Factor IX

Question: What is the most important factor in explaining the increasing gender gap in college completion? In 1972, the U.S. Department of Education passed Title IX, which intended to redress gender inequality in schools. Men and women reached parity with respect to college graduation in 1982. Since then, women have overtaken men - in 2004 women earned 58% of Bachelor's degrees awarded in the United States. What specific factor(s) have led to this dramatic change? Opinions are fine, but if you can actually provide some evidence to support your answer, that would be even better.

Answer: Access. For example, in 1972, although I qualified for a prestigious science and technology scholarship and degree program, I was not allowed to attend because I was female. It is most difficult to complete college if one is not allowed to attend college. With access, women have opportunity. What any student does with academic opportunity is dependent upon individual character AND current acculturated role expectations that burden and influence both sexes directly and indirectly, and acculturated behaviors including work ethic, motivation, self-drive, delayed adolescence (which hobbles males more than females), emotional stability (beer kegger / video game / Internet addictions are blamed for some of the statistical decline in male academic performance) and response to economic and military events, such as 9/11 and the war in Iraq, which traditionally correlates with declines in male academic performances.

Question: Question regarding hemophilia A and B? I know that Hemophilia A is the Factor VIII deficiency and that Hemophilia B is a Factor IX deficiency but other than that I am having trouble telling the two apart-what is the difference between the two? Thanks for any and all help!

Answer: When it comes to Hemophilia factor 8 or factor 9 just means that is the factor that the person with hemophilia is lacks or has below a normal amount. For example a person who has hemophilia factor 8 would be given factor 8 plasma to stop a bleed ( I am putting this in the simplest terms). It is important to note that factor 8 is FAR more common than factor 9.

Question: antidote for thrombolytics? I am working on some project for school and I cannot find the antidote for thrombolytics. I read somewhere that it is activated coagulation factor IX, but I only read it on one source so I'm not sure how credible the information is. Any ideas? When you are giving anything that can prolong bleeding time, it is crucial to monitor the labs and be prepared to administer an antidote if needed if the drug level is not therapeutic. I just couldn't find the answer in my drug books or textbook!

Answer: Activated factor IX does not work as it is too far up the coagulation cascade. The two most comonly used drugs to reverse thrombolysis are Tranexamic acid and Aprotinin both of which inhibit fibrinolysis. Also most thrombolytics are given as single boluses and completely overwhelm the clotting cascade. Checking the "labs" is therefore pointless as the blood will not clot... Most thrombolytics are fortunately short acting with halflives of ~1hr. The exception is streptokinase which is longer acting. Occasionally streptokinase is given as an infusion to breakdown pulmonary emboli in this case 72 hrs of 100,000units per hr. Checking clotting tests is useful in this instance to confirm adeqaute anticoagulation. Note vitamin K is not useful to reverse thrombolysis as it takes at least 24 hrs to have any effect and really only acts on the liver to increase the production of clotting factors (but also protein C and protein S, anticoagulants) and has no effect onthrombolysis per se.

Question: Inhaled 2-3mm IX Resin Bead (Polystyrene)? I possibly could have inhaled a small 2-3mm ix resin bead about a month ago at my job. When I was tying up the plastic bag full or resin, I was compressing it to make it smaller. When I did this a large source of air came out with resin beads, hitting my face. I realize that it is a very small chance for me to have breathed one of these in, but what would happen if I did? Would the body break it down? I also realize that my nasal passages probably would have filtered it since it is a couple of millimeters. I have no symptoms or anything, and when I looked on the MSDS, the toxicity is 0, and there are no precautionary factors. Obviously, I tend to worry about dumb stuff, but any help is appreciated.

Answer: If it's been a month, I would say that you probably didn't inhale one. The body would make an attempt to attack it, which would have caused symptoms. My friend once inhaled a peanut... yes a peanut. She said that she could feel it rattling in her chest every time she breathed. They were able to remove it with a scope. Anyways, if you are truly concerned, call you doctor and ask for his or her professional medical advice.

Question: Give any three empathy statements, When and why should we acknowledge the customer? 9. Write and describe in detail any 5 key factors of quality customer service Frame a sentence using the following words. i. Appreciate ii. Apologize iii. Warranty iv. Feedback v. Valuable vi. Frustration vii. Understand viii. Certainly ix. Assurance x. Additionally

Answer: First of all, let me tell you I understand that you are frustrated. I do appreciate that you have been so patient. I apologize that what you ordered isn't what you got. I am certainly going to look into this matter and find out how this mistake occurred. You have my assurance that I will find out what happened, additionally, I will do my best to make it right for you. You are valuable to me, as a customer, and I will do what I can do to fix this. Thank you for your time and I do apologize again for the inconvenience to you.

Question: Hemophilia B (Christmas Disease) question? What are the effects of not getting your Factor IX injection in a timely manner when there is bleeding in the joints?

Answer: Looked it up. Serious bleeding and truma. So get those shots. And the only way to operate would be by sugery. Best of luck

Question: Understanding the skeptic IX: Self-fulfilling prophecy? This quote is taken from "Scientific Defense of Astrology" website: "Individuals often fall prey to self-fulfilling prophecy - if they think something will happen, they subtly cause it to happen . If you wake up expecting a bad day - guess what? (this phenomenon is well harnessed living with "power of positive thinking")" This is a listed as a human factor that assists the belief in astrology. Do you believe that the "self-fulfilling" prophesy theory is applicable to astrological precepts? If so, why/why not? Thank you in advance.

Answer: I suppose it could be a factor in the case of predictive astrology, however this still doesn't disprove astrology as it can be used just as effectively to observe the conditions of the individual's past and present as it can be used to predict possible trends in the individual's future.

Question: Which two factors that determine the physical state of a substance ? Chemistry IX

Answer: physical state of a substance depends on. 1. pressure on the substance 2. volume of the substance 3. temperature on the substance.

Question: Jehovah's Witnesses can not store their own blood, but they can use...? the Haemophiliac treatments Factor VIII & IX - but this treatment is only made available through the storage of up to 2500 blood donor contributions, and this only makes ONE treatment and several treatments may be necessary So isn’t this contradictory and in defiance to the ‘none storage of blood’ policy of the Watchtower GB? How do they reconcile these facts with their beliefs and doctrines? Annsan: Why do we never get an informed reasonable logical answer to these questions. why do they just beat around the bush and never actually answer the question

Answer: It's very sad to see JW answers here totally missing the point of your question - either through ignorance or a desire to change the subject. One JW clearly does not know what haemophilia is. She could benefit from reading an account of a haemophiliac who became a JW. That's in the Awake! 22 June 1987. He'd previously had over 900 blood transfusions but immediately stopped having them when he became a JW. He had Factor VIII instead despite each treatment requiring 2,500 units of stored blood! (See The Watchtower 15 June 1985, p 20 and Awake! 22 June 1982 p 25.) How fortunate for this man that the Society had widened the goalposts just a few years earlier! Other JWs are going on about blood fractions being permitted, probably without realising they were forbidden not so long ago. And they are completely ignoring the principle of storing blood involved in haemophiliac treatments! I'd be hard pressed to come up with a more blinkered approach than this - JWs have died for lack of being able to store their OWN blood for their OWN treatment, yet millions of pints of other peoples' blood has been stored in order for a few heamophiliac JWs to receive life-or-death treatment! There can be no reconciliation of the principles involved here. JWs are violating their own beliefs.

Question: Do Jehovah's Witnesses really abstain from blood; take two? Many JW's believe that it is a gross sin to accept a blood transfusion, since the bible states that we must "...abstain from blood.." Acts 15:29. But do they really abstain from blood? The WTB&TS have changed their policy concerning blood, they now condone the use of blood COMPONENTS, such as Albumin (erythropoietins), Immunoglobulins, and the Hemophiliac treatments Factor VIII & IX - This treatment is only available by the storage of 2500 blood donors contributions, and this only makes ONE treatment. this is in defiance to the, none storage of blood policy of TWTS - Plasma constitutes 55% of your blood, they are not allowed plasma, but they are allowed the components of plasma??? Albumin makes up 2.2% of your blood ( yes), but platelets are only 0.17% theyr'e No! Why was this u-turn on the blood policy allowed to happen? you are either abstaining from blood or you are not? also what do all the JW's that had children die, due to the blood policy, feel about this change in doctrine don't you think it is time to drop this policy altogether, so that more children won't die for your faith. I have more info on this but I wanted to keep it short this time, If you want more info just e-mail me and I will send it too you

Answer: This isn't the only bad medical advice given the Watchtower by gross misinterpretation of Scripture. Organ transplants, vaccines and blood tranfusions have all been forbidden by the Watchtower Society. Their beliefs on these issues (and many others) are ever-changing. What I want to know is this: Has the Watchtower Society ever apologized or compensated the families who lost their loved ones, unnecessarily? Since their past misinterprestations of Scripture led to many unnecessary deaths, why would anyone trust their interpretation on blood laws today? Isn't it possible that they are wrong about this, too? (I am CERTAIN they are!) Watchtower 1986 June 1 p.15 http://www.quotes-watchtower.co.uk/heart… http://www.wfial.org/index.cfm?fuseactio…