The first global study into the effects of passive smoking was carried out by world health organization (WHO) in 2004 among 192 countries.Governments should try to make new polices against smoking, and correspondingly smokers should try to help their selves to leave up this nasty habit.ASHTON, H. and STEPNEY, R. (1982) Smoking Psychology and Pharmacology.The study concluded that passive smoking is responsible for majority of heart diseases, asthma, respiratory ill... ... middle of paper ... ...kes it quite hard for both parties to find a way from this calamity.There are a number of different way outs for both governments and smokers to give up smoking.
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Stockley's Drug Interactions.neurochemical effects.Temple of the Screaming Electron.Hallucinogens: Route of access, brain metabolism, and .February 28 2005, from .
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These people had respected professions, such as “lawyers, doctors, teachers, journalists and businessmen”, they had “established a Western life-style using the English language and English schools” Outside the upper class Great Britain had introduced Western technology to help improve the livelihood of the population.In Algeria the French also brought about Western civilisation to some extent, creating schools and building cities as well as constructing hospitals, however they spent 162 years with almost constant violence.In addition both occupations were valuable building blocks in which to expand their empires; France into Africa and Great Britain into Asia.Great Britain decided to grant concessions when faced by fierce opposition limi...
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After America went to war with Great Britain in 1812, the new independent country found itself in need of trade and goods.Starting in Great Britain, the IR allowed civilians to improve their social and educational status due to an improvement in its economy.In Great Britain, the Industrial Revolution resulted in an improvement of civilian life.Inevitably, Japan adopted many Western traditions, such as the telegraph system, military system, and educational system.It was not until later years that the IR resulted in benefits for Britain.
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Through its history and influence, Colonial mosques should be embraced as historical landmarks and reserve their purpose in Malaysian society.However, most Muslims reside by the exotic rain forests and beaches in the islands of South East Asia, a violative and contrasting setting from the Middle East.Western Design influences in minaret, etc.Through Britain's tenure, Western and Eastern ideology and design fused together to bring fourth major changes that would forever leave a distinctive mark on Malaysian history, design, and culture.Malaysia is the most populated country in South East Asia.
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In place of a widespread and centralised Roman culture there was a multiplicity of localised territories, some of them Celtic, some of them Anglo-Saxon.(1975) “Roman mosaics in Britain before the fourth century”, in H. Stern, M. leGlay eds: La Mosaique Greco-Romaine, 269-90, Paris.This is the more so when the civilisation in question is the one which shaped much of the culture and religion of the western world down to the present day.Wacher J. S. (1975) The Towns of Roman Britain, London.By setting Britain in the context of the end of the western empire we may pick up and develop two of the themes outlined.
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As a result, even though Britain recognized the damage opium had done in China, she failed in her moral and legal duty not to encourage or participate in smuggling opium into China, especially after it had been banned in Britain.According to CNN, China’s defeat led to an invasion of Western culture, and on China’s doorstep, ‘barbarians’ lived in grand houses.The arrival of Western traders in China for the first time brought them in direct contact with a strange new world having an alien system of government.This was particularly evident in China’s refusal to consider a mutually favourable balanced trade with western nations.Though Britain had traded with the Chinese for many years, China declined to establish any formal diplomatic contac...
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Why would you want to slot people into boxes?It’s so idiotic.” But numerous critics of Laxton’s position have highlighted that her decision will likely expose her child to bullying in later life.Sex is the more technical term concerned with the bodily anatomy: it is “the physical differentiation as male or female, indicated by the external appearance of the genitalia and the presence of gonads (testes in boys, ovaries in girls) which will then determine reproductive function, as well as differences in brain structure and function .” Gender role is the role in society – “the interaction with others which both gives expression to the inner gender identity and reinforces it.” Despite the greater gender equality in modern Western culture in...
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A compound named 2-methoxy-5-(2-methyl propyl) pryazine isolated from the peach was responsible for this activity.Root bark is used as a dye.The aqueous extract of peach leaves caused a dose-dependent spasmogenic effect at the dose range of 1–10 mg/ml in isolated guinea pig ileum.The protective effects of the flower extract of the plant (KU-35) were evaluated against solar ultraviolet (UV)-induced skin damage using models of UVB-induced erythema in guinea pigs and ear edema in ICR mice.The ethanolic extract of the plant inhibits mast cell-mediated allergic inflammatory reaction by controlling calcium influx and NF-jB signaling.
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The British rule introduced the railways, the press, and the western system of education, clubs and associations all of which shook the prevalent socio-economic order.Also it gave birth to a spirit of inquiry in the minds of Indian intellectuals who came in contact with western education.The presence of Western traders in India increased the demand for goods and services in India.Britain did benefit from the situation; however, notwithstanding the obvious injustices associated with colonization, India also experienced positive impacts that continued even once India gained independence from Britain in 1947.Western culture also improved Indian culture with the development of a road network, telephone and telegraph lines, many dams and brid...
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Some of the positive effects of this western imperialism were the new technologies such as medicine and nutrition that were brought to Africa.Native tribes as well as several western powers were all trying to gain as much land as possible.The major difference between Western Imperialism in India and Africa is that in Africa more than two groups were fighting for the land.Others were outraged at the exploitation of the Indian culture.The West believes that it was there duty to spread their “glorious” culture to those who were less fortunate then those.
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Journal of Clinical Psychology, June: 686-697. .Wilfey, D. E., Cohen, L. R. (1997).American Journal of Psychiatry, 154: 523-531. .Psychosocial and Pharmacological Treatment of Eating Disorders: A Review of Research Findings.Psychological Treatment of Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder.
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Developmental psychobiology of aggression.Retreived February 10, 2008 from Online Readings for Psychology and Culture, Center for Cross-Cultural Research, Western Washington University .McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (5 .Wilczynski, W. (2007).New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
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When the Germanic tribes invaded Britain they were still pagans and fought against the Celtic Christians.Medieval history is dominated by the struggle of the Celts in Britain against Anglo-Saxon supremacy.The most populous Celtic community in Great Britain are the inhabitants of Wales in the western part of England.Until the eighteenth century, Welsh society was divided into an Anglicized élite of Welsh descent, loyal to the kings of England, and Welsh peasantry whose lifeways remained practically untouched by English culture.Williams, Colin H. “Cymric (Welsh).” In Wieser Encyclopaedia – Western European Languages, eds.
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Zia ul Haq, the status of Urdu continued to diminish, and the English language continued to spread, and ofcourse with it, the western culture.This has lead to shift in the buying behavior of consumers and hence also influencing the culture, since the two are very closely related.This transfer of one culture onto another, is what we call, cultural imperialism.Organizations such as IMF and World Bank, have consistently imposed the western corporate vision, through structural adjustment programs, trade deregulation, reducing barriers to trade etc, and Pakistan, being one of the developing countries, was subjected to such economic imperialism.It is the corporate sector dominated by the west through technologies that allow mass communication ...
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[20] 3.1 The Chinese communities and Chinatowns in contemporary Britain The British Chinese community is the second largest in Western Europe and thought to be the oldest; many of them live in Britain for generations.[3] It is the first time the Chinese Empire (Qing Dynasty) encountered with a western European country in the battlefield.Influenced by British colonialism, the mentality of people in HK is mixed with traditional Chinese culture and western culture.IV The presence of the Chinese people and culture in contemporary Britain The Chinese people in Britain account for 0.4 percent of the total population in 2001.V The sense of origin and identity of Chinese people in Britain In general, most of the British Chinese people would be t...
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Unlike in the past, most Chinese firms in the contemporary foreign business culture limit the number of expatriates and embrace language learning as a way of promoting communication and interaction between expatriate staffs and local staffs in their subsidiaries (Azolukwam & Perkins 2009).On the other hand, Britain is located in Western Europe.Goldman, A 1994, ‘The central role of national culture in cross-cultural management: proxemic conflicts in the Internationalization of TQM’, Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, vol.Merritt, A 2000, ‘Culture in the cockpit: Do Hofstede’s dimensions replicate?’, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, vol.This paper has explored the critical aspects of cross cultural management in thre...
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In consequence, Britain deemed that it was their obligation, as a dominant nation, to bring sensibility, western culture and industrialization to a ‘barbaric’, uncivilized country, like China.silk and tea), its strategic ports and huge potential market intrigued Britain to want to gain these economic advantages.Initially, China refused to implement western ideas and technology because they too felt superior.Britain fought wars to secure trading privileges in this area.Moreover, Britain’s sensations of culture superiority and her economic necessities were other reasons for overseas expansion in this area.
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Opium Regimes: Chain, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952.The major cause of the wars was due to opium smuggling in China by drug traffickers from Ireland and United Kingdom of Britain (Willoughby, 13).The war was a success to western nations that were given the opportunity to spread their western culture in China and also Christianity was spread in many parts.It emerged that to win the war against opium, there was need to adopt Western technology.Britain sent their warships in June 1840 and this was the beginning of the conflict.
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Therefore, while mainstream culture and the political establishment may well have both publicly and privately continued to denounce homosexuality in all its forms as a sin (and preferred to keep homosexuality firmly outside of the realms of civilised society), the removal of the spectre of a criminal offence telegraphed a major turning point in the way in which gay people were viewed and treated in post war Britain.Viewed through this prism, the 1967 Sexual Offences Act can be seen to be a symptom of the broader civil rights movement of the 1960s which oversaw the criminalisation of inequality relating to gender, race, creed and religion in all of the major countries of the western hemisphere.As Naphy aptly suggests, the rate at which ho...
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This evidence suggests that a sizeable majority of the population retain religious beliefs; therefore it would be wrong to say that Britain is becoming a secular society.The key point is that importance of religion has not declined in Modern Britain.Stark (1985) argued that religion will not lose its transcendental character despite the rationalism and scientific and technological basis of modern Britain.The Secularisation thesis in relation to Modern Britain is complex model and one which has created much discussion amongst scholars.It has been argued by many such as Wilson, Voas and Weber that religion has lost its social significance and is no longer the foci of our cultural preoccupations in modern Britain.
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A case in point is that in Friedrich Schiller’s ‘Letters upon the Aesthetical Education of Man’ (1795), argued that the machine was a threat to individual freedom and a destructive force on contemporary culture.Rider, Christine (1995), ‘An Introduction to Economic History’ South Western .. Before this revolution, Britain was a quite different place to the one that exists today.There is a lot of speculation as to why the Industrial Revolution occurred first in Western Europe, especially in Britain.The issues surrounding the relationship between technology and culture have continued to interest critics and writers well into the twentieth century.The meaning of culture was changed drastically because of the new job openings and great incre...
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This is related to the fact that decades of research seem to indicate that disorders of the mind are not necessarily comparable to disorders of the body, and so simple treatments that work for all may never be a reality.Although research has thus far indicated that the causes are wide ranging and that there may be no simple cure-all drug for mental health disorders, at least this points researchers in the correct direction for new treatment options.Aside from helping patients, pharmacology has also been important in scientific theorising about the causal factors that may underlie different mental health issues.Thus, pharmacology can inform theory about different mental health issues with a view to discovering their underlying cause and, ...
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In seeking a correlation between chemical structure and pharmacological activity among anticoagulants of the hydroxyconmarin and indanedione types, Mentzer (1948) postulated that the anticoagulant activity arise from the (group I) system present in these comp (II).This process involves a group of workers from various branches such as chemistry, biology, biochemistry, pharmacology, medicine and computing,etc.suggested that anticoagulant activity might be related, to some extent at least, to the lipophilic properties of the molecule.The case of 2-phenyl-2-methylindane-l : 3-dione (III), which is completely devoid of any anticoagulant action, seems to support this theory, since the presence of the methyl group prevents the occurrence of ket...
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However science and technology is not to condemn since science and technology is developed from the western culture and manifests in the area of educational construction, innovations, world views, organization of societies and offers models for researching.The fact that before Britain colonized and introduced the scientific inventions of steel, guns, advanced human resource management that resulted to decrease of Aboriginal population by 80% from 300,000 to 60,000 persons (Gottesfeld Mathewes 1991).But after induction of western science and technology the face of Australia have drastically changed negatively.In this regard, harmonizing the cultural values and western science will prove difficult (Diamond 1999) due to existing barriers l...
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(Bell,1991) The unambiguity news value model illustrated by Bell, states “that the more clear cut a story is, the more it is favoured” (Bell,1991) .But critically evaluating these model in the front page lead story on the Sun newspaper editorial , it can be critically evaluated that the editorial publication might not be of interest to someone outside the cultural proximity or geographical context of Britain, and the non -western media axis, from readers in another country and will not attract readership interest based on individual perception within the international and foreign news media context, and may vary from different norms and guides considering the news values and cultures on how reporters and journalist, editors in other non-...
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But even in the revised version, western technology remains important.Very few systematic studies have been conducted by the southern scholars on cultural and ideological effects on western media on the audiences of the south (Thussu, 2006).One of the major issues of this theory was that it did not consider the role of the national elites, especially elites living in the developing countries (Thussu, 2006).It was also argued that western scholars did not have deep knowledge about the Third world cultures.His view of modernity means that it is full of forces like the ‘dynamic and development forces’ which means that the Western cultures are being imposed on the Third world nations in order to modernise and develop their countries.(Berger,...
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Pop art included images from popular culture such as consumer goods, magazines and advertisements as opposed to more serious elitist culture art like abstract expressionism.Pop art in America could be more pessimistic at times and narrated with hidden messages having to be prized from the works, but as with Britain I think the idea was still celebratory although there was a little more critique from America than Britain, this would only be expected though as America being much larger would have more of a variation in opinion.The material, mainly in images they discussed at length were of that found in Western movies, comic books, science fiction, automobile design, billboards, and rock and roll music.In the early 1950s Britain was still ...
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However even though this is totally unacceptable in modern western society still in many countries young children are in full-time work which can often be very physically demanding.In western society up to the twentieth century children were put to work at what now seems the very young age of seven or eight years old this differs considerably from today's society where it is thought that children under ten years of age do not know the difference between right and wrong.Before Britain can call herself a successful child-centred society the government and society in general must address issues such as child abuse and do more to try and put a stop to it.However it is debatable about how much of a child-centred society we have become as the ...
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The invasion of the neutral Belgium by Germany triggered Britain to declare war against Germans.In Britain, a class system arose demarcating the lower class from the advantaged class whereas, in France the number of men significantly reduced (Tuchman, 2004).In the Western Front, the innovated gas weapons killed many people.Earlier, Britain had promised to defend Belgium against any attack.It led to the realization that women too could perform masculine tasks.
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