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Evolution and Adaptation, 2005.
Discusses various controversial issues in environmental science in schools.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 7 sources, $ 26.95
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This essay is an example of how a environmental science teacher would respond to someone who says that: a. he or she does not believe in biological evolution because it is just a theory; and b. we should not worry about air pollution because through natural selection, the human species will develop lungs that can detoxify pollutants. The essay also gives an overview of the theory of evolution and the process of the scientific method.
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"Today some conservative church groups argue that evolution is 'just a theory' and that the 'theory' that God created everything in just seven days is just as valid. They argue that since evolution is only a theory it cannot be proven and hence it is a false theory. However what they often fail to state is that evolution is indeed a theory that is well supported by facts. Furthermore, in order to examine evolution from a scientific point of view one must be aware of the basic methods and principles of science. We need to define 'theory'. The scientific method holds that nothing can be proven with certainty and that most of our scientific knowledge is actually 'theories'. In science the meaning of the word 'theory' is very different from the meaning of 'theory' in non-scientific language."
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Adaptation in Obstetrics, 2007.
An in-depth look at the implications of adaptation in maternal care.
2,498 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 75.95
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The paper explores the different facets of adaptation from the perspective of the expectant mother, environment and the nurse. The paper provides a detailed definition of adaptation and explains that adaptation eventually results in the net improvement of the maternal health of women and their ability to adjust more readily to the challenges of pregnancy. The paper provides case studies that illustrate the role of adaptation in overall maternal health.
Outline:
Concept Overview
Definition
Antecedents
Defining characteristics
Consequences
Contrary Case
Related Case
Borderline Case
Social Context
Underlying Anxiety
Practical Results
Results in Language
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"Adaptation can be thought of generally as a transition from a previous state to a more suitable state. It often means dealing with a loss of many liberties along with the security of these liberties as well while simultaneously taking up new and unfamiliar responsibilities. In health care, it is a complex concept which can encompass many elements: the health care provider, the hospital or patient environment, the patient's circle of family and friends or most especially, the patient in any number of combinations. This is an important concept to analyze because of the implications in maternal care. This is often a time for life-changing, permanent adjustments in lifestyle, career and personal goals, relationships with one's partner, immediate family and household members (Williams, 1995). By delving into what the concept of adaptation encompasses, this paper endeavors to enable maternal patients and their families to faster embrace the inevitable role of either becoming a parent, transition from being a daughter to a mother, or from parent to grandparent."
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The Evolution of Immunity in Vertebrates, 2002.
An analysis of the development and evolution of vertebrates and the consequent changes in the immune response.
2,120 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 66.95
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This paper discusses the evolutionary development of vertebrates and the corresponding development of the adaptive immune system. It argues that the adaptive immune response is superior to the innate response, thereby allowing for the evolution of larger and more complex species, specifically, the vertebrates.
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"Survival is at once both the most primitive and the most vital aim of every organism that has ever existed. Unfortunately, the survival of any organism depends most heavily on its ability to interact with the surrounding environment in such essential tasks as metabolism and respiration. For inherent within these necessary interactions is the risk of the compromise of that organism?s integrity and separation from the surrounding atmosphere. The development by living beings of immunological protection against this bodily invasion by foreign matter and additional living beings was perhaps the single greatest accomplishment in the evolution of life on earth. For such immunity, grounded in an organism?s ability to distinguish between self and non-self, affords an adaptive advantage unparalleled in any other system. With time and evolution, this immunological protection grew, and certainly continues to grow, increasingly more complex, resulting in the production of organisms ever more fit to prudently interact with the environment around them. The ultimate consequence is the establishment of species that, due to their superior level of adaptation through superior immunological protection, survive better in their given environment. Evidence in favor of this theory of immunological evolution is most apparent in the evolution of the somewhat primitive invertebrates into the more highly developed vertebrates. Aside from being more complex in terms of anatomy, the vertebrates exhibit vastly superior immunological protection from the surrounding environment; this protection is the very basis for the considerable anatomical development of vertebrates over invertebrates."
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?Adaptation, Culture Scale and the Environmental Crisis?, 2002.
A summary of the article ?Adaptation, Culture Scale, and the Environmental Crisis? by M.Sahlins and E.R Service which gives an insight into how the scale of a culture dictates how that culture will adapt to its environment.
750 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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The paper discusses the article ?Adaptation, Culture Scale, and the Environmental Crisis? by M.Sahlins & E.R Service. It looks at the interaction of culture and the environment and the role that this interaction plays in damaging the environment and depleting resources. It also examines the character and scope of the world?s current environmental crisis.
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"This quote raises some of the most salient points that are brought out further in the article. First, it notes that the scale of the culture and the concentration of social power have very little to do with the longevity of a civilization on an evolutionary timescale. Second, the quote brings to mind the scale of resource depletion and environmental degradation that accompany large and powerful cultures. Simply put, large, powerful cultures have often depleted their natural resources, and polluted their environment to the extent that their civilization has collapsed."
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Roy?s Adaptation Nursing Model, 2002.
This paper discusses the Adaptation Nursing Model developed by Sister Callista Roy.
1,630 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper concludes that the Adaptation Nursing Model can touch the innermost only of the healthy and curably ill patients.
Table of Contents
The Life History of Sister Callista Roy
A Clinical Scenario
The Nursing Process According to the Roy Adaptation Model
Strengths and Weaknesses
Conclusions
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"Her Adaptation Model had spread far and wide by 1981 and she and her colleagues started giving consultations to other schools on it. Many schools adapted it and soon she was a speaker through the Continent and in other countries. Her other ensuing engagements include a two-year postdoctoral program in Neuroscience Nursing at the University of California at San Francisco where she developed the concept of a holistic person. (Office of the Nurse Theorist); teaching at the graduate level at the same University and at Boston College.; co-chairing Knowledge Conferences hosted by the Boston College School of Nursing from 1996 to 1998 and from 2000 to 2001; and progressively expanding and upgrading her Model. "
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Roy's Adaptation Model and Grief, 2006.
A look at how the Roy's adaptation model applies to the grieving process.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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Dying of an illness such as cancer is a prolonged and progressive process. The progression is one of living with cancer to dying with cancer (Chapman & Pepler, 1998). Grief is not merely centered on death but is also anticipatory since it also takes place because of impending losses as well as changes in the patient abilities. Grief is a matter of adaptation to various losses and is reflected through a variety of changes which include behavioral, cognitive, and spiritual changes. This paper explains how the Roy adaptation model can be applied to the grieving process involved with a terminal illness since the persons affected are in constant interaction with a changing environment.
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Sensory Adaptation, 2008.
An examination of sensory adaptation.
780 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper discusses sensory adaption, in which the nerves begin to cease to send as much information to the brain after a prolonged exposure to stimuli.That paper points out that this occurs in all five senses of smell, taste, touch, hearing, and sight. The paper holds that adaptation is a normal part of sensation in the human body, with all sensing receptors of the body sending messages to the areas of the brain that process and deal with it, the occipital area and the thalamus. The paper concludes that, when the senses become overloaded, the sections of the brain, as well as the nerves, adapt to the increased intense stimuli by shutting it off to some extent, and in some cases altogether, until a change in sensation occurs.
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"The nose senses odors by picking up miniscule odor-bearing particles which are floating about in the air we are breathing. When these particles intercept the moist nerve endings in the interior of the nose, called the sensory receptor cells, there is a spike in the pattern of nerve impulses sent to the thalamus. The nerves may continue to send intense stimulation for a while, but eventually the perception of the intensity declines. This is neurologically explained by the adaptation phenomena. The nerve endings begin to adapt to the new odor and consider it normal, thus ceasing to send so much information about the foreign element in the air with a coordinating decline in the frequency of impulses. Within the brain, the thalamus ceases to respond to an intense pattern of stimulation, as well. Once the odor is gone (say, you walk out of a foul-smelling room), your nose tells you that there is a change once more, perhaps a more pleasant odor it detects (Typo 1)."
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Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome, 2004.
This paper looks at Selye's syndrome known also as General Adaptation Syndrome.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper looks at Selye's syndrome, known also as General Adaptation Syndrome. Selye was the fist to talk about stress and its cause, starting in the 1920's. The writer discusses that he is credited with discovering what is behind "just feeling sick" and recognizing it is due to the body's response to constant stress. The writer reveals Selye's belief that it is the "wear and tear on the body."
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"Hans Selye wrote in the front piece of his book 'Stress': 'To those who are under the exhausting nervous strain of pursuing their ideal whatever it may be to the martyrs who sacrifice themselves for others as well as to those hounded by selfish ambition fear jealousy and worst of all by hate. For my stress stems from the urge to help and not to judge But most personally this book is dedicated to my wife who helped so much to ..."
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Film Adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", 2002.
Comparison of Shakespeare's original play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with the 1999 film adaptation by Michael Hoffman.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper looks at and compares Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, with Michael Hoffman's 1999 film adaptation. Looking at how specific differences such as language and scenes differ from interpretations, and how if there is any suggestive influence that enables us to better understand the original play.
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The Roy Adaptation Model, 2008.
An analysis of the theory and application of the Roy adaptation model to nursing care.
1,430 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 47.95
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This paper discusses the Roy adaptation model to nursing care which was created by Callista Roy. The paper discusses the theory and development of Roy's model and then discusses how her model can be applied to nursing care. The paper also discusses goal setting between the nurse and the patient and assessment of the individual or patient's outcome behaviors.
Table of Contents:
Biography
The Development and Modifications of Her Theory
Her Concept and Model
The RAM Applied in Nursing Care
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"Sister Callista's evaluation is the last step of the nursing process. Its effectiveness is determined by the assessment of the individual or patient's outcome behaviors (Stein 2000). If the outcome behaviors are identical to, or consistent with the stated goals, then the nursing intervention is considered successful. But if the outcome behaviors remain maladaptive, further evaluation of the intervention to draw up a more appropriate one is needed. When adaptive behaviors are introduced or re-established, the nursing process must be repeated in order to track down any new or omitted but ongoing problems. This is why, according to Sister Callista, the nursing process maintains a typically skeptic pos (Stein)."
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Expatriate U.S. Managers and Cultural Adaptation, 2003.
Examines the issue of expatriate U.S. managers and their cultural adaptation .
5,290 words (approx. 21.2 pages), 24 sources, APA, $ 135.95
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The paper examines the issue of expatriate U.S. managers and their cultural adaptation. It provides an overview of the topic and looks at the multiple challenges that expat managers face. The paper looks at the necessary core competencies and attributes as well as the need to develop a multicultural, international workforce.
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"Expatriate American managers working in such locations as Europe Asia Latin America and the Middle East face multiple challenges that must be met and overcome if they and their companies are to succeed in the global marketplace ..."
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Sister Callista Roy's Adaptation Theory, 2005.
A review of Sr. Callista Roy's adaptation model and its implications for nursing.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 10 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper discusses Sister Callista Roy's background, education and remarkable professional rise in conjunction with the nursing model she developed. The paper focuses on the influences on Roy's personally and professionally, and includes a brief literature review on the applicability of the adaptation model to patient care specifically and then from a theoretical standpoint examining philosophical issues of spirituality, family life and influences.
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"As in any professional environment, theories and theorists are everywhere. The nursing profession is no different, with theorists and theories ranging from Imogene King's Theory of Attainment to Ida Jean Orlando's Nursing Process Theory to Hildegard E. Peplau's Interpersonal Relations Model. However, the most revolutionary theorist who changed the face of nursing and nursing applications theory the most was Sister Callista Roy with the development of the Roy Adaptation Model. Sister Callista Roy was born on October 14, 1939 as the first daughter in an eventual family of 7 boys and 7 girls (Roy, 2003a)."
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The Evolution of Modern Diet, 2005.
Examines existing literature on the relationship between evolution and diet.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 73.95
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The ability of life to adapt to new environments is one of the principle foundations of Natural Selection. The paper shows that, given the great importance of diet on the course of our evolutionary past, it is astounding that more research has not been conducted on the origins of our dieting habits. The literature that has been written on the subject of diet has taken on many forms. Some researchers have focused on the social origins of diet and how it affects different categories of people, while others have focused on the cognitive functions behind different dieting behaviors. This literature review examines some of the past research that has been conducted and attempts to put this research into an evolutionary based frame.
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"This model theorizes that females, since females bear young, would establish small groups near a constant food source in order to ensure the health of young offspring. Males, on the other hand, would have a larger territory that would encompass several smaller female groups. Males would roam this territory and be constantly on the move, allowing for males to eat a wider (but less constant) diet. Males would therefore have a predisposition to eat anything that could be eaten, and therefore care less about the "healthy" aspect of the foodstuff. Females, having maintained a constant source of food over several generations, would be more selective with their caloric intake and only choose to eat the healthier foods."
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Cultural Adaptation in the U.S..
This paper discusses the need for cultural adaptation and integration of immigrants living in the United States of America, using references and the viewpoint of the author, who is an immigrant.
1,470 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper explains that integration into the American culture starts with a change in the mindset of persons: the adaptations taken by individuals in their personal life in order to be a part of the rhythm of a new country also will affect the integration process in their professional lives. The author points out that the language question of whether or not an immigrant should know English, or even has to know English for daily life, is not easily answered because the United States does not have an official language; contrary to common belief, this factor was never established in any government publication. The paper stresses that the integration into the American business and public culture is a vital part of becoming an independent and successful member of society both for foreigners coming to the United States and for Americans going overseas.
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"Through my previous visa process, I learned that there are behavioral standards that are expected of immigrants, which do in part include the adaptation of American values and believes. For example as an Immigrant you are questioned about whether or not you support the Constitution of the United States and whether you will follow and abide by the laws of the U.S., which in my eyes for a number of people does reflect an adaptation of culture. For example, women in Iran do not have the right to vote, yet as an immigrant in the United States you most certainly can vote after naturalization (reaching of citizenship status). Further, other cultural changes which reflect in everyday life are made. In South America it is customary to take a siesta during the warm hours of the day and resume work later in the day, in the United States this is not the case."
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Advertising and Sensory Adaptation, 2002.
Examines how sensory adaption affects the advertising industry.
1,521 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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Perhaps no other business understands how people perceive the world as much as the advertising industry. Advertisers tap into the way we react to stimuli, whether visual, auditory or tactile. Through their ads, advertisers are able to influence the way people react to a particular product. The most successful ads tap cause a memorable or emotional response and, most important, trigger purchase. However, advertising campaigns are themselves the products of current social tastes and trends. They are also shaped by the psychological processes of human perception. This paper looks at the perception phenomena of sensory adaptation and how it affects the advertising industry. The first part of the paper discusses the current research on sensory adaptation, how it works and the implications on human behavior. In the second part, the paper discusses examples of how sensory adaptation pushes the advertising industry to constantly create new ads and to generate new ways of selling a product.
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"Ad campaigns are not meant to last. Even the most successful campaigns ? like the Snapple Lady and Alka Seltzer?s Plop-Plop-Fizz-Fizz ? are eventually retired. One reason why agencies and corporations spend so much on advertising is because an ad is only good for a limited period of time. After a while of seeing the same thing over and over, people simply tune out. This is the diminishing return effect caused by sensory adaptation. To keep up, companies will pull an ad and come out with a new one, hoping to once again hook the audience?s attention.
In addition to new content, many agencies create ads that are designed to shock. In 1997, for example, The New York Times carried a full-page ad that featured ?Children Made to Order.? The ad maintained that the Gattaca Company could engineer a child based on their parents? preferences for traits like skin color, intelligence and athletic ability. In fact, the ad was not for a bioengineering firm, but for the movie Gattaca. The eye-catching ad succeeded in catching attention by provoking a strong emotional response."
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