounding the rehabilitation of players returning from injury, paying particular attention to their physiological and psychological responses. Psychological Responses When an athlete faces significant injury, there are a number of predictable emotions and phases he/she might experience. A serious injury often requires surgery, recovery time and physical therapy. After surgery, many athletes often repeat the injury in their mind, feel afraid, feel angry, and wonder "Why did I make that play...
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...student-athletes even after the school nurse and other staff have left for the day. This is when the athletic trainer begins the daily routine of injury rehabilitation, injury evaluations, protective taping, practice preparation, monitoring environmental conditions such as heat and humidity, consulting with physicians, checking the status of weather conditions, conducting concussion follow-up and honoring return-to-play protocols. Coordinating care with teachers and other administrative staff, and student workers to make sure that everyone is on the same page to what is expected and time schedule for treatment and thing of that nature. I would try to detect care for a wide range of injuries that occurs more often. Injuries vary from sprains and strains to more severe, unusual injuries or conditions that require specialized training, recognition, management and treatment. Along the way I would be developing relationships with local physicians and specialists so that I can provide referrals and expediting medical care for injured athletes. As an head athletic trainer I think I’ll be tough cause I would not allow and injured athlete to perform until I feel they are at least 90% ready to get back on the field so I would definitely have to keep up with collecting medical forms, completing injury reports, completing...
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...Volleyball is a non-contact sport that allows players to play as a team and build skills without any physical contact between teams. Even though this is a non-contact sport, injuries happen due to running into others, landing or jumping wrong, and overuse of muscles. Due to this, research has been conducted on the percentage of injuries and the best ways to prevent specific injuries. There are different ways for prevention and some positions are more at risk than others. In volleyball, it is more important to take steps to prevent ankle injuries that overuse or knee injuries. The ankle is most prone to injury and occurs most often, when playing volleyball, because of previous study and the effects the injury has had on playing time. Ankle injuries are 40 percent of acute and overuse injuries while they are 52 percent of all acute injuries in volleyball (Verhagen, et al, 479). Ankle injuries are greater than half of all acute injuries and this means that the ankle should be better prepared to prevent injury for. Out of all acute and overuse injuries, there are 40 percent and are more common than most other overuse or knee injuries. Most injuries are not career threatening or season-ending threatening; although, 15 percent of ankle injuries have influenced volleyball careers in a negative way (Zetou, et al, 131). This is important to know so that one can take measures to prevent injury and understand that some do get hurt and have to postpone or stop their volleyball career. The...
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...CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH MECHANICAL & AEROSPACE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT MAE 361 MATERIALS AND PROPERTIES LABORATORY TORSION TEST Your lab report should be typed with a font of 12 and have the different sections clearly labeled It is important to follow the lab report format given in this document. If the format is not followed 10% of your score will be deducted. When you finish writing this report you should have learned about Torsion Test. A quiz will be given when you turn in your lab report. You should know the following: * What is torsion test and why it is done. * What is angle of twist in elastic range * What is Torque * What is shear stress in the elastic range * What is shear strain in the elastic range. * Torsion in circular and noncircular shafts * What is Shear Modulus of Elasticity * What is polar moment of inertia * Stress Concentrations Your lab report should have the following sections: 1. COVER PAGE Cover page should include the objective of the experiment and the following information Your name & ID number Instructor’s name Course name and title Name of the experiment Date the experiment was performed. Department California State University, Long Beach All of this information should be arranged nicely on the cover page. Remember your cover page is the first thing that introduces you to the reader.(3points) OBJECTIVE Clearly state objectives of the experiment...
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...Inertia Bending of a Connecting Rod Experiment 15th November 2015 Contents Abstract----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 * 1. Introduction-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 1.1 Objective----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 1.2 Background------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 1.3 Theory-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 1.3.1 Bending moment-----------------------------------------------------------------------------2 1.3.2 The Right Angle Assumption--------------------------------------------------------------------------5 2. Apparatus----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6 * 3. Data-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7 * 4. Procedur-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7 * 4.1 Recording-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7 * 4.2 Calibration------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7 5. Results--------------------------------------------------...
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...the physical properties and mechanical properties which depend on type, form, quality and arrangement of its constituents, but they are based on various assumptions so one should with caution, especially if they are used anything more than preliminary design. The paper mainly concentrates on expressions for elastic properties which are as follows: Unidirectional Ply- longitudinal modulus: The Figure 1 clearly shows the orthogonal axes and fiber direction, the fiber directions. The first approximation made is E3= E4. And also for deriving the rules of mixtures the following assumptions are made: Fibers are uniform, parallel and continuous. Perfect bonding exists between fibers and matrix. A longitudinal load produces equal strain in fiber and matrix. Using the above assumptions and approximations two rules of mixtures are derived which are E1 = EfVf + EmVm = EfVf + Em (1- Vf) V12= vfVf+vm+Vm These two rules of mixtures are generally accepted as it goes well with experimental data. Unidirectional Ply- Transverse modulus: In this the rules of mixtures are less reliable than those for longitudinal properties as they are based on assumptions of stress distribution. In this the poisson’s contraction is ignored and the stress is assumed to be the same.which leads to the result of: E2=EfEm/(VfEm+VmEf). But the above rules of mixture has poor...
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...California State University, Long Beach Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department MAE 361: Materials and Properties Laboratory Torsion Test of Metals and Polymers Date: October 29, 2013 Submitted To: Dr. Parvin Shariat Submitted By: Ryan Kim D. Lim - 008142015 Steven Reid - 007777066 Thomas Leininger- 008403601 Marco Evangelista – 007774076 Objective: The objective of this experiment is to determine the shear stress, shear strain, and shear modulus of elasticity of solid cylindrical specimens of steel, brass, aluminum, and a polymer. Procedure: 1. Plug the cord for the machine into the outlet hanging from the ceiling. 2. Zero the drum angle using start, forward/reverse, and speed on machine control. When start is triggered, you must specify the direction of movement, either forward or reverse. There are values on the drum which will indicate when you zero it out. 3. Measure diameter of the sample using a caliper and make sure to measure three different areas, preferably the two ends and the middle for an accurate measurement. Record the average of the three measurements. 4. Mount the specimen in the self tightening chucks of the machine: a. Slide weighing chuck horizontally of the machine and open jaws of the chuck to permit insertion of the specimen. b. Insert the specimen into the loading chuck and then slide the weighing chuck assembly to the right until it is stopped by the specimen ends. Move the weighing chuck around ½ inch away from...
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