In a pilot study of a convenience sample of eighteen self-identified asthmatic Luo people from the Upper Nyakach Plateau in western Kenya, a cross-sectional study was performed with a sample size of n = 18. The purpose ...

Alzheimer's disease is a fatal neurological disease causing progressive deterioration of intellectual functions such as memory, reasoning, organization, language, and judgment (Narins 2005, Moore 2004). Seniors with ...

In developing countries characterized by traditional gender roles in the context of women’s very limited economic and social power, the issue of nonconsensual sex is even more complex than in cultures where women have ...

In Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus the character of Faustus is defined by the striving that leads to his fatal despair. After the Enlightenment alters the course of Western thought, the experiences of Goethe’s Faust ...

Biostatistical studies of medical data are extremely important in distinguishing relationships between drugs or treatments and the patient's medical response. These studies generally use data from large health care ...

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV, is the cause of AIDS, an immune syndrome that continues to have profound effects in the United States and around the world. There is currently no cure for AIDS, but there are several ...

Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram-positive pathogen responsible for significant infections in both the hospital and the community. Rising antibiotic resistance has led to increased infection rates, while the ability of S. ...

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis, JIA, is a chronic disease that impacts many children worldwide. JIA is marked by joint pain and inflammation, and includes several categories of disease depending on the patient’s symptoms. ...

St. Augustine in his De Musica, uses the example of the nightingale to describe those who know and create music only through sense, singing “harmoniously and sweetly” although ignorant to the “numbers or intervals of acute ...

In this paper, I present a philosophical analysis of petitionary prayer, from the perspective of one who engages in petitionary prayer on a regular basis. This paper looks at the basis for petitionary prayer from the ...