...growth. Feet are the perfect host because of the warm, moist and dark environment created when wearing snug or plastic shoes or failing to remove damp socks. Athletes were first associated with this infection because of their regular use of tight- fitting running shoes (KidsHealth), locker rooms, and pools. However, everyone is susceptible to getting this type of skin infection because of increased usage of public pools, public locker rooms and public outdoor facilities, not to mention general exercise practices. Increased exposure to the exfoliated skin fragments of an infected person increases your chances of developing Athlete’s Foot. The Superficial Layers of the Epidermis In order to understand how the Athlete’s Foot fungus grows, we need to understand a few basic anatomical facts about the skin. Again,...
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...indiscriminately killing both pests and their natural predators. Once the predators are gone, the populations come back stronger and more pesticides and insecticides are used. This harms the soil, stealing its natural ingredients. These products are harmful if inhaled by humans, and can be harmful to humans and pets on contact. Green Home saw this as unacceptable. We set out to discover natural ingredients when combined at just the right amount will have the same helpful affects of the synthetic brands with harming pets, birds, children or other creatures. Green Home offers a wide variety of eco friendly pesticides including general insect repellent, wasp and hornet killer, and in home insect control. Our company has been issued several US and foreign patents,...
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...People with advanced HIV infection are vulnerable to infections and malignancies that are called 'opportunistic infections' because they take advantage of the opportunity offered by a weakened immune system. A partial list of the world's most common HIV-related opportunistic infections and diseases includes: Bacterial diseases such as tuberculosis, MAC, bacterial pneumonia and septicaemia (blood poisoning) Protozoal diseases such as toxoplasmosis, microsporidiosis, cryptosporidiosis, isopsoriasis and leishmaniasis Fungal diseases such as PCP, candidiasis, cryptococcosis and penicilliosis Viral diseases such as those caused by cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex and herpes zoster virus HIV-associated malignancies such as Kaposi's sarcoma, lymphoma and squamous cell carcinoma. Different conditions typically occur at different stages of HIV infection. In early HIV disease people can develop tuberculosis, malaria, bacterial pneumonia, herpes zoster, staphylococcal skin infections and septicaemia. These are diseases that people with normal immune systems can also get, but with HIV they occur at a much higher rate. It also takes longer for a person with HIV to recover than it takes for someone with a healthy immune system. When the immune system is very weak due to advanced HIV disease or AIDS, opportunistic infections such as PCP, toxoplasmosis and cryptococcosis develop. Some infections can spread to a number of different organs, which is known as 'disseminated' or 'systemic'...
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...* Interdepartmental Committee On Physical Deterioration * British Committee * Deemed the country unfit to defend itself the eve of the boar war * 38% of the men in Britain were physically unfit to fight * Due to poor diet * Working class boys in the beginning of the 20th century were on average 5 inches shorter than their private (known as public schools) counterparts * During WWII * Children had better teeth * Had a more robust sense of health * Left them in better shape than before the war * Processed meats are regarded as a threat to health * Linked to heart disease, cancer, etc. * Death rates were elevated by the amount of red meat consumed by the American Public * Deemed by the Harvard school of Health * 12% greater (not on exam!) * Each extra serving of red meat that you have a day * Is tied to a 16% increase of dying from a cardiovascular disease * Translates into a 10% increase of dying from cancer * Concluded that red meat is responsible for 1 in 10 deaths * Contamination in Food * Honey is the one food that doesn’t spoil * To some degree everyone suffers from food poisoning at some point * About 25% - 30% of Americans and Canadians will experience food poisoning each year * 76 million Americans get sick each year * 5,000 people a year die from some food born hazard * Center for disease control and...
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...Ergot is a fungus that grows on rye, the staple food of Salem, it causes symptoms like seizures, Muscle Spasms, and delusions. When the doctor examined the girls he concluded that this was bewitchment. This shows that the people of Salem, because of their fear, jumped to the conclusion that is was bewitchment instead of contemplating whether it was just a disease. At first, three people were accused, a caribbean slave (Tituba), a homeless beggar (Sarah Good), and a poor old woman named Sarah Osborn were arrested because the young girls accused the women of bewitching them. In the court case, Osborn and Good denied using witchcraft but the Caribbean slave, wanting to save herself, told them that she was a witch and there were more witches among them. Panic spread throughout the entire town which showed how far people are willing to go to save themselves when they are under the influence of fear. In the beginning of the trails, mostly older women were accused of being witches and only after that were men and children accused. The reason why only older women were accused wasn’t because of stereotype, but because people...
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...Entry of a Subordinate Group My lifelong journal entry of my voyage to America and the struggles that came with the journey. My Journey to the United States was a dream never thought of, it was a tremendous sacrifice for my family. We traveled the Atlantic from Ireland to New England to flee the famine “to a better life as from almost certain death” (Richard T. Schaefer, 2012, pg.126). We were forced to migrate with what little we had; a fungus wiped out the potato crop of Ireland. “Potatoes are particularly central to our lives; it is almost as if starvation had begun (Richard T. Schaefer, 2012, pg.126). Death has been particularly higher among the poor in the more agricultural area. We brought what little we could to new land more than 2 million of us fled to England and some continued to the United States. We left England on a ship so crowded, with conditions so terrible. By the time we arrived to the United States about 3.2 Million people had fled Ireland. We arrived at the New York port, most of us settled in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Illinois, Ohio, and New Jersey. In order to pay for the voyage to the United States my parents became indentured servants for cost of the voyage, followed by 4 years of servitude. As soon as we left the Port of New York we settled at the Port arrival section as poor immigrants with no means of moving on. We were often found begging every street. Later we moved to a neighborhood called a “shanty town”...
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...INTRODUCTION Rationale of the Study Fusarium proliferatum is known as the conidial stage of Giberellafujikuroi, which is an ascomycetous seed-borne fungus that causes bakanae, a disease that influences rice (Nelson, 1994). There are over 100 species of the genus, Fusarium, and they are most common in tropical and subtropical areas. The presence of pathogenic conidia may cause the discoloration in kernels. F. proliferatum is a filamentous fungus or mould found in aerobiologic surveys worldwide. It is a major parasite of rice, sugar cane, sorghum, bean, soybean, and is especially common on maize grains (Pitt, et al. 1994). According to (De Leon and Pandey 1989; King and Scott 1981; Ochor et al. 1987), F. proliferatum causes a disease called Fusarium kernel rot. In parts of the USA and lowlands tropics, this is one of the most important ear diseases and is associated with warm, dry years and insect damaged fields. Czembor, et al. (2015) stated that maize is one of the most important crops in Poland. Diseases caused by Fusarium spp. can affect the yield and grain quality of maize because of contamination with numerous mycotoxins produced by these fungi. Similar results were obtained from 148 samples of maize from the Philippines, and 82 samples of maize from Indonesia. F. proliferatum persisted in high numbers in stored maize from the both countries (Pitt, et al.,1993). (Zainudinet al., 2008b; NurIzzati and Salleh, 2009), stated that F. proliferatum have been isolated...
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...ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY OF STAR ANISE (Illicium verum) TO Candida tropicalis _______________ An Investigatory Project Presented to the Faculty Of Talamban National High School Talamban, Cebu City _______________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Research I _______________ by Queenibel S. Arriesgado Kristine Jane A. Borces Dominique Fatima G. Cabansay Jobelyn B. Cogtas Mary Rose A. Telamo June 2014 APPROVAL SHEET The investigatory project entitled “ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY OF STAR ANISE SEEDS (Illicium verum) to Candida tropicalis”, prepared and submitted by Queenibel S. Arriesgado, Kristine Jane A. Borces, Dominique Fatima G.Cabansay, Jobelyn B. Cogtas, Mary Rose A. Telamo, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Reasearch I, has been examined for acceptance and approval for Oral Examination. RESEARCH ADVISORY COMMITTEE MA. JESSICA N. ABAYON, Ed. D. Chairperson CELIA C. GEPITULAN, M. Ed. JOCELYN C. BUTANAS, M. Ed. Adviser Member CELIA C. GEPITULAN, M. Ed. FARAH C. CENIZA Member Member ------------------------------------------------- PANEL OF EXAMINERS Approved by the Committee of Oral Examination of with a grade...
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... Rumors of a disease that attacked homosexual men spread across the country until the disease proved to spread among heterosexual as well as homosexual partners. On July 27, 1982, the term “Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)” was proposed in Washington. Today, this is a term we all recognize and fear, but many people do not truly understand the real complexity of the issue or how it spreads and develops. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a retrovirus, meaning it is an RNA virus that undergoes a process called “reverse transcriptase.” This process creates a complementary strand for the RNA, together making a double-stranded line of DNA that is then inserted into the host’s genome. However, in the process of creating a complementary strand, the virus often makes small mistakes. These small mistakes are genetic mutation of the virus, leading to countless strains of the same basic virus and diminishing the hope of one overall cure. Misconceptions or ignorance of HIV and its consequences result in dramatic spread of the virus. It is common knowledge that HIV is sexually transmitted, but not quite as commonly understood that it can be spread by blood contact. Many places in the world are paying the price for the ignorance of this knowledge. Ghana, for example, has a rich culture that includes ceremonial shaving knives which are often shared among men. If one man with HIV nicks himself with the knife and another person uses it and also nicks himself, HIV is...
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...can baggage, waste paper, used cotton, dervishes etc are very cheap and available in our country and no materials are required to import from abroad for its cultivation. Moreover, no chemical is necessary for its cultivation, therefore it is completely organic and eco-friendly. Used substrate of mushroom cultivation is one of the best sources of organic matter in the soil. Its cultivation may be “a lifeboat” for survival of the landless people who do not have any source other than their houses and own labor. Its cultivation can transfer as a cottage industry and create a goods opportunity for export. A Mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name “ Mushroom” is the cultivated white button Mushroom. Mushroom designates the entire fungus when in culture or the thallus of species forming the fruiting bodies called Mushrooms. Mushroom production can play an important role in...
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...The Yellow Wallpaper By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman Conflict is the commotion that is created between characters or their ideas. It could also be the mental dilemma a character might face. In the Yellow Wallpaper, a short story written in the early 1890s in California was able to show a range of conflicts. The Yellow Wallpaper is about a woman who has given birth and is suffering from postpartum depression which was not discovered during that time. The short story is told in the first-person narrative from a woman’s perspective which shows conflict that is created between her and her husband, the society and the yellow wallpaper. The narrator’s mental deterioration is shown in the story clearly and this had created conflicts which the narrator had found her own way of resolving. The major conflict in the Yellow Wallpaper is the conflict between the narrator and her husband. Their conflict is mainly caused by the lack of trust that is inflicted upon their relationship “You see, he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do?” This indicates that the writer’s husband whom is also her doctor doesn’t trust his wife and plays a major role in her ‘nervous breakdown’. “John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.” The husband, John is a controlling husband that babies his wife and has isolated her from the outside world by putting her in a room because of her alleged illness. John is manipulative and authoritative...
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...EXISTENTIALISM IN THE STRANGER Albert Camus born in Mondovi, Algeria, in 1913, spent his early years in Algiers. He completed a doctorate in philosophy, then worked at various jobs, establishing his own theatrical company in the 1930s. At the age of 24 Camus became severely ill, a victim of tuberculosis. During four years of recovery, he formulated his existential philosophies and began his writing career. Most of Camus’ works are representative of the philosophy of existentialism. His well-known fictional piece is “The Stranger”. Meursault, the narrator of The Stranger, is an existential anti-hero. Locked into the routine of daily existence, his life is a shapeless void without ideas, preferences, goals, or emotions. Like a robot, Meursault responds to everything automatically, neither feeling nor caring. When he is offered a job transfer to Paris, Meursault says he does not care where he works; yet he does not go because moving would be too much trouble. His mother’s death is met with similar lack of response: he feels no despair or grief. Occasionally, Meursault lacks motivation to do anything, so he spends the day sitting at his bedroom window, smoking cigarettes more out of habit than desire. Meursault utilizes all of the six existential themes: Freedom, Contingency, Individuality, Existence, Reflection, and Nihilism. The first existential theme is freedom. Freedom means that whatever happened prior to now does not influence what your next choice in life will be,...
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...General Analysis of wine industry and Murfatlar Wine Market has some features that customize the overall food market. In this market, competition between different types of products plays an important role, outlining the size of supply and demand. The substitution effect plays an important role in the competition between alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks, as an essential element of this market. Wine market is a mature market whose development is strongly affected by favorable or unfavorable consumer habits and by buying behavior of consumers of wine. In traditional producing countries and consuming wine, wine consumption decreases rapidly while the consumption of quality wine grows slowly. As in other industries, the wine market decline came even in a time when large manufacturers in Romania had finalized extensive investment programs, both in production, as well as a new branding and market positioning. The year 2009 has not provided the prerequisites for such growth in previous years, local manufacturers and big industry estimated that 2010 will not bring any better news. It will be a year of growth, given that consumers will migrate from one manufacturer to another but also from the wine of the medium and high quality to a low one. While announcing the premises years for the wine industry, which is in the process of winning investment, the market crisis has collapsed all levels of local producers in the wine industry. Lack of access to bank loans for further investment...
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...Pneumonia Over the years, many people have found new research on Pneumonia. In Latin, “pnemon” means lungs, “-ia” is the pathological condition, and “-itis” means inflammation. Hippocrates was the first person, on record, to discover pneumonia. He lived during the years of 60BC – 370BC. The “Father or Medicine” was one of the names this Greek physician was considered as in history. Pneumonia descriptions was most accurately given from a Jewish philosopher and physician, who goes by the name Moses ben-Maimom. Even though they were the most accurate, doesn’t mean they are the most current. He lived from 1135AD – 1240AD. Edwin Klebs discovered that bacteria was the cause of pneumonia in 1875. He found this out while studying bacteria in airways of pneumonia patients who died. Klebs was a German-Swiss Pathologist. Bacterial genus Klebsiella is named after him. In 1882 and 1884, Carl Friedländer and Albert Fränkel found the two main causes of Pneumonia, which were Klebsiella pneumoniae and Streptococcus pneumoniae. Through Friedländer’s research, the Gram Stain was introduced and helps identify the two types of bacteria that cause pneumonia. Klebsiella pneumoniae is a respiratory pathogen that causes pneumonia. This bacteria is found most of the time in the gastrointestinal tract and the nasopharnyx. Another common place it is found is on hands of hospital workers. This bacteria is not only in humans, it is everywhere in the ecological environment. It has been correlated worldwide...
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...Introduction Mids-1600s and an English scientist named Robert Hooke made observations. He observed strands of fungi among the specimens of cell his viewed. Robert Hooke in 1665 reported that living things were composed of title boxes or cells. He then devised the compound microscope and illumination system and stated that microbes were a life’s smallest structural units were cells. Then in 1670s, decades after, Dutch merchant named Anton van Leeuwenhoek made careful observations of microscopic organisms. Leeuwenhoek’s microscope that was created by him are composed of one lens. On 1674, Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria, and he called them animalcules. Until his death in 1723, Leeuwenhoek revealed the microscopic world to scientist of the day and is regarded as one of the first to provide accurate descriptions of protozoa, fungi and bacteria. After he died, the microbiology did not develop rapidly because microscopes were rare, but on those years Francesco Redi disputed the theory of spontaneous generation, that microorganism arise from lifeless matter such as beef broth....
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