...I. Intro a. What’s the primary use of diuretics in medicine today? a. Control of high blood pressure. Many patients, especially over the age of 50, need blood pressure control and diuretic agents are usually looked to first by physicians. b. Dr. Pillion looks at the kidney as a river system that flows down to the sea. As in many rivers the tributaries that feed into this gradually become wider and have greater capacity, and as the fluid flows down to the tip of the kidney and into the ureter and ultimately into the bladder, the salinity changes. For a river, the NaCl concentration where the river and ocean merge is similar to the human blood stream (around 300, Na in blood is typically ~140, and Cl is ~90-110 - other anions make up the rest of the negative charge). c. Blood pH is usually ~7.40, we call this neutral, when it gets above this we call it basic and when it gets below this we call it acidic. We maintain this pH very aggressively. Saline solution is composed of NaCl dissolved in water – about 0.9% NaCl, so 0.9 grams NaCl per 100 mL water. 1 liter of blood has about 9 grams of NaCl so this is the amount that goes in the saline. d. In a river system, the concentration of NaCl upstream (away from the ocean) is essentially 0, and when it gets down close to the ocean it’s about 0.9%, and in between its mixed – so there’s a gradient. In the kidney, when stuff gets filtered across the glomerulus, the Na concentration there is – i.e. at the very beginning...
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...In many ways, physics stems from ancient Greek philosophy. From Thales' first attempt to characterize matter, to Democritus' deduction that matter ought to reduce to an invariant state, the Ptolemaic astronomy of a crystalline firmament, and Aristotle's book Physics (an early book on physics, which attempted to analyze and define motion from a philosophical point of view), various Greek philosophers advanced their own theories of nature. Physics was known as natural philosophy until the late 18th century. By the 19th century physics was realized as a discipline distinct from philosophy and the other sciences. Physics, as with the rest of science, relies on philosophy of science to give an adequate description of the scientific method.[13] The scientific method employs a priori reasoning as well as a posteriori reasoning and the use of Bayesian inference to measure the validity of a given theory.[14] The development of physics has answered many questions of early philosophers, but has also raised new questions. Study of the philosophical issues surrounding physics, the philosophy of physics, involves issues such as the nature of space and time, determinism, and metaphysical outlooks such as empiricism, naturalism and realism.[15] Many physicists have written about the philosophical implications of their work, for instance Laplace, who championed causal determinism,[16] and Erwin Schrödinger, who wrote on quantum mechanics.[17] The mathematical physicist Roger Penrose has been...
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...A Sense of Urgency Jay Mullens EDL 640 – The Executive Educator Western Illinois University A Sense of Urgency In Kotter’s book, A Sense of Urgency, Kotter argued how effective leaders must impart a sense of urgency in order for their institute to continue to develop in a positive manner. When this attitude is infused throughout the complete association, the opportunity for contentment and false urgency is lessened. Kotter states on page 1 in the opening paragraph, “A sense of urgency is important, of course, complacency is a disaster these days. But complacency is a relative minor issue for us. Better execution of our innovation initiative is our challenge.” If employees can grasp this concept of better execution and realize Kotter’s philosophy, urgency will become the product. The four basic traits that Kotter believes will escalate urgency in an organization are as follows: * Tactic #1 – Bring outside in: A leader cannot rely on insiders alone. On page 63, Kotter explains, “The disconnect between what insiders see, feel, and think, on one the hand, and external opportunities and hazards, on the other, can be astonishing at times – even in organizations that are producing very good short term results.” He states the internal stakeholder must comprehend what is occurring outside of the workplace. It is essential that the leaders of the institute provide information, personally meet with employees at all levels, and be transparent with all files. * Tactic...
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...Jean Genet’s life experiences in 1940’s France affected the content of his book Querelle of Brest. This is immediately evident when you glance at the main character of Querelle of Brest. The immediate comparisons are obvious, both Jean Genet and Querelle were in the French military, both Genet and Querelle are criminals, and both Genet and Querelle have a history of homosexual tendencies. These similarities are just the surface however. Genet uses the characters in Querelle of Brest to express complex ideas about his own self-image. Before delving into these ideas however, one must first know a bit about Jean Genet’s personal history and the environment he was in. Jean Genet was born in Paris, France in 1910. (Pendergast) Some sources claim that Genet’s mother was a prostitute but other sources dispute it, though regardless if she was a prostitute or not, Querelle never knew anything about his father and his mother abandoned him at birth. He was raised by foster parents who were reputedly very loving and supportive. Genet was a good student at school but he often got into trouble due to his often attempts of running away from home and stealing. (New World) Genet’s life of crime began at age ten when he was falsely accused of stealing. At that point Genet decided that he would become the thief that he was accused of being. (imagi-nation) It was a couple years later that Genet discovered that he was a homosexual. It was during these early years when Genet discovered who he...
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...CURRICULUM VITAE Name: NONO Denis Date of Birth: January 14th, 1985 Profession: Social Worker Nationality: Ugandan Contact: +256 (0) 774 261 448, +256 (0) 705 128 879 denisnono2013@gmail.com[->0] Educational Background: Dates |Qualifications Obtained|Institution Attended| 2006 – 2009|Bachelor’s Degree (Hons.) of Arts in Social Work and Community Development, 2nd Class Upper|Kyambogo University, Kampala| 2011|Certificate in Protection of Human Research Participants - Extramural Research |National Institutes of Health-USA| 2009|Certificate in Public Health|Makerere University| 2009|Certificate in Ethics and Integrity|Kyambogo University| 2009|Certificate in Monitoring and Evaluation|Makerere University| 2004 – 2005|Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE)|St Kizito S.S, Bugolobi-Kampala| 2000 – 2003|Uganda Certificate of Education. (UCE)|St Joseph’s College, Layibi-Gulu| 1993 – 1999|Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE)|Bishop Angelo Negri Primary School| Biography Nono Denis, 29 Gulu, Uganda Denis has 3 years of experience in both the non-profit and government organizations in Uganda. Denis grew up in the middle of the 26-year Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) war that claimed thousands of lives in Northern Uganda. Denis joined the U.S Peace Corps in 2011 as a Cross Culture Facilitator representing Northern Uganda where he worked closely with 46 U.S Peace Corps volunteers. He was the only Facilitator selected to develop the Calendar of Training Events (COTE)...
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...The lady or the Tiger Ending plan As the lady came out of the door the princess felt a strange anger in her heart like she had to stop the wedding before it happened. Honey, are you ok because you’re acting weird.” asked the king “Nono i’m fine just a little sick.” said the princess. The princess knew what she had to do she silently sneaked of the stage, out of the arena, and into the house of the lady. when the wedding stopped the man and the lady went to the house they saw it was on fire. The princess quickly ran to the kingdom. The king got there before the princess did and she quickly ran to the door before it closed. When the lady and the man got to the house they were mad. ¨What happend to my house!¨yelled...
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...Analysis “Binge Drinking is good for you” “Binge Drinking is good for you” is a column written by Jeremy Clarkson. The column was first published on September 2nd 2007, in the British newspaper “The Time”. In the column Clarkson attacks the “busybodies” who are dictating how people’s life should be. He especially dislikes how they tackle the drinking problem. What is the different between drinking for fun once in a while and drinking all the time? That is one of the issues Jeremy Clarkson discus in this column. The sender of this column is Jeremy Clarkson, who is also co-host in the TV-program Top Gear. The column was published in The Times which is a daily newspaper. The topic of the text is that Jeremy is really dissatisfied about how the authority, he call them busybodies, are trying to control how people should and shouldn’t live their lives. He mainly uses the example alcohol. The ideal receivers of the text are these busybodies. He wants them to leave the normal people alone and concentrate on people who have a real problem. The actual readers of the column are the readers of The Times, who most likely are grown-ups and also drinks from time to time. Jeremy Clarkson claims that binge drinking is good for you. His data for this claim is that when you are binge drinking you are a lot more relaxed, able to have fun and forget you stressful everyday life, and he believes that that is good for you. Clarkson tells about his experience of drinking on a vacation and he uses...
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...Experiment 4 Short Term Memory I. Objective To determine the capacity and limits of short term memory. II. Definition Short term memory (STM) is a limited-capacity store that can maintain unrehearsed information for about 10-20 seconds.In contrast, information stored in long term memory may last weeks,months or years. However, there is a way that you can maintain information in your short-term store indefinitely.Primarily, by engaging in rehearsal-the process of repetitively verbalizing or thinking about information. Without rehearsal information in short-term memory is lost in 10-20 seconds.(Nairne,2003) III.Abstract The objective of the experiment is to measure the capacity and limits of short-term memory.The experimenter conducted the experiment on 5 participants.Each subject was exposed to each of the stimulus consisting of rows of meaningless syllables.The experimenter let the subjects read the first row of letters in the following list just once then close their eyes and remember the correct sequence.Same procedure was done for the next rows.The experimenter records the outcome of the experiment. IV. Introduction Without rehearsal, information in short term memory is lost in 10-20 seconds (Nairne,2003) The rapid loss was demonstrated in a study by Peterson and Peterson (1959).They measured how long undergraduates could remember three consonants if they couldn't rehearse them.To prevent rehearsal,the Petersons required the students...
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...Varzim, detido pela Varzim Sol, da seguinte forma (utilizando dados de finais de 2010): (1) Gera um volume de negócios anual de cerca de 238.8 milhões de euros; Tendo uma quota de mercado nacional de 64.2% no sector Registaram uma quebra de 5.1 milhões de euros, representando uma descida de 2.1% face ao ano anterior; As receitas geradas pelo Grupo Estoril Sol estão repartidas pelo Jogo, restauração e animação, sendo que o Jogo representa 92.6% do total dos proveitos operacionais consolidados; (1) Relatório de contas de 2010 Descrição do sector O negócio da Estoril Sol SGPS centra-se, essencialmente, na área de exploração de casinos (99.5%)(2). Em Portugal, o negócio dos casinos encontra-se abaixo da média europeia, ocupando o nono lugar num ranking de 20 países europeus. No país, os espaços de jogos existentes pertencem a 4 grupos portugueses (Estoril Sol, Solverde, Amorim Turismo e Pestana)....
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...CASO KONE ANÁLISIS DEL CASO El caso Kone es un caso sobre el lanzamiento del elevador MONOSPACE en el mercado alemán. La economía se encuentra en contracción y el producto ya ha sido lanzado en tres países de Europa teniendo diferentes experiencias en esos mercados. CASO KONE ANÁLISIS DE LA SITUACIÓN EXTERNA REGION ENTORNO ECONOMICO CONSTRUCCION SE DESPLOMA EN LA REGION POCA DIFERENCIACION DE OFERTA DABA LUGAR A EROSION DE PRECIOS Y MARGENES ALEMANIA ENTORNO ECONOMICO CONSRTUCCION EN CRECIMIENTO DESDE 1988 POR LA REUNIFICACIÓN DE LAS ALEMANIAS MERCADO DE NUEVOS ELEVADORES CRECIO DE 8000 EN 1988 A 15.500 EN 1995 (94%) EN 1995 SE DETIENE EL CRECIMIENTO Y VA A CAER UN 15% AL AÑO 2000 MERCADO CARACTERICTICAS: DOMINADO POR LA CONTRUCCION RESIDENCIAL 1995: 74% EN BAJOS EDIFICIOS Y NO CAMBIA EN LOS PROXIMOS 5 AÑOS TIPOS DE ELEVADORES HIDRAULICO: 60% DEL MERCADO DE BAJOS EDIFICIOS CON ENGRANAJES: 40% (DOS TERCERAS PARTES DEL TIPO CARO PU : MAS CARO QUE ph) PARTICIPACION DE MERCADO: NUEVO Y EN SERVICIO 2. SCHINDLER SUIZA : 19,4% - 13,3% 1. OTIS USA: 11,6% - 11,3% THYSSEN ALEMANIA: 12,9% - 12,4% 3. KONE FINLANDIA: 9,2% - 4,9% KONE POCA PARTICIPACIÓN EN SERVICIO MERCADO CARACTERISTICAS: COMPETENCIA GLOBAL Y FUERTES EN MERCADOS DOMÉSTICOS NEGOCIO EN DOS SECTORES: NUEVOS EQUIPOS $9 BILLONES AL AÑO SERVICIOS: $13 BILLONES AL AÑO DEMANDA EN 1996 : CONTINENTE EUROPA 78.000 38% AMERICA 40.000 19% ASIA Y AUSTRALIA 90.000 43% TIPO DE ELEVADOR: ALTURA EDIFICIO BAJO: 78% MEDIO: 16%...
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...When the Second World War had started, the British and American governments made plans to build training bases on a few of the British West Indian islands. Two of these bases were told to be built on New Providence Island, the economic focus of the Bahamas; there was one in Oaks Field known as The Main Field and one in the west end of the island known as Satellite Field. The Project, as it was called, would employ over two thousand Bahamians. When the news about this employment opening was made known, many men from the faraway Bahamian islands flocked to New Providence, joining the already large labour pool that looked forward to the high income, which such foreign projects previously brought. This caused expenses of living to rise drastically. The income offered was not only lower than was expected, but there was an inequality of pay between Americans and Bahamians labourers employed at the same jobs. The men were disappointed but neither management nor government made any real steps to patch up the wage dispute. What started out as simple gears among each other turned out in to two days of confusion. The riot was more than an inaccesible act of venting. On the date of June 1, 1942, just weeks after the Project had begun; laborers from both Main Field and Satellite Field marched to Bay Street. A violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd. The workers had then made loud remarks demanding higher pay waiting for admonishments to return to work. According to (virgilhenrvstorr...
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...STRATEGIC RETAIL PLAN a. Define the Mission To be a leader enterprise in providing different creative rice meals and snacks that are big in size, generous in quantity of flavorings and toppings, healthy and unique, and convenient giving those consumers who don’t tend to pre plan their meals a new meal alternative. b. Conduct External and Internal Analysis • Market factors Internal Factors Our leadership style and the styles of other business management impact organizational culture. The positive or negative nature, level of family-friendliness, effectiveness of communication and value of our employees are cultural implications that result from our leadership approaches. Other business often provides formal structure or direction with mission and vision statements. These will be our forward-looking statements that provide our business for c decisions and activities. The strength of our employees is another crucial internal business factor. Motivated, hard-working and talented workers generally produce better results than unmotivated, less-talented employees. Our business processes and relationships within and between departments and employees also significantly impact business effectiveness and efficiency. External Factors This include socio-economic factors relate to the values, attitudes and concerns of our target customers and their economic abilities to afford our products. The legal, ethical and political environments generally relate to our need to abide by...
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...NURSING LAWS AND REGULATIONS AS THEY REFLECT SOCIETAL ISSUES Early Beliefs, Practices and Care of the sick * Early Filipinos subscribed to superstitious belief and practices in relation to health and sickness * Diseases, their causes and treatment were associated with mysticism and superstitions * Cause of disease was caused by another person (an enemy of witch) or evil spirits * Persons suffering from diseases without any identified cause were believed bewitched by “mangkukulam” * Difficult childbirth were attributed to “nonos” * Evil spirits could be driven away by persons with powers to expel demons * Belief in special Gods of healing: priest-physician, word doctors, herbolarios/herb doctors Early Hospitals during the Spanish Regime – religious orders exerted efforts to care for the sick by building hospitals in different parts of the Philippines: * Hospital Real de Manila San Juan de Dios Hospital * San Lazaro Hospital Hospital de Aguas Santas * Hospital de Indios Prominent personages involved during the Philippine Revolution 1. Josephine Bracken – wife of Jose Rizal installed a field hospital in an estate in Tejeros that provided nursing care to the wounded night and day. 2. Rose Sevilla de Alvaro – converted their house into quanters for Filipino soldiers during the Phil-American War in 1899. 3. Hilaria de Aguinaldo –wife of Emlio Aginaldo organized the Filipino Red Cross. 4. Melchora...
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...Republic of the Philippines] Province of Bohol] Municipality of Getafe] COMPLAINT-AFFIDAVIT I, GENU SOCIAS TORREFIEL, of legal age, fisherman, with postal address at Barangay Nasingin, Getafe, Bohol, after having been duly sworn on oath in accordance with law hereby voluntarily depose and say: 1. That sometime on October 17, 2011or about 4:00 P.M., Monday, October 17, 2011, I was playing basketball in the basketball court of Nasingin, Getafe, Bohol; 3. That upon arrival at the SB COA gate I noticed that there was no sentinel on the said post. I proceeded to the front gate and saw two (2) silhouttes (sentinels) posted at the lobby. Without attracting their attention I walked back to the COA gate which was ajar. I saw the motorcycle of Renato Zamboanga-Process Server of this court parked infront of the Security Office at the basement and saw SG2 Elberto Q. Bautista holding the telephne on his ears staring blankly and tinkering with the keypad of the same. He smelled of liquor /alcoholic breath. 4. That I noticed SG3 Ferdinand Gurtiza together with an unidentified female person later alleged to be the paramour of the former, also inside the security office, having a drinking spree. I smelled stench air inside the security office that I felt nauseating. Upon my cursory look at the floor, I saw two (2) empty bottles of Red horse Beer; and two (2) tin caps of Ginebra San Miguel marked LTDI. The floor is messy, and so is the middle office table...
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...Molluscicidal Potential of Adelfa (Nerium Indicum Mill) On Golden Snails (Pomacea Canaliculata Lamarok) Beatriz Postigo II- Linnaeus Jesus D. Nono Research 1 Teacher Contents Page Title Page i Contents ii Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Background of the Study 1 Statement of the Problem 2 Significance of the Study 2 Scope and Limitations 3 Definition of Terms 4 Chapter 2 Review of Related Literature 5 Chapter 3 Methodology 9 Flow Chart 10 Chapter 1 Introduction Background of the Study Golden Snail is known to its vernacular name Kuhol with a Scientific Name of Pomacea Canaliculata Lamarok. It is a mollusk dominant in humid and subtropical habitat. It was introduced in the Philippines as potential source of food, in 1980 to 1982. However between 1983 and 988, this snail has tremendously increased over the years infested thirty-five (35%) of rice rowing areas in the Philippines. At first, many farmers raised the snails in their backyards. It was thought as a good alternative food source of local communities and additional income too. After its introduction in the Philippines, the miracles of these are found as these are called, and have spread in the most parts of the country because they produce rapidly. These mollusks became...
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