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Male v. Female Victims of Eating Disorders

"1 teenage girl in 8, and 4% of teenage boys had serious symptoms of anorexia nervosa...

Physical and Physiological Aspects of Tourette's Syndrome

characteristics to be interlaced with short bursts of action potentials (Anthony and Thibodeau, 1983). Because Tourettes Syndrome...

Social Concerns in Latin American Colonial Times

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

Arguing for an Adopted Child's Right to Know Biological Parentage

is to address these two aspects of biological identity as they relate to the human right to know their biological origin. S...

Genetic Science and Self Concept

could be toying with the emotions of another future human being? There is also the question of what type of social stigma would b...

Alcoholism and Children of Alcoholics

of alcoholics. To prove that children of alcoholics are more likely to physiologically be alcoholic themselves provides added supp...

Progress of Fat and Genetic Predisposition to Obesity

health. There are morbidly obese people who appear to enjoy being the way they are and actively seek to maintain their stat...

Debate on Gun Control

of State John R. Bolton, who led the US delegation to the 2001 conference, asserted that, given a choice between following the wil...

21st Century and Technology

long way in the past few decades. While once a pie in the sky idea, many women have birthed babies that have not belonged to them....

The Genetic Basis of Anxiety Disorders

Bouton, Mineka and Barlow (2001, 4) comment: "Anxiety, an anticipatory emotional state that functions to...

Education and its Controversies

TEACHER SHORTAGES: SALARIES Teachers are among the most highly educated yet poorly paid group of workers--teachers are often gros...

Commodity Chain Description of Corn

had been spotted through much of the corn belt but was replaced by excellent growing conditions (2000). In 2000, there were 79,5...

Genetic Engineering and Agriculture

is to determine whether they can use the plant to synthesize a protein that may have immunological properties for human beings. C...

Crime, Alcohol, and Drugs

In twenty pages crime and the relationships both genetic and environmental that exist between its commission and abusing substance...

Curse or Opportunity in Terms of an Alzheimer's Test

carry the gene. Therefore, one might be of the notion that as long as the vast majority favors and accepts the associated compone...

Social Responsibility and Libertarians

Libertarianism and social responsibility are two major theories of political organization in the world today. Libertarians stress ...

SYNOPSIS/REWRITES: WERTHER & CHANDLER AND KOTLER & LEE

ExxonMobil and Ford. But the authors are balanced - there is also an anti-CSR discussion, pointing out that stakeholders ne...

Mass Extinction: Comparison of Flora and Fauna

may be severely affected by this extinction period as early as 2100. PBS reports that, while scientists like David Jablonski belie...

Gonadal Dysgenesis

Synopsis Genetic abnormalities often have distinct...

Need for Advanced Directives

is considerable "uncertainty, confusion and a general lack of knowledge" concerning advance directives (Payne, 2007, p. 545). Th...

The Ethics of Genetic Testing

no matter what the results are, they would not terminate the pregnancy. Hence, this debate in part has to do with the consequences...

The Pros and Cons of Genetic Engineering

fictional, of course, yet it brings home some very interesting points regarding genetic engineering. First, agriculture has turne...

How Cultures Play A Role Where Emotions Are Concerned

only one child per family --otherwise leaving the parents to face fines, taxes and the absence of governmental support -- has been...

Developing a Genetic Vaccine for Malaria

pathogen"; that is, they have to be able to counter the disease if it mutates (Ivory and Chadee, 2004). As noted above, its been d...

Antisocial Behavior in Children

behaviors. MAOA is the structural gene for production of this enzyme. Four other chemicals, epinephrine, norepinephrine, serotonin...

Addressing Gun Safety

practitioners to alert their clients to this possibility (Christoffel, 2007, p. 626). Impact of the problem on the client An onl...

Social Change Theories

homeless people happened after they had been homeless for a while? Would that change the publics perception of the homeless? ONeil...

CASE STUDY ANALYSIS: DANVILLE AIRLINES

The problem with genetic testing is that it only reveals a genetic predisposition for a particular disease. David Reigers father h...

The Impacts of Down Syndrome

Introduction Down syndrome results from a chromosomal anomaly. Instead of a child having the normal twenty chromosomes the...

An Overview of Huntington's Disease

2008, 436). There is no cure for Huntingtons. Genetics The gene for the disease is found on the fourth chromosome (Collins, 19...