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Bipolar Disorder What Causes Bipolar Disorder? There is no single cause for bipolar disorder. Indeed, like all psychological disorders, bipolar disorder is a complex condition with multiple contributing factors, including: Genetic: Bipolar disorder tends to run in families, so researchers believe there is a genetic predisposition for the disorder. Scientists also are exploring the presence of abnormalities on specific genes. Biological: Researchers believe that some neurotransmitters, including
EUROPEAN DEBT CRISIS – ORIGIN, CONSEQUENCES AND POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS F RA N TI Š E K N E M E T H Abstract What is the European debt crisis? As the head of the Bank of England referred to it in October 2011, it is “the most serious financial crisis at least since the 1930s, if not ever.”1 In fact, the European debt crisis is the shorthand term for the region’s struggle to pay the debts it has built up in recent decades. Five of the region’s countries – Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, and Spain
Bless Me, Ultima: The Cultural Distress of a Young Society An answer to the discussion question of whether or not there is a defined border culture would need a great number of years in field research, but we can also observe a few of the characteristics of such border culture just by looking at scholastic essays and books related to the topic. Within the research that I did, I found a number of scholars who, while defining the border, mention all the specific or special characteristics of this
Plato on Education as the Development of Reason ABSTRACT: Socrates' great educational innovation was in ascribing moral worth to the intellectual activity reflectively directed at one's own life. His concept of eudaimonia was so different from the ordinary that talking about it took on sometimes a paradoxical air, as in Apology 30b3. For him, reason is not a tool for attaining goals independently thought worthwhile; rather, rationality itself, expressed in the giving of reasons and the avoidance
Hegel and The Libertarians ABSTRACT: This paper aims to show how the Hegelian philosophy can contribute to the conceptual discussions between the two strains of contemporary ethical-political philosophy. I argue that the Hegelian political theory is of central import to the discussion between communitarians and libertarians, both in the communitarian criticism of the libertarian — mainly in Michael Sandel's criticism of Rawls — and in the Rawlsian project of a society founded in justice as equality
Annotated Outline Introduction The study of knowledge has made important contributions to education. Most fundamentally in identifying epistemology as a group of informal knowledge that may play a role in the nature and source of knowledge, purpose and view of knowledge, application of knowledge, and acquisition of knowledge professional and personal. Feldman (2003) argues that epistemology is important because it is concerned with the methodology of human inquiry, or how we go about the process
3. MARCO TEÓRICO Es necesario clarificar los conceptos que atañen al proceso de percepción de sobrecarga laboral de los profesionales de enfermería de Urgencias Hospitalarias. Para ello es indispensable redefinir los conceptos según el contexto en el que se hablen. Se definirá el término de percepción, reflejaremos la confusión en las definiciones de percepción y/o sensación, que se nos plantean en el lenguaje ordinario, comentaremos las dimensiones física, biológica y social del concepto de percepción
Final Project Language variation in Dutch: A Case Study Conducted in Brabant Province, The Netherlands Introduction The study of sociolinguistics has become interesting due to the scope of its study is very wide. Its study is not only about the study of the language itself but also the context where the language is being used and the society who use the language. Therefore, there are many aspects that can be taken into consideration when the study of sociolinguistics is going to conducted
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