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    The fight-or-flight response is a type of reaction that humans and animals have when associated in stressful events. It typically kicks in when something that is mentally or physically terrifying occurs (Cherry, 2018). When a person feels threatened, they make the decision to either defend themselves or remove themselves from the setting. But this response has more to do with internal aspects of a person's body, not just the psychological emotions of the response. This response was primarily described

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    Automatic Response To Stress Essay

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    Psychological and physical well-being and the overall quality of life are under a constant threat of stress and thus, psychological and medical sciences have long been concerned with studying stress response. Cox (1979) claimed that because of the poor understanding and defining it, the concept of stress tends to be rather elusive. The term, “stress”, commonly describes any physchological or physical alteration that deranges the organism’s homeostasis (or balance). This essay reviews some of the

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    Stage1- Alarm stage is the immediate response to the stressor. This immediate response will result in a person's sympathetic nervous system being stimulated. The stimulation of the person's sympathetic nervous system is characterized by the increase in one’s heart rate, blood pressure, and respirations. This reaction is also known as a fight or flight response when adrenaline is released in a person body which stimulates the sympathetic nervous system. This stage gives us the strength to fight off

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    Reader Response Theory Reader-response theory identifies the reader as an affective agent who imparts real exist-ence and life to the work, completing its meaning through interpretation. Reader- response criti-cism argues that literature should be viewed as art in which each reader creates his or her own-most likely unique, text-related performance. I am using Wolfgang Iser and Stanley Fish’s takes on Reader Response for my study. Iser’s Theory of Reception and Transactional Reader Response Theory

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    Load measurement in Home Energy Management System with Demand Response Dhinakar P1, John Clement Sunder A2, Ramesh S M3, Vignesh Kirubaharan D4 1PG Scholar, 2Associate Professor, 1PG Scholar, 3Associate Professor, 4PG Scholar 1,2,3,4Bannari Amman Institute of Technology Sathyamangalam, Pin no.638401 1maharajadhinakar@gmail.com, 2johnclementsundera@bitsathy.ac.in, 3rameshsm@bitsathy.ac.in, 4vigki92@gmail.com Abstract: In this paper we present a load measurement scheme for home energy management

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    been in a situation where you either ran away or fought it off? If you have then you have possibly experienced the fight or flight response. The fight or flight response can be very beneficial to your survival, but in today's world it can also be very harmful to you. Our fight or flight response originally protected us from saber tooth tigers (The Fight or Flight Response, paragraph 7). Today, most threats that we encounter are not a threat to our survival. People are mostly worried about being late

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    stimulis is unexpected, highly dangerous and threatening to the 2 individuals. According to Selye ‘Response based stress’ is the body’s response to noxious or aversive stimuli http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2560943/?page=1 , therefore the individuals who were affected by the militant attacks would show symptoms of the early stages of acute stress disorder. The body’s immediate response to stress is implemented by the physconeruoimmunological interactions with the General adaption theory

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    Reader Response: Harrison Bergeron Reader Response Criticism fits the story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. because this type of criticism focuses on what the readers are thinking while they are reading. While readers read the text, they tend to create their own interpretation instead of finding a meaning. Their interpretations grow as they interpret the characters, plots, and images of the story. The meaning of “Harrison Bergeron” and the theme it is trying to get across evolves as

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    An auditory brainstem response is an electrical potential generated from the changes in neural activity when an acoustic stimulus is presented into the ear. Stimuli in the form of clicks, tonebursts or chirps are transmitted through a transducer and measured using surface electrodes positioned on the scalp. The elicited waveform response consists of 7 waves that occur within a period of 10ms after the presented stimuli. Each waveform peak is labeled from I-VII where each wave corresponds to a neural

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    Fish’s Reader Response Criticism is composed of two interdependent ideas: first, that the meaning of texts is shaped by the reading experience itself, and second, that these meanings cannot be judged to be correct or incorrect, but merely belonging to one “interpretive community” or another. The first idea may be identified as the executive aspect of Reader Response Criticism because it analyzes the act of reading, while the second idea is the epistemological aspect of the theory because it circumscribes

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