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A Vitamin B12 Overview

Whitaker notes that dementia is due to a deficiency of B-12 (1994). Certain populations, other than the elderly, tend to be def...

Radio Pranks That are Dangerous and/or Illegal

prank acceptable even if it harms others, or is morally wrong, or is illegal? What standards should the radio stations follow? A...

Robert Montoya Vineyards and an Investment Analysis Proposal

One particular article contends that cost of capital can be considered a type of commonsense reality check on the return prospects...

Trading Practices, the Barings Group, and Nick Leeson

As he has been pointed out in much of the financial media that has covered this issue, the derivative instruments that ended up ca...

General Information on Cochlear Implant

hearing loss and is successful in children as young as eighteen months. This is true despite some controversy not only due to cul...

Overview of Laparoscopic Surgery

the body and guide the instrument inserted through the other tubes. With these tiny tools, the surgeon can perform minor -- and in...

Employment Hazards Associated with Being an Electrician

been an electrician for well over thirty years, and has just barely lived to tell about it (Licher, 2000). Of the electricity tha...

Overview of Heart Disease

and strokes. Heart disease became commonplace. The rate of heart disease increased so sharply between the 1940 and 1967 that the W...

Infertility Causes and Treatments

the womb. In total, more than $1 billion (Greenberg, 2003, p. C3) is spent each year on such infertility treatments. With this ne...

Diabetes Mellitus, Type II

in the blood and is not properly transferred to the cells, the body begins to feel weak and fatigued from lack of energy (Type 2 D...

The Elderly and Anemia

elderly, the most common of which include chronic disease, inflammation and blood loss (Williamson et al, nd). Smith reports there...

Which Represents the Best Research Methodology?

between the subject of study and the researcher. Quantitative research studies, in contrast, stress measurement and statistical an...

Two Studies of Information Technology

gratification and for some purchases the inability to see and feel what they are. These different elements are seen as reassuring ...

Case Study on Personal Finance

Therefore, each needs sufficient life insurance initially to pay of their individuals and the joint liabilities. There is also the...

Breast Cancer Chemoprevention

to raloxifene, which, as a "promising agent" (pp. 7-15), falls far behind tamoxifen in any use other than clinical trials. When d...

Description and Occupational Outlook of Computer Programming

In six pages the field of computer programming is examined in terms of its duties, salary, risks, and future occupational outlook....

Clinical Considerations of a Tuberculosis Case Study

which initiates a series of events that will either successful contain the infection or prompt it progression toward active diseas...

AMD and Intel Exchange Rate Exposure

but the risk types that may be hedged are both investments as well as debts, the tools used tend to be forward contracts for the c...

Why True Independence for Central Banks is Impossible

the Bank of England. Therefore, it would be naive to believe that political pressure cannot be brought to bear on the banks policy...

Issues in Research

lack thereof - will most certainly be the cause of an accident (Croal, 2005). II. THREE RESEARCH QUESTIONS The strength of...

Taiwan and the Potential of Asset Backed Securities

studying the models and then comparing the way that Taiwan is developing should then give two valuable results. Firstly an indicat...

IT's Quality Culture

goals" (p. 41). The fact is not news to anyone working in IT project management, but its magnitude may be. At a time when busine...

Professional Employer Organizations

greater spread of risk than the smaller firms that they provide the employees for, this reduces the costs associated with schemes ...

Government Intervention in Private Affairs

yet typically American: it reduces families "to mere aggregations of individuals [but] it also enhances personal autonomy, a value...

Analyzing Lease vs. Buy Decisions

The organization may or may not want to report the item as an asset because it also would have to take on the liability...

Assessing a Capital Project

will want to stay in the restaurant blocking the seats, even where these new customers are meeting the new spending targets if the...

Nursing Leadership Attributes

secretary, should leave the ward when there were fewer than three children on the unit and work a second adult unit as well. He wa...

Oman; Accounting and Financing Considerations

have a capital of RO 10,000 or greater must produce and maintain full accounts. These have to include the production of a day book...

Economics Questions

amount and only having half the rent this not very different if the rent is due; in both scenarios the rent cannot be paid. This i...

The Big Mac Index

comparison illustrate "much, in Big Mac PPP terms, selected currencies were over- or undervalued at the end of" (The Big Mac index...