Essays on Aging

This report outlines the main theories of how the process of aging works. Since researchers have not discovered a universally-accepted theory of aging, thetheories discussed are potential explanations of how we age. The likelihood ofeach hypothesis is considered roughly equal. The different theories discussedfocus on the workings of different parts of the body, from the…

Introduction Population aging is constituted by a shift in the distribution of a country’s population towards greater ages. Thus an increase in the population’s mean or median age, a decline in the fraction of the population composed of children, or a rise in the fraction of the population that is elderly are all aspects of…

            A matter of concern for most parents nowadays is the early age at which female children get pregnant.  Such a phenomenon is due largely to the early sexual awakening of teenagers.  This awakening is the result of many factors, one of which is the media.  However, it is not so much of the sexual…

Diagnostic Imaging: X-Ray Diagnostic Imaging is medical tools used by doctors to see inside our bodies without actually opening the body. Diagnostic imaging can involve the use of radiation which could be dangerous if exposed to large amounts of. Diagnostic imaging allows doctors to find tumors, broken bones, pneumonia, etc. In general, diagnostic imaging is…

Nowadays, management information systems (MIS) simplify the company’s operating and procedures. It also increased among organizations and provides them a good management of the organization itself. In order to make it a hundred percent efficient and eventually make it collaborate with the firm, a good coordination of this department should be considered. In this article…

Multispectral imaging is used oven an extremely wide spectral domain. It started with NASA using the technique for satellite imaging using kilometer-length radio waves, to the technique being used by forensic science using light in the visible to the near infrared region, to medical forensics using MeV gamma rays (National Research Council 1998) The use…

Aging comes naturally and people should not be frighten be it. As it turns out the fear of this process is enough to speed it up. The negative attitude is a very powerful factor in this process and has a great effect on the physical aspect of aging. It is enough to put people into…

The invention of the automatic tea bag-packaging machine by Tieback in 1949 revolutionized the tea market with the double-chamber tea bag. It meant that production volumes could be increased dramatically. Today the latest generation of these machines is capable of production speeds of almost 400 tea bags per minute, i. E. Some 4 billion per…

Money Managing money is an important aspect in a person’s life. In the book Managing Your Money: All-in one for dummies by Ted Buena, he mentions a great scenario of how you should treat money where he states, “Just as you have relationships with people in your life, you also have a relationship switch money–…

What is functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)?             “Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging or fMRI is a non-invasive brain imaging technique which captures images of brain areas that are active at a given time due different kinds of physical sensation such as sound, sight, smell, touch, and taste” (What is Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging or FMRI?). …