Nowadays, there is a number of students who are having a problem in deciding which universities they want to apply to. In order to solve this problem, students should consider the courses offered by the universities, facilities provided and fees that will be charge during the study period.
The first point is courses offered. The student should apply the university that offered the course which have a good job opportunity in the future. For example, the nursing course. The reason is there are a number of people easily are get sick due to their bad lifestyle. Besides that, there is also a lot of new hospital will be opened.
The good university should provide a best facilities is the second factor for the student should considered. The example of the facilities are the library, transportation and hostel. The library must provide a lot of books as a student's research center and the transportation is to bring students from one place to another place such as public cab. Other than that, the university should provide the hostel that have a good environment and comfortable for the student to study and rest.
The last factor is a fees. The student must choose the course that provide affordable's fees for them. Apart from that, the university should provide a loan such as PTPTN and MARA.
As a conclusion, the courses offered,facilities and fees are the important factors to student should consider when applying the university.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Laughter: The Best Medicine
Laughter reduces pain, increases job performance, connects people emotionally, and improves the flow of oxygen to the heart and brain.
Laughter, it's said, is the best medicine. And there's lots of evidence that laughter does lots of good things for us.
It reduces pain and allows us to tolerate discomfort.
It reduces blood sugar levels, increasing glucose tolerance in diabetics and nondiabetics alike.
It improves your job performance, especially if your work depends on creativity and solving complex problems. Its role in intimate relationships is vastly underestimated and it really is the glue of good marriages. It synchronizes the brains of speaker and listener so that they are emotionally attuned.
Laughter establishes -- or restores -- a positive emotional climate and a sense of connection between two people, In fact, some researchers believe that the major function of laughter is to bring people together. And all the health benefits of laughter may simply result from the social support that laughter stimulates.
Now comes hard new evidence that laughter helps your blood vessels function better. It acts on the inner lining of blood vessels, called the endothelium, causing vessels to relax and expand, increasing blood flow. In other words, it's good for your heart and brain, two organs that require the steady flow of oxygen carried in the blood.
At this year's meeting of the American College of Cardiology, Michael Miller, M.D., of the University of Maryland reported that in a study of 20 healthy people, provoking laughter did as much good for their arteries as aerobic activity. He doesn't recommend that you laugh and not exercise. But he does advise that you try to laugh on a regular basis. The endothelium, he explains, regulates blood flow and adjusts the propensity of blood to coagulate and clot. In addition, it secretes assorted chemicals in response to wounds, infection or irritation. It also plays an important role in the development of cardiovascular disease.
"The endothelium is the first line in the development of atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries," said Dr. Miller. "So given the results of our study, it is conceivable that laughing may be important to maintain a healthy endothelium. And reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease."
At the very least, he adds, "laughter offsets the impact of mental stress, which is harmful to the endothelium."
The researcher can't say for sure exactly how laughter delivers its heart benefit. It could come from the vigorous movement of the diaphragm muscles as you chuckle or guffaw. Alternatively, or additionally, laughter might trigger the release in the brain of such hormones as endorphins that have an effect on arteries.
It's also possible that laughter boosts levels of nitric oxide in artery walls. Nitric oxide is known to play a role in the dilation of the endothelium. "Perhaps mental stress leads to a breakdown in nitric oxide or inhibits a stimulus to produce nitric oxide that results in vasoconstriction."
Dr. Miller offers a simple prescription that won't bankrupt you and could save your life. "Thirty minutes of exercise three times a week, and 15 minutes of laughter on a daily basis is probably good for the vascular system," he says.
It reduces pain and allows us to tolerate discomfort.
It reduces blood sugar levels, increasing glucose tolerance in diabetics and nondiabetics alike.
It improves your job performance, especially if your work depends on creativity and solving complex problems. Its role in intimate relationships is vastly underestimated and it really is the glue of good marriages. It synchronizes the brains of speaker and listener so that they are emotionally attuned.
Laughter establishes -- or restores -- a positive emotional climate and a sense of connection between two people, In fact, some researchers believe that the major function of laughter is to bring people together. And all the health benefits of laughter may simply result from the social support that laughter stimulates.
Now comes hard new evidence that laughter helps your blood vessels function better. It acts on the inner lining of blood vessels, called the endothelium, causing vessels to relax and expand, increasing blood flow. In other words, it's good for your heart and brain, two organs that require the steady flow of oxygen carried in the blood.
At this year's meeting of the American College of Cardiology, Michael Miller, M.D., of the University of Maryland reported that in a study of 20 healthy people, provoking laughter did as much good for their arteries as aerobic activity. He doesn't recommend that you laugh and not exercise. But he does advise that you try to laugh on a regular basis. The endothelium, he explains, regulates blood flow and adjusts the propensity of blood to coagulate and clot. In addition, it secretes assorted chemicals in response to wounds, infection or irritation. It also plays an important role in the development of cardiovascular disease.
"The endothelium is the first line in the development of atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries," said Dr. Miller. "So given the results of our study, it is conceivable that laughing may be important to maintain a healthy endothelium. And reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease."
At the very least, he adds, "laughter offsets the impact of mental stress, which is harmful to the endothelium."
The researcher can't say for sure exactly how laughter delivers its heart benefit. It could come from the vigorous movement of the diaphragm muscles as you chuckle or guffaw. Alternatively, or additionally, laughter might trigger the release in the brain of such hormones as endorphins that have an effect on arteries.
It's also possible that laughter boosts levels of nitric oxide in artery walls. Nitric oxide is known to play a role in the dilation of the endothelium. "Perhaps mental stress leads to a breakdown in nitric oxide or inhibits a stimulus to produce nitric oxide that results in vasoconstriction."
Dr. Miller offers a simple prescription that won't bankrupt you and could save your life. "Thirty minutes of exercise three times a week, and 15 minutes of laughter on a daily basis is probably good for the vascular system," he says.
Are you getting enough sleep?
Written by Colin Brennan, medical journalist Research at the University of Westminster has confirmed something that most of us already knew - there are people who do mornings and there are people who don't. There is a difference between those who leap out of bed early and throw themselves straight into demanding activities and those who have to drag themselves into consciousness, needing a prolonged warm-up period before they can face a coffee let alone the business of the day.
Nail That Problem....
DID YOU KNOW your fingernails can alert you to a health problem? Here, says dermatologist Janis Campbell, are some signs and remedies :
Horizontal ridges. You could have a zinc deficiency. Take a multivitamin.
Splits or Chips. You may not be getting enough calcium.
Curled up. You lack iron. Talk to your doctor about the blood test.
Yellowish green. It could be a fungus. keep your nails out of water and see your doctor.
Also..... Large blood vessels around the cuticle, and flat or two-toned nails, could be signs of conditions such as a lupus or kidney disease.
Horizontal ridges. You could have a zinc deficiency. Take a multivitamin.
Splits or Chips. You may not be getting enough calcium.
Curled up. You lack iron. Talk to your doctor about the blood test.
Yellowish green. It could be a fungus. keep your nails out of water and see your doctor.
Also..... Large blood vessels around the cuticle, and flat or two-toned nails, could be signs of conditions such as a lupus or kidney disease.
Coffee's New Perk ....
Enjoy your morning brew and it may provide a hedge against cancer. A new study of 60,000 women shows that those who drank four or more cups of coffee a day cut their risk for endometrial cancer by 25 percent, compared with those who had a cup or less. (Risk fell by 46 percent for obese women who are most prone to developing the disease).
Men may benefit too. Recent research suggests a 60 percent drop in the risk of developing aggressive prostate cancer among those who drink six or more cups of coffee daily, compared with men who don’t have any.
High styles pleases knees.....
Good news for glamour pusses: high heels may actualy be good for your knees. More than 2% of people age over 55 suffer pain as a result of knee osteoartritis. But researchers at Oxford Brookes University in England wondered twice as many women as men over 65 were affected. The suspected high heels might be to blame. However, a survey 111 women found those who had regularly worn 7.5cm heels more likely to have healthy knees-particularly if there'd danced in heels. Being overweight before 40, heavy smoking and previous knee injury were far more likely to increase the risk of knee osteoarthritis.
STRESS AFFECTS LEARNING AND MEMORY....
Although it is known that long-term or chronic stress can affect the brain’s learning and memory region, a new finding discovers short-term stress, lasting as little as a few hours, can also impair brain-cell communication in these critical areas.
The study by University of California, Irvine researchers appears in the March 12 edition of the Journal of Neuroscience.
“Stress is a constant in our lives and cannot be avoided,” said Dr. Tallie Z. Baram, the Danette Shepard Chair in Neurological Sciences in the UC Irvine School of Medicine and study leader.
“Our findings can play an important role in the current development of drugs that might prevent these undesirable effects and offer insights into why some people are forgetful or have difficulty retaining information during stressful situations.”
In their study, Baram and her UC Irvine colleagues identified a novel process by which stress caused these effects. They found that rather than involving the widely known stress hormone cortisol, which circulates throughout the body, acute stress activated selective molecules called corticotropin releasing hormones, which disrupted the process by which the brain collects and stores memories.
Learning and memory take place at synapses, which are junctions through which brain cells communicate. These synapses reside on specialized branchlike protrusions on neurons called dendritic spines.
In rat and mouse studies, Baram’s group saw that the release of CRH in the hippocampus, the brain’s primary learning and memory center, led to the rapid disintegration of these dendritic spines, which in turn limited the ability of synapses to collect and store memories.
The researchers discovered that blocking the CRH molecules’ interaction with their receptor molecules eliminated stress damage to dendritic spines in the hippocampal cells involved with learning and memory.
In addition, the authors replicated the effects of stress on dendritic spines by administering low levels of synthetic CRH, and watching how the spines retracted over minutes. “Fortunately, once we removed the CRH, the spines seemed to grow back,” Baram said.
Baram also noted that there are compounds under development that show the ability to block CRH receptors, and that this study can play a role in the creation of therapies based on these compounds to address stress-related learning and memory loss.
Source: University of California – Irvine
Shade Advantage....
Cataracts are a major cause of blindness with an estimated 20 million people world-wide blinded by the disease. Cortical cataracts, a clouding of the outer layer of the lens, are known to be associated with sun damage in adulthood. But the more common form, nuclear cataracts - which account for about 80 per cent of all cases - affect the centre of the lens. They were though to be a part of natural ageing but now researchers in Australia think they may be preventable. A study led by Professor Adele Green at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research compared the lifetime sun exposure of 195 nuclear cataract sufferers with a control group of 159 patients. The results, published in the journal Epidemiology, suggest that the risk of developing nuclear cataracts was greatest among patients who had high exposure to sun before the age of 30.
What is hotter, a white,blue or red flame?.......
If the element on your stove had no limit, it would theoritically pass from the original black (amitting no heat) to red (925 degree celcius) orange, yellow and then white (1200 degree) and finally bluish white ( 2000 degree).
The hotter the temperature, the more the colours shift from red to yellow to white to blue. Blue is so hot it is at the very edge of the visible spectrum. Beyond blue are ultraviolet rays, which can cause burn an even skin cancer.
The hotter the temperature, the more the colours shift from red to yellow to white to blue. Blue is so hot it is at the very edge of the visible spectrum. Beyond blue are ultraviolet rays, which can cause burn an even skin cancer.
Are there more women or men on earth?.....
More than 6.2 billion humans inhabit our planet and most of them are male, though the guys don't outnumber the gals by March. Worldwide there are slightly more than 101 males for every 100 females, numbering about 40 million more in all.
The sex ratio is not distributed equally, however wearing consider by age an region. In the world as a whole, male numerical dominance drops with age, so that females start to outnumber their male counterparts by the yearly 50s.
The sex ratio is not distributed equally, however wearing consider by age an region. In the world as a whole, male numerical dominance drops with age, so that females start to outnumber their male counterparts by the yearly 50s.
Lose weight with Fiber.....
Eat less, feel fuller? That's one benefit of a high fiber diet. Weight loss is another. Researchers at Tufts University reviewed data on fiber and found that people who ate an extra 14g of fiber daily cut their kilojoule intake by about 10 per cent; thus who added 12g loss about half a kilo per month.
"Fiber can help with weight loss because it increases the sensation of fullness and influences the hormones that regulate food intake," says study co-author Edward Saltzman.
The American Heart Association recommens that adults get 25 to 30grams of fiber daily. Fill up on fiber with salad, fruit, beans and nuts.
"Fiber can help with weight loss because it increases the sensation of fullness and influences the hormones that regulate food intake," says study co-author Edward Saltzman.
The American Heart Association recommens that adults get 25 to 30grams of fiber daily. Fill up on fiber with salad, fruit, beans and nuts.
Get in the Sun without Sunblock.....
Vitamin D is the new nutrient superstar, linked with lower risk of all sorts of disorders including heart disease, diabetes, multiple sclerosis and rheumatism. And now its looks as if it helps with weight loss, too.
During the summer of 2008, in a small trial of 38, a researcher from the university of Minnesota reported that those with more vitamin D is their blood lost more weight. For every extra nanogram per milliliter they lost an extra quarter-kilo.
Other trials, too have linked higher vitamin D level with less obesity. But why? All vitamin D experts agree that lots more research is needed-but in the mean time, one interesting theory is emerging from Imperial College, London. Because sunlight is the main source of a vitamin D, a low level of vitamin D may make the body think that colder weather is one the way, and therefor that it has to store more food.
There's also much debate about how much you should be taking. The official recommended daily allowance is 200 IU (international units) but many experts are now suggesting 1000 or even 2000. A daily dose of 1000 over several months would rest your blood level by 10mls meaning you could lose an extra 2kg on top of what you'd expect to on your diet.
During the summer of 2008, in a small trial of 38, a researcher from the university of Minnesota reported that those with more vitamin D is their blood lost more weight. For every extra nanogram per milliliter they lost an extra quarter-kilo.
Other trials, too have linked higher vitamin D level with less obesity. But why? All vitamin D experts agree that lots more research is needed-but in the mean time, one interesting theory is emerging from Imperial College, London. Because sunlight is the main source of a vitamin D, a low level of vitamin D may make the body think that colder weather is one the way, and therefor that it has to store more food.
There's also much debate about how much you should be taking. The official recommended daily allowance is 200 IU (international units) but many experts are now suggesting 1000 or even 2000. A daily dose of 1000 over several months would rest your blood level by 10mls meaning you could lose an extra 2kg on top of what you'd expect to on your diet.
Check your Testosterone level (men only)....
If you are a middle-aged man whose middle is spreading, it may not just be that you are exercising less and eating more, but that you are making too much of female hormone oestrogen.
Although we talk about male and female hormones, we all make both, and we all use testosterone to make oestrogen. This is particularly significant for older men. As we age, we not only make less testosterone, we also turn more of it into oestrogen.
The extra oestrogen encourages more fat to be laid down around the middle-just the place where fat stores are linked with an increase risk of diabetes and heart disease. This sets up a vicious circle.The newly stored fat pumps out more of the enzyme that turns testosterone into oestrogen.
To break the circle, you could exercise to give yourself energy and build muscle-although your reduced testosterone will make that option less appealing. A testosterone supplement which a few doctors prescribe if your level has become very low, may help. You should also stop drinking because having to clear away regular large amounts of alcohol means your liver is less efficient at getting rid of the extra oestrogen.
Although we talk about male and female hormones, we all make both, and we all use testosterone to make oestrogen. This is particularly significant for older men. As we age, we not only make less testosterone, we also turn more of it into oestrogen.
The extra oestrogen encourages more fat to be laid down around the middle-just the place where fat stores are linked with an increase risk of diabetes and heart disease. This sets up a vicious circle.The newly stored fat pumps out more of the enzyme that turns testosterone into oestrogen.
To break the circle, you could exercise to give yourself energy and build muscle-although your reduced testosterone will make that option less appealing. A testosterone supplement which a few doctors prescribe if your level has become very low, may help. You should also stop drinking because having to clear away regular large amounts of alcohol means your liver is less efficient at getting rid of the extra oestrogen.
Nuts to Diabetes.....
You've heard that nuts can fit into a healthy diet. Though they are fatty, most kernels are packed with monounsaturated fat that boosts good cholesterol count. Now Harvard researchers have found that women who eat roughly a handful of nuts (or a tablespoon of peanut butter) five times a week are 20 per cent less likely to develop Type II diabetes. Don't feel left out, guys: the researchers believe the findings apply to you too.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
SNORING IS A PAIN.....!!!!!!!!!!
People with chronic daily headaches are nearly twice as likely to be snorers, according to a study from the American National Institute on Ageing. Snoring may cause headaches by obstructing airflow and decreasing oxygen to the brain, or by disturbing sleep. Treating the snoring (avoid sleeping on your back and ease up on alcohol) may help. If that doesn't work, consider your medication. Some drugs - including ones for headaches - aggravate snoring. See if you can get a different prescription.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Shortness Heightens Heart Risk.....
Finnish researchers suggested in the European Heart Journal that women under 153cm and men shorter than 165cm are 1.5 times more likely to develop and die from heart disease.
Studies showed that there is a strong link between stature and heart disease risk, although the reason is not conclusively clear. It could be that shorter people have shorter blood vessels to the heart,which may make it easier to clog.
But researchers say that short people should not worry unduly. There are also other factors like weight, lifestyle habits such as smoking, drinking and exercise that contribute to heart risk.
This does not mean that tall people are protected against heart disease, only that short adults should pay attention and realise their increased risk.
What's most important for maintaining healthy heart is to exercise regularly, eat a healthy and balanced diet, stop smoking and watch your weight.
Studies showed that there is a strong link between stature and heart disease risk, although the reason is not conclusively clear. It could be that shorter people have shorter blood vessels to the heart,which may make it easier to clog.
But researchers say that short people should not worry unduly. There are also other factors like weight, lifestyle habits such as smoking, drinking and exercise that contribute to heart risk.
This does not mean that tall people are protected against heart disease, only that short adults should pay attention and realise their increased risk.
What's most important for maintaining healthy heart is to exercise regularly, eat a healthy and balanced diet, stop smoking and watch your weight.
DoN't liKe FisH??
It's a top source of omega-3 fatty acids, which studies show can reduce blood pressure and the risk of heart attack-but what if you don't like the flavour of fish?
A study from England suggests that you may get nearly as much benefit from plant foods that contain alpha-linolenic acid, a substance that your body converts into omega-3. Blood tests on women who eat fish and those who don't suggest that fish-avoiders become more efficient at converting alpha-linolenic acids into omega-3, boasting an omega-3 count only 10% lower than fish-eaters.
The best sources of this acid: canola and soybean oils, walnuts, tofu and flaxseed.
A study from England suggests that you may get nearly as much benefit from plant foods that contain alpha-linolenic acid, a substance that your body converts into omega-3. Blood tests on women who eat fish and those who don't suggest that fish-avoiders become more efficient at converting alpha-linolenic acids into omega-3, boasting an omega-3 count only 10% lower than fish-eaters.
The best sources of this acid: canola and soybean oils, walnuts, tofu and flaxseed.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
NOUNS
definition : used to name a person, animal, place, thing and abstract ideas.
definition : used to name a person, animal, place, thing and abstract ideas.
- noun gender
- refer to men / women
- example : author ( man ), authoress ( women )
- a noun / pronoun change its form to show that it owns / is closely related to something else.
- nouns become possessive by adding a combination of an apostrophe and the letter's.
- example : The effect of this legacy gives one of the power to a command a worldwide audience at one's fingertips.
- with a capital letter such as name of specific person, place or thing, names of day of the weeks, months, historical documents, institutions, organisations, religions, holy text.
- example : The most worthy of all hackers is probably the analyzer who at the mere age of seventeen successfully broke into the Pentagon files ( line 4 ).
- UK ( line 37 )
- Net ( line 5 )
- Internet ( line 16 )
- Japanese ( line 17 )
- Apple Computers ( line 18 )
- Taipei ( line 27 )
- Chernobyl ( line 27 )
- Asia ( line 28 )
- Middle East ( line 29 )
- Turkey ( line 29 )
- South Korea ( line 29 )
- Monday ( line 30 )
- referring to a person, place or thing in general sense.
- example : All that is needed is a computer and a telephone line ( line 4 ).
- when names anything ( or anyone ) that you can perceive through your physical sense ; touch, taste, hearing, see and smell.
- which names anything which you can not perceive through your five physical senses.
- a singular and plural form, and it names anything ( or anyone ) that you can count.
- example : The Net too has been linked as a source that has brought about an overall increase in crime all around the world ( line 43 ).
- students ( line 3 )
- individuals ( line 5 )
- causes ( line 10 )
- ideas ( line 12 )
- banks ( line 31 )
- computers ( line 20 )
- victims ( line 37 )
- does not have a plural form, and which refers to something that you could ( or would ) not usually count.
- example : Besides spreading top - secret information, the Net is also capable of spreading dangerous virus, which can only be detected after damage has been done ( line 25 ).
- noun naming a group of things, animals / person.
Monday, August 9, 2010
SINGULAR
definition : the form of word which express only one.
example :
definition : the form of word which express only one.
example :
- arrival : The arrival of the Internet has virtually redefined mankind ( line 1 ).
- has ( line 1 )
- communications ( line 2 )
- one ( line 2 )
- organisations ( line 6 )
- it ( line 9 )
- society ( line 9 )
- space ( line 9 )
- netizens ( line 15 )
- rumours ( line 16 )
- waves ( line 18 )
VERBS
definition : a word that expresses action or doing of same kind. It may also include a state of being.
Example :
definition : a word that expresses action or doing of same kind. It may also include a state of being.
Example :
- gives : The effect of this legacy gives one the power to command ( line 2 ).
- posted ( line 4 )
- aids ( line 5 )
- organisations ( line 6 )
- students ( line 6 )
- information ( line 5 )
- research ( line 6 )
- need ( line 6 )
- generated ( line 8 )
- own ( line 10 )
- be ( line 13 )
- may ( line 13 )
- publish ( line 12 )
- gets ( line 13 )
- eat ( line 13 )
- claimed ( line 17 )
- damaging ( line 18 )
- is ( line 23 )
- files ( line 24 )
- spreading ( line 25 )
- make ( line 30 )
- operate ( line 31 )
- realising ( line 32 )
- become ( line 34 )
- threaten ( line 34 )
- fielded ( line 36 )
- considered ( line 37 )
- overload ( line 38 )
- way ( line 39 )
- display ( line 40 )
- mutilation ( line 46 )
- site ( line 45 )
PRONOUN
definition : a word used in place of a noun or a name to avoid repetiton or clumsiness.
definition : a word used in place of a noun or a name to avoid repetiton or clumsiness.
- personal pronoun. Refer to :
- the speaker of speakers.
- person spoken to ; and.
- person or thing spoken of
- example : It has become a channel for some irresponsible users to champion ( line 9 ).
- relates an adjective clause to the noun or pronoun which is qualifies.
- points out the thing or person for which is stands.
- example : This gets even more ugly in today's ( line 13 ).
- show ownership or possession.
- example : Today, even ten or twelve - year - old minors can set up their own webpage ( line 11 ).
- ask a question. It is the same in form as the relative pronoun.
- example : Who at the mere age of seventeen successfully broke into the pentagon files ( line 24 ).
- reflects the subject. It stands for the same person or thing as the subject.
- example : In 1997, the British business fielded 794 million items of un solicited mail and 65 per cent of managers in the UK considered themselves as victims ( line 37 ).
- whose meaning is distributed over two or more things.
- example : The Net too has been linked as a source that has brought about an overall increase in crime all around the world ( line 43 ).
- no particular person or persons.
- example : The effect of this legacy gives one the power to command a worldwide audience at one's fingertips ( line 2 ).
PREPOSITIONS
definition : show a relationship between places, people and things.
definition : show a relationship between places, people and things.
- prepositions of place or positionn. Example : It generated shock waves and unnecessary damaging panic in the stock market and computer industry ( line 18 ).
- prepositions of direction. Example : The information from the Net aids numerous individuals and organisations ranging from students ( line 5 ).
- prepositions of time : Example : The effect of this legacy gives one the power to command a worldwide audience at one's fingertips ( line 2 ).
- prepositions of agent or source. Example : Large organisations have been crippled by irresponsible "netizens" ( lien 15 ).
- prepositions of accomplanishment. Example : Even individuals to operate using the Internet without first realising the risk ( line 31 ).
- preposotion used with means of transpot. Example : But no one can ignore what the Net has done and is capable of doing for mankind in the future ( line 48 ).
- prepositions of similarity. Example : The Net has, however, generated more critism than it can possibly handle ( line 8 ).
ARTICLES
Indefinitive articles are 'a' and 'an'
silent 'h'.
is used with the following :
Indefinitive articles are 'a' and 'an'
- 'a' used with singular countable nouns that begin with a constant sound.
- example : All that is needed is a computer and a telephona line ( line 3 ).
silent 'h'.
- example : An example of this was when an unidentified source ( line 16 ).
is used with the following :
- to refer to a specific person or object
- to refer to superlatives
- to refer to something or someone a second time
- to refer to something that is only one of its land
- to refer to a special class of people
- to refer to continues that begin with united or republic
- to refer to a range of mountains, group of islands, names of rivers.
- example : The information from the Net ais numerous individuals and organisations ( ine 5 ).
TENSES
PAST TENSE
PAST TENSE
- simple past tense : to express an action in the past. Example :There is more information posted on the Net than any library in the world ( line 4 ).
- past continuous tense : to mention something that happened at a particular time or over a period of time. Example : was, were,...ing
- past perfect tense : talks about the past in the past. Example : had eaten.
- past perfect continuous : show that something started in the past and continued up until another time in the past.
- simple present tense : for habitual actions, instructions, directions, describe feelings.
- present continuous tense :
- to show an action being done at the moment.
- to show a future action.
- to show a habitual action. It is used with words like 'always', 'after', 'constantly'.
- to refer to an action that is repeated many times.
- example : Workers everywhere today are handling volumes of which threaten to engulf them ( line 34 ).
- show a past action where the time is not mentioned.
- refers to an action that has been completed recently.
- refers to a past action that continuing to the present.
- example : When twenty - four - year - old Chen from Taipei created the Chernobyl computer virus with the aim to humiliate and take revenge on incompletent anti - virus software producer, disaster struck a number of countries in Asia and the Middle - East.
- an action that has just stopped / recently stopped.
- talk about an action that started in the past and stopped recently.
- simple future tense
- to express a future action
- to refer to a future action in conditional sentence
- to give commands or provide explanations
- in the passive form
- when an action takes place at the particular time in the future.
- to ask for something politely.
- to show an action that has not been planned.
- express action in the future before another action in the future.
- this is the past in the future.
- talk about a long action before some point on the future.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
ADJECTIVES
definition : is a describing word. It usually describes a noun or a pronoun.
TYPES :
definition : is a describing word. It usually describes a noun or a pronoun.
TYPES :
- adjective of quality or description : describe the look or quality or noun / pronoun.
- adjective of quantity : refer to amount or number.
- possessive pronoun : show belonging.
- interrogate adjectives : ask questions
- demonstrative adjectives : point out the noun. Example : This gets even more ugly in today's dog-eat-dog business ( line 13 ).
- Distributive adjectives : refer to nouns taken alone or in a group. Example : All that needed is a complete and telephone line ( line 3 ).
MODALS
definition : verb that cannot stand on their own. They must be accompanied by another verb to make the sentence complete.
example of modals :
Today, even ten or twelve - years - old minor can set up their own webpage ( line 11 ).
definition : verb that cannot stand on their own. They must be accompanied by another verb to make the sentence complete.
example of modals :
- can
- could
- will
- would
- must
- have to
- shall
- should
- ought to
- must ( has / have to )
Today, even ten or twelve - years - old minor can set up their own webpage ( line 11 ).
Friday, August 6, 2010
wHat's yoUr heart AttaCk riSk?
Doctors often look at weight to predict heart attack risk, but identifying people with metabolic syndrome, a newly recognized combination of health problems, may be a better predictor, say researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and other institutions.
Metabolic syndrome is defined as having at least three of the following: high blood pressure, blood sugar or triglycerides, low levels of HDL (the good cholesterol) and a fat midsection. In a four-year study of 780 women with suspected heart disease, those with metabolic syndrome, whether overweight or thin, were twice as likely to die or suffer a heart attack, stroke or congestive heart failure as those who didn't have it. Surprisingly, normal-weight women with metabolic syndrome had a higher risk than obese or overweight patients without it.
If you suspect you have metabolic syndrome, talk to your doctor. Exercise, weight loss and medication can help fight its damaging effect.
Metabolic syndrome is defined as having at least three of the following: high blood pressure, blood sugar or triglycerides, low levels of HDL (the good cholesterol) and a fat midsection. In a four-year study of 780 women with suspected heart disease, those with metabolic syndrome, whether overweight or thin, were twice as likely to die or suffer a heart attack, stroke or congestive heart failure as those who didn't have it. Surprisingly, normal-weight women with metabolic syndrome had a higher risk than obese or overweight patients without it.
If you suspect you have metabolic syndrome, talk to your doctor. Exercise, weight loss and medication can help fight its damaging effect.
Monday, August 2, 2010
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