West Palm Beach
1. A city in and the county seat of Palm Beach County, Florida.
2. One of the three main cities in South Florida.
3. The population is 99,919 at the 2010 census.
4. It is located about 68 miles north of Downtown Miami.
ALS
1. Progressive nervous system disorder.
2. Cause of the ALS is progressive nature of condition due to eventual respiratory failure.
3. Symptoms: muscle weakness; twitching and cramping of muscles, especially those in the hands and feet;
impairment of the use of the arms and legs;"thick speech" and difficulty in projecting the voice;
shortness of breath, difficulty in breathing and swallowing.
4. No treatment.
Asperger's
1. Characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, alongside restricted
and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests.
2. Symptoms: social deficit; restricted and repetitive interests and behavior; communication deficit.
3. Treatment: there is no single best treatment, but the earlier treatment is started, the better.
4. There are some ways to make patient better. First, individual psychotherapy. Second, parents education and
training. Third, behavioral modification. Fourth, social skills training, Finally, educational interventions.
1. A city in and the county seat of Palm Beach County, Florida.
2. One of the three main cities in South Florida.
3. The population is 99,919 at the 2010 census.
4. It is located about 68 miles north of Downtown Miami.
ALS
1. Progressive nervous system disorder.
2. Cause of the ALS is progressive nature of condition due to eventual respiratory failure.
3. Symptoms: muscle weakness; twitching and cramping of muscles, especially those in the hands and feet;
impairment of the use of the arms and legs;"thick speech" and difficulty in projecting the voice;
shortness of breath, difficulty in breathing and swallowing.
4. No treatment.
Asperger's
1. Characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, alongside restricted
and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests.
2. Symptoms: social deficit; restricted and repetitive interests and behavior; communication deficit.
3. Treatment: there is no single best treatment, but the earlier treatment is started, the better.
4. There are some ways to make patient better. First, individual psychotherapy. Second, parents education and
training. Third, behavioral modification. Fourth, social skills training, Finally, educational interventions.
Palliative care
A multidisciplinary approach to specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses. It focuses on providing patients with relief from the symptoms,pain, physical stress,and mental stress of a serious illness—whatever the diagnosis. The goal of such therapy is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family. Palliative care is provided by a team of physicians, nurses, and other health professionals who work together with the primary care physician and referred specialists (or, for patients who don't have those, hospital or hospice staff) to provide an extra layer of support. It is appropriate at any age and at any stage in a serious illness and can be provided along with curative treatment.
Physicians sometimes use the term palliative care in a sense meaning palliative therapies without curative intent, when no cure can be expected (as often happens in late-stage cancers). For example, tumor debulking can continue to reduce pain from mass effect even when it is no longer curative. A clearer usage is palliative, noncurative therapy when that is what is meant, because palliative care can be used along with curative or aggressive therapies.
Hospice care
A type of care and philosophy of care that focuses on the palliation of a chronically ill, terminally ill or seriously ill patient's pain and symptoms, and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs. The modern concept of hospice includes palliative care for the incurably ill given in such institutions as hospitals or nursing homes, but also care provided to those who would rather spend their last months and days of life in their own homes.
A multidisciplinary approach to specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses. It focuses on providing patients with relief from the symptoms,pain, physical stress,and mental stress of a serious illness—whatever the diagnosis. The goal of such therapy is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family. Palliative care is provided by a team of physicians, nurses, and other health professionals who work together with the primary care physician and referred specialists (or, for patients who don't have those, hospital or hospice staff) to provide an extra layer of support. It is appropriate at any age and at any stage in a serious illness and can be provided along with curative treatment.
Physicians sometimes use the term palliative care in a sense meaning palliative therapies without curative intent, when no cure can be expected (as often happens in late-stage cancers). For example, tumor debulking can continue to reduce pain from mass effect even when it is no longer curative. A clearer usage is palliative, noncurative therapy when that is what is meant, because palliative care can be used along with curative or aggressive therapies.
Hospice care
A type of care and philosophy of care that focuses on the palliation of a chronically ill, terminally ill or seriously ill patient's pain and symptoms, and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs. The modern concept of hospice includes palliative care for the incurably ill given in such institutions as hospitals or nursing homes, but also care provided to those who would rather spend their last months and days of life in their own homes.
Advance health care directive
It also known as living will, personal directive, advance directive, or advance decision, is a legal document in which a person specifies what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions for themselves because of illness or incapacity. In the U.S. it has a legal status in itself, whereas in some countries it is legally persuasive without being a legal document.
Living will
A living will is a written, legal document that spells out medical treatments you would and would not want to be used to keep you alive, as well as other decisions such as pain management or organ donation. It is one form of advance directive, leaving instructions for treatment.
In determining your wishes, think about your values, such as the importance to you of being independent and self-sufficient, and what you feel would make your life not worth living. Would you want treatment to extend life in any situation? Would you want treatment only if a cure is possible?
Have discussions with your primary care doctor, your health care agent, family and friends about your personal wishes. Resources for organizing your own thoughts and having conversations with others about medical care and end-of-life care are available through the American Bar Association, the Conversation Project and the Center for Practical Bioethics. You should address a number of possible end-of-life care decisions in your living will.
Environmental factor
In environmental science, an environmental factor or ecological factor or ecofactor is any factor, whether abiotic or biotic, that influences living organisms (abiotic factors include ambient temperature, amount of sunlight, and pH of the water soil in which an organism lives, while biotic factors include the availability of food organisms and the presence of conspecifics, competitors, predators, and parasites).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_factor
Genetic Mutarion
Mutations are changes in the genetic sequence, and they are a main cause of diversity among organisms. These changes occur at many different levels, and they can have widely differing consequences. In biological systems that are capable of reproduction, we must first focus on whether they are heritable; specifically, some mutations affect only the individual that carries them, while others affect all of the carrier organism's offspring, and further descendants. For mutations to affect an organism's descendants, they must: 1) occur in cells that produce the next generation, and 2) affect the hereditary material. Ultimately, the interplay between inherited mutations and environmental pressures generates diversity among species.
Although various types of molecular changes exist, the word "mutation" typically refers to a change that affects the nucleic acids. In cellular organisms, these nucleic acids are the building blocks of DNA, and in viruses they are the building blocks of either DNA or RNA. One way to think of DNA and RNA is that they are substances that carry the long-term memory of the information required for an organism's reproduction. This article focuses on mutations in DNA, although we should keep in mind that RNA is subject to essentially the same mutation forces.
If mutations occur in non-germline cells, then these changes can be categorized as somatic mutations. The word somatic comes from the Greek word soma which means "body", and somatic mutations only affect the present organism's body. From an evolutionary perspective, somatic mutations are uninteresting, unless they occur systematically and change some fundamental property of an individual--such as the capacity for survival. For example, cancer is a potent somatic mutation that will affect a single organism's survival. As a different focus, evolutionary theory is mostly interested in DNA changes in the cells that produce the next generation.
The butterfly effect
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. The name of the effect, coined by Edward Lorenz, is derived from the metaphorical example of the details of a hurricane (exact time of formation, exact path taken) being influenced by minor perturbations such as the flapping of the wings of a distant butterfly several weeks earlier. Lorenz discovered the effect when he observed that runs of his weather model with initial condition data that was rounded in a seemingly inconsequential manner would fail to reproduce the results of runs with the unrounded initial condition data. A very small change in initial conditions had created a significantly different outcome.
The butterfly effect is exhibited by very simple systems. For example, the randomness of the outcomes of throwing dice depends on this characteristic to amplify small differences in initial conditions—the precise direction, thrust, and orientation of the throw—into significantly different dice paths and outcomes, which makes it virtually impossible to throw dice exactly the same way twice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. The name of the effect, coined by Edward Lorenz, is derived from the metaphorical example of the details of a hurricane (exact time of formation, exact path taken) being influenced by minor perturbations such as the flapping of the wings of a distant butterfly several weeks earlier. Lorenz discovered the effect when he observed that runs of his weather model with initial condition data that was rounded in a seemingly inconsequential manner would fail to reproduce the results of runs with the unrounded initial condition data. A very small change in initial conditions had created a significantly different outcome.
The butterfly effect is exhibited by very simple systems. For example, the randomness of the outcomes of throwing dice depends on this characteristic to amplify small differences in initial conditions—the precise direction, thrust, and orientation of the throw—into significantly different dice paths and outcomes, which makes it virtually impossible to throw dice exactly the same way twice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
Cold Spring
1.Cold Spring is a village in the town of Philipstown in Putnam County, New York, United States.
2.It will take about 2 hours to get there from Flushing.
3.It is one of two incorporated Villages within the Town of Philipstown in Putnam County.
4.It is named after the naturally cold freshwater springs that flow in the area.
5.There are many worthwhile views such as Stonecrop Gardens, Hudson Highlands State Park and Foundry Dock Park.
1.Cold Spring is a village in the town of Philipstown in Putnam County, New York, United States.
2.It will take about 2 hours to get there from Flushing.
3.It is one of two incorporated Villages within the Town of Philipstown in Putnam County.
4.It is named after the naturally cold freshwater springs that flow in the area.
5.There are many worthwhile views such as Stonecrop Gardens, Hudson Highlands State Park and Foundry Dock Park.