The muscles connected to the skeleton can also receive signals from the hypothalamus when it is too cold whereby, the muscles respond by shivering. ... The physiological control mechanisms involved in maintaining the core body temperature The physiological control mechanisms that Jamel undergoes can be summarized as, before the race, when Jamel is feeling cold: the hair muscles pull hairs on end and the erect hairs trap air, and the blood flow within the capillaries decreases. ... The heat loss from the blood via the skin aids cools the circulating blood. The opposite happen when it is too co...

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For example, Sickle cell anaemia is a serious inherited blood disorder where red blood cells, develop abnormally. ... The sickle-shaped cells block blood vessels, resulting in tissue and organ damage and episodes of severe pain. ... Children living in cold homes are more than twice as likely to suffer from a variety of respiratory problems than children living in warm homes. One in four adolescents living in cold homes is at risk of multiple Lifestyle factors can also affect health, areas that witness high levels of unemployment often have higher prevalences of people drinking heavily and sm...

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This assessment alone disproves Truman Capote's insinuation that Dick was a heartless, cold-blooded-killer and Perry was a helpless, malleable, but angry little man. ... Society believes that a quick shot to the head is merciful compared to a grueling rape, thus making Dick a heartless, calculating, cold-blooded-killer. ... Society believes that a quick shot to the head is merciful compared to a grueling rape, thus making Dick a heartless, calculating, cold-blooded-killer. ... Society believes that a quick shot to the head is merciful compared to a grueling rape, thus making Dick a heart...

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This system includes your airways, your lungs and the blood vessels and muscles attached to them that work together so you can breathe. ... The respiratory system is made up of airways (your nose, mouth, voice box, windpipe and bronchial tubes) and the lungs and the muscles and blood vessels connected to them. ... When you inhale, the air goes through the bronchi in your lungs to blood vessels that connect to veins and arteries. These veins and arteries carry the blood throughout your body. ... If you can't breathe or can't breathe well, not only will your body not receive enough oxy...

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The Cold War started in the closing moments of World War II in 1945. ... The Cold War left a great impact on Germany, dividing Berlin in two with the Berlin Wall. ... The stress put on the East Berliners after the wall fell left detrimental effects on men's health between the ages of 45 to 65 (Kleinert 1712), thus, causing an increase in ischemic heart disease, which is reduced blood flow to the heart. ... The Cold War was such a rough time for everyone all around the world, however it hit the hardest for the Germans. ...

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Homeotherms can function quite efficiently in both hot and cold environments. ... When poikilotherms are exposed to a cold environment, their internal temperature also falls. ... In the veins, the temprature of the blood rises as it moves away from the heart. In the artery, the temperature of the blood goes down as the blood approaches the heart... The other is facultative diapause, where the creature goes to sleep before the drought or cold weather. ...

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For instance, when afraid their skin felt cold, when embarrassed the subject blushed, etc. ... The psychophysiologic cardiovascular reaction includes, high blood pressure, and heart attacks, also, cancer. ... The psychophysiologic cardiovascular reaction, including heart attacks and excessive heart action, high blood pressure, vascular spasms, and headaches. ... The pschophysiologic hemic and lymphatic reaction includes, disturbances in the blood and lymphatic systems in which emotional factors play a big role. ... In other experiments, people learned to control their heart rhythms and deg...

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Inhalation: Initial symptoms may resemble a common cold. ... Initial signs of nausea, loss of appetite, vomiting, fever are followed by abdominal pain, vomiting of blood, and severe diarrhea. ... (Caution: Do not assume that just because a person has cold or flu symptoms that they have inhalation anthrax.) ... If there are radiologic findings, blood culture is likely to be positive. In advanced cases, the bacterial load might be so high that Gram stain of the blood might be diagnostic. ...

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The critically ill patient can often have massive abnormalities of their blood pressure; an arterial line provides a method of constantly measuring blood pressure. ... Darovic and Franklin (1999) also state that non-invasive blood pressure monitoring techniques are dependant on the blood flow within the body part used for the pressure measurement. ... However, Mallet and Dougherty (2001) state that it may be necessary to remove the cannula if pulses are absent, pallor, cyanosis and coldness are present this may indicate occlusion. ... Arterial Blood Gas Sampling and Analysis. Arterial blo...

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Murder is such an emotional, irrational, cold-blooded act that these rational conclusions we expect murderers to be able to come to regarding their own lives are completely out of reach. ... Sean was known to carry a Satanic Bible to class, drink his own blood, and using his blood, he once wrote, "I renounce God. ... Six months later, he crept into his parent's room and murdered them both in cold blood. ...

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Immunosuppression The alograph should be preserved until the implantation, and that is to replace the donor's blood in the pancreatic tissue with and ice-cold organ storage solutions, such as UW (ViaSpan), Histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate (HTK) or Custodial HTK. ... The pancreas is evaluated for parenchymal echogenicity, location and orientation Measurements of the size of the graft should be made to establish a baseline for detection of enlargement that is associated with acute rejection and acute pancreatitis Search for peripancreatic fluid collections Arterial and venous blood flo...

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They also were taught to report any cold, pink, and painful foot, as it may be an indication of severe ischemia which requires urgent vascular care. ... If proper nursing teachings are not done on diabetic patients on foot care, eye care and proper glycemic and blood pressure control, many diabetics would lose their feet due to neuropathy, and possible become blind as a result of retinopathy. ... It is necessary for nurses to constantly teach diabetic patients proper glycemic blood pressure control. Also, it is necessary for preventive measures such as blood glucose and blood pressure screeni...

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The procedure was done in the most intimidating and frightful manner that there is no doubt that a mass amount of blood was shed. ... To an average Westerner, the acts of human sacrifice were barbaric, however, for the Aztecs it was a religious belief to worship the shedding of human blood as a very unique form of culture and satisfaction. ... People tend to find it weird how some would put so much effort into treating someone in a royal manner when all they're going to end up doing is killing them in a cold blooded manner. ... The Aztecs believed that they owed a "blood debt to the ...

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The red imagery represents pain, hardship and blood in the old communist country where they had to "mock salute" to red banners, being bound to the "shackles" and was tired with "sunken eyes". ... They huddle together closely, in uncertainty as they sheltered from the damp and cold, expressed by "the silence, the cold", "upturned collars", and "children by their side". ...

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The United States had already developed plans to invade Japan naming the plans, "Operation Downfall," and the execution of this plan had an estimate of 24,000 Japanese and American Soldiers dying every day and it is unimaginable how many civilian causalities would have been involved also, resulting in one the biggest blood bath in American history. ... "In the first two decades of the Cold War, there were a number of occasions during which a form of atomic diplomacy was employed by either side of the conflict. ... Although there were many threats made during, another atomic bom...

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Due to the savagery of war, Paul has immediately lost his humanitarian characteristics, and instead has transformed into a cold, merciless shell of the innocent boy he once was. ... Paul's cold-hearted and unrelentless tone portrays how cruel and inhumane he has become. ... However, Paul has seen and committed too many barbarous and cold-blooded acts that he feels disconnected from the "foreign world" that is modern society. ...

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Proctor was shown as the disinterested party, while Abigail fought desperately for his attention, even doing such things as drinking animal blood in order to kill off his wife and effectively remove the competition (Miller 18). ... The depiction of Abigail Williams in the play leads viewers to question her morality and character, allowing the play to paint her as a jealous and vindictive character out for cold blooded revenge. ...

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Of the many influential leaders whose dictatorship soaked in blood no only their countries but the world it self, Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini share such ruthlessness and hideous crimes in the annals of history. ... Many of his soldiers died due to his orders to continue through such cold temperatures. ... Thus, Hitler's manipulations, criminal acts and his shed of blood (holocaust) over his country and over the world made him the most despicable dictator in history. ...

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Manpower The German Army in the east drowned in "vast reservoirs of Soviet blood." ... Data shows the cold was not always as extreme as Hitler claimed, and in some regions "German forces were hardly affected" ; the weather was "only one factor of many." The "remarkable revival of Soviet manpower" was more important to the defense of Moscow than the cold. ... Stalin told Truman that the war was won with, "our blood, your steel." ...

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British and American forces have now been stationed globally and on several occasions once again "spilled the same blood in the same mud". Conflicts in both Korea and Vietnam have seen both American and British military powers fighting for the common cause of Containment fearing the overall Domino Effect of Communism that was ever prevalent in the Cold War. ... The treaty was a major response by the west in order to combar the cold war against the aggressive threat of a continued mobilized Soviet military presence in Eastern Europe. ...

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The novel appears to take place during winter, "the two houses at the end of the street have closed their shutters against the cold" (Mahfouz 3), and when Abbas left for the British army "the air was cold, and moist"(Mahfouz 111), which gives us a visual imagery of the lack of sun, which is a synonym of the lack of light, relating to the hopelessness of the alley. ... The word "mixing" (Mahfouz 281) is a visual imagery of Hamida's makeup mixing with the blood caused by the glass breaking on her face, symbolizing the mixture of both her old Arab roots, and her...

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Nevertheless, AWA excludes 95% of animals used in research; mice, rats, farm animals, and cold blooded animals, like fish and reptiles. ... To mimic infection, scientist add bacteria or any other type of illness they want to infect the cell with, and as a responsive reaction they also add white blood cells, just like the body would normally do when fighting against an external disease. ...

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Some viral STDs, especially AIDS, may be transmitted by blood contact such as open wounds, between people who share infected needles or received through a transfusion of infected blood. ... Some cases, however, result from genital infections with HSV type 1, a usual cause of cold sores. ...

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Most migration occurs laterally because weather variance is less dramatic and in the short time of 1,000 years (50 generations), cultures would not have been able to adapt from the cold climate to the temperate regions so quickly. ... Although, these theories do not completely close the door on the Clovis model, the growing evidence in linguistics, Blood grouping, and gene pools are helping the new theories become more widely accepted. ... American Indians have an O blood type frequency nearing 100 percent, and yet they probably descend from an Aian population with a group around 50 perce...

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They show the fraught life of Bertha Mason, the cold-hearted religion of St. ... For example, Jane waits ten years to become a 'rebel slave' and react to her treatment by Mrs Reed; Bertha is held for ten years in the attic before she 'breaks out, now in fire and now in blood'. ...

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