By: gaga | 2011-01-01 | Business History Reconstructive nose surgery was first developed by Sushruta, an important Ayurvedic physician in ancient India, who is often regarded as the "father of plastic surgery."[citation needed] Sushruta first described nasal reconstruction in his text Sushruta Samhita circa 500 BC. He and his later students and disciples used rhinoplasty to reconstruct noses that were amputated as a punishment for crimes read more
By: gaga | 2010-12-31 | Business Overview A lost source accident is one where a radioactive object is lost or stolen. Such objects often end up in the scrap metal industry, as people mistake them for harmless bits of metal. The International Atomic Energy Agency has provided guides for scrap metal collectors on what a sealed source might look like. The best known example of this type of event is the Goinia accident, in Brazil. While some lost source accidents have not involved the scrap metal industry read more
By: gaga | 2010-12-13 | Business Classification and notation Source regions of global air masses The Bergeron classification is the most widely accepted form of air mass classification, though others have produced more refined versions of this scheme over different regions of the globe. Air mass classification involves three letters. The first letter describes its moisture properties, with c used for continental air masses (dry) and m for maritime air masses (moist) read more
By: Isabel De Los Rios | 2010-12-24 | Wellness Do you want to know how to lose weight fast and keep it off forever? Learn to cook! The only way to reach your weight loss goals is to take control of what you eat. You don't have to give up your favorite foods, you don't have to swear off desserts forever...and there's never any need to feel hungry or unsatisfied. read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-13 | Business History Franklin Hiram King coined the term permanent agriculture in his classic book from 1911, Farmers of Forty Centuries: Or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan. In this context, permanent agriculture is understood as agriculture that can be sustained indefinitely. In 1929, Joseph Russell Smith took up the term as the subtitle for Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-22 | Business History Before incandescent lamps, gas lighting was employed in cities. The earliest lamps required that a lamplighter tour the town at dusk, lighting each of the lamps, but later designs employed ignition devices that would automatically strike the flame when the gas supply was activated. The earliest of such street lamps were built in the Arab Empire, especially in Crdoba, Spain. The first modern street lamps, which used kerosene, were introduced in Lvov, Poland in 1853 read more
By: tianli | 2011-04-19 | Leadership History Foundation L. M. Ericsson Lars Magnus Ericsson began his association with telephones in his youth as an instrument maker read more
By: Andy King | 2012-02-04 | Medicine Diclofenac is to be used to reduce inflammation and pain caused by arthritis or ankylosing spondylitis and also migraines. read more
By: Brent McNutt | 2010-03-26 | Nutrition No matter where we go, it seems that we are getting the message that we are getting too much sodium in our diets. While it is true that sodium in excess can be harmful in our lives and in the way that we eat, the truth of the matter is that we are told this often enough that it might lose all sense of urgency! read more
By: Jo Alelsto | 2010-04-02 | Science Sodium hydroxide is an extremely powerful base or alkaline being used in factories. It is found in cleaning agents. This chemical is very dangerous and may cause harm with exposure to skin, airways, and gastrointestinal tract. Careful handling and warehousing must be followed. read more
By: Mary Ponce | 2010-03-28 | Nutrition If you are ready to live better and to eat more healthy, it is time for you to look into cutting some of the sodium out of your diet. There are many people who know to cut salt and fat out of their diet, but because it is so common in their diets, it just never hits their radar. read more
By: Robert Rister | 2010-03-24 | Cancer The famous Warburg Hypothesis taught that cancer cells shun oxygen and thrive on sugar. The practical implication of the Warburg Hypothesis, however, is less about sugar than about salt. read more
By: Duchess | 2011-02-21 | Health & Fitness High blood pressure (hypertension) is a chronic illness in which your blood pressure readings are constantly 140/90 and above. If your pressure rises and remains high for an extended period it can lead to: stroke, heart attack, heart failure, arterial aneurysm or kidney failure. One of the major threats against maintaining a normal blood pressure is very prominent in our kitchen cupboards and most of the foods we eat salt read more
By: Dominic Longpre | 2012-05-29 | Internet Marketing Today we are going to compare High-Pressure Sodium (HPS) with LED. Based on the knowledge we learned about LED before, we basically know that LED lights are more efficiency, more energy saving, more durable than incandescent lights and compact fluorescent lights (CFL). read more