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    The main reason that skin grafts are conducted is to prevent infection from growing and spreading throughout the body. In reality, skin grafts increase the patient’s possibility of acquiring an infection. The procedure takes a large area of skin from one side of the body, and creates another open wound. As a result of this surgery, the patient has two wound sites, which makes him twice as likely to get an infection. Moreover, the body is put under a tremendous amount of stress because it is trying

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    guilt. 2) Changing our perceptions of reality. This includes any technique whereby we seek to change our mental perspectives, our attitudes, our beliefs and our emotional reactions to the events that happen to us. Many of these techniques are discussed in depth in Section 3 and they include: cognitive restructuring, voice dialogue therapy, inner child work, learning not to take things personally, affirmations and self-parenting. Changing our perceptions of reality is best illustrated by the proverbial

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    Vaccinations are a substance given to patients that provides acquired immunity to a specific disease. They contain either a live weakened part of the virus or an inactive form created from a dead version of the viruses, causing the body to produce antibodies that will attack the virus if the body later comes into contact with the disease. Thus, a person can reduce the severity of the disease or eliminate the contraction of the disease completely. However, vaccinations have become a controversial

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    Cancer Therapy Cancer is one of the more prevalent diseases in our world today. It’s a horrifying diagnosis that affects not only the patient, but their families and loved ones as well. As nurses, we deal head on with this diagnoses on a daily basis. Holding a strong front becomes hard, when inside, you’re crumbling while looking at the sweet 4 year old girl, taking her last breath in the face of her leukemia with a smile on her face. Hopefully one day, we won’t have to endure the pain and heartbreak

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    Light Without Darkness: The Neolithic Revolution The human necessity of nourishment to aid life has been the cornerstone of human advancement since it’s inception. Common misconceptions perceive the earliest hominoids as hunters and farmers, while in reality they were scavengers. The Neolithic Revolution, which occurred around 10000 B.C., was a decisive point in the progression of man. The ability to domesticate plants and animals forever changed the previous nomadic lifestyle into a agrarian way of life

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    encephalitis is named by Josep Dalmau and his colleagues in 2007. Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis is a disease that occurs when antibodies that are produced by the body’s won immune system attack NMDA receptors of the brain. NMDA receptors are proteins that control the functions in the brain for critical judgement, perception of reality, human interaction, memory, and things like breathing and swallowing. It is an acute form of brain inflammation. Antibodies are important to protect the body’s defense system

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    outside our conscious awareness. Whenever we are asleep, we may think our brains turns off but it is always still active because of the biological rhythm that is has. Having enough sleep helps us humans, and living things in general, ameliorate our immune system and gives our neurons time to repair themselves. Another benefit of sleeping enough is the fact that it helps rebuild the memories that may have faded, it reactivates them. Sleeping boosts your creativity. In fact, people who sleep on a task

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    complicated problems be solved from a small device. That you would have a hand held computer that is millions of times faster than what it took NASA to send the first man to set on the moon. It would be absurd but soon science fiction became our reality and we don’t even think about it. We are at a similar point today with genetic engineering. II. Statement of

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    A basic understanding of vaccines, and why we vaccinate in the first place, is important. We give our pets vaccinations to protect against infectious disease. When we give a vaccine, it stimulates our pet's immune system to produce "Opposite Invaders" or antibodies. The new antibody that is produced is just for that particular virus, so if your dog or cat is exposed to the real virus at a later date, she will be able to respond quickly and produce antibodies

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    both a rule of grammar and at the same time a description of reality. This approach leaves the religious language game forever defining its own rules. The question is then prompted that if religious language does not get beyond itself to explore reality, how did it get started at all. Felicity McCutcheon drew some parallels between games and language. This led some to the view that each language games is immune from charges of incoherence and irrationality because it has

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