(Business law) A Woman’s Healthy Reproductive System-Sex Education
No commentsBy jane carrasco
Your reproductive system is extremely sensitive and without a healthy reproductive system, it can be very difficult to get pregnant. Many women suffer from infertility. Seeing a physician and having regular pap smears and breast exams are important steps in keeping your reproductive system healthy.
The slightest hormonal imbalance can disrupt the reproductive system which is why it is so important to take care of it. Some factors that can seriously impair your reproductive health include: endometriosis, PCOS , pelvic prolapse, pelvic inflammatory disease, and cervical cancer.
The organs of the reproductive system are:
Uterus- Also called the womb, the uterus is a hollow, pear shaped organ with a muscular wall and a lining. The uterus expands many times in size during pregnancy to hold the growing fetus.
Fallopian Tubes- These thin, soft tubes extend from the uterus to the ovaries. During ovulation, an ovary releases an egg into the fallopian tube next to it.
Ovaries– The ovaries are located in the left and right lower abdomen. Ovaries produce eggs as well as hormones like estrogen and progesterone.
Cervix– The cervix is the lower portion of the uterus that opens into the vagina. During labor, the cervix dilates (expands) to about 4 inches (10 centimeters) in diameter.
Vagina– This tube-like organ connects the uterus to the outside of the body. The birth of a baby follows it’s path.
Hymen– The hymen (also called maidenhead) is a fold of mucous membrane which surrounds or partially covers the external vaginal opening. It forms part of the vulva, or external genitalia.
Menstruation, or “period,” is the term given to a woman’s periodic discharge of blood, tissue, fluid and mucus from the reproductive organs of sexually mature females. The flow usually lasts from 3 - 6 days each month and is caused by a sudden reduction in the hormones estrogen and progesterone.
When girls begin to go through puberty (usually starting between the ages of 8 and 13), their bodies and minds change in many ways. The hormones bodies stimulate new physical development, such as growth and breast development. Roughly 2 years after a girl’s breasts begin to develop, she usually gets her first menstrual period.
A woman is fertile only for a few days during each menstrual cycle and once ovulation has occurred, there is only a 24 hour period in which fertilization can take place. The reproductive process begins with the ovary releasing an egg and setting it off on it’s journey down the fallopian tube towards the uterus. In the fallopian tube, it begins to produce an enzyme that helps attract the sperm from the males ejaculation.
A man releases millions of sperm when he ejaculates but only a few hundred will be able to make it all the way from the cervix up into the uterus and then into the correct fallopian tube. Once there, only one sperm will then be able to make its way through the eggs tough coating to fertilize the egg.
After fertilization, the egg continues into the uterus where it implants itself into the endometrial lining and officially becomes an embryo.
A missed menstrual period is most often the first sign of pregnancy, but typically, additional symptoms and signs are experienced in the early stages of pregnancy. These include:
-Breast swelling, tenderness, and pain
-Nausea and vomiting
-Fatigue and tiredness
-Abdominal boating
-Frequent urination
-Elevated basal body temperature
-Changes in nipple color
-Melasma (darkening of the skin)
-Mood swings and stress
Sometimes a woman who is pregnant may still experience some bleeding or spotting around the time of the expected period. This small amount of bleeding commonly that occurs at the time of the expected menstrual period may be implantation bleeding. This occurs when the fertilized egg attaches to the uterine wall. It’s important to remember that not all women will experience all of these symptoms or have the symptoms to the same degree.
An at home pregnancy can tell whether or not there is a pregnancy as early as the first day of the missed period, which is about two weeks after conception. You should schedule a doctors appointment and get a check up and pregnancy test as soon as possible if you think you might be pregnant.
Pregnancy tests are based upon measurement of the hormone which is only present in a woman when she is pregnant, human chorionic gonadotrophin, or hCG. This hormone is made after the egg is fertilized and its levels rise rapidly in early pregnancy. It acts to support progesterone, a hormone necessary to maintain the pregnancy.
Unfortunately, things don’t always work as mother nature intended. Infertility effects many women for many different reasons. If you have any signs that things might not feel right or if you are having any issues with your menstrual periods, contact physician and have an exam.
Jane Carrasco has created a site where you can learn more about reproductive health and other women’s health issues. This article was originally posted at GoodLife4Women.
ONLINE TUTORS: TUTORING HELP FOR STUDENTS
By Alicia Beg
Telepresence requires that the senses of the user, or users, are provided with such stimuli as to give the feeling of being in that other location. Additionally, the user(s) may be given the ability to affect the remote location. Therefore information may be travelling in both directions between the user and the remote location.
Telephony allowed us to hear and interact with people far away; television brought us pictures from a distance. By combining the interactivity of telephones, the visual environments of television, the virtual environments of cyber world, and new kinds of information systems, it is now feasible to develop telepresence systems.
The ongoing revolution in computing infrastructure is having a profound effect on the entire process of education. Not only is technology being used to extend educational opportunities to populations and communities previously underserved, but it is also transforming the way and form in which learners are absorbing knowledge. Some fundamental aspects and motivations remain unchanged, however. The technological innovations are rapidly revolutionizing our traditional methods of education, transforming and enhancing these basic notions of classrooms, laboratories, discussion groups and books.
It is well-known that the effectiveness of classroom teaching diminishes in proportion to the number of students in a class. Once a class size reaches more than about 25 students, several deteriorations occur. The interactivity in class decreases dramatically and the instructor loses any personal touch with the class. Not every teacher or professor possesses the talent to explain the material well. And with other pressures mounting, many instructors are either not experts in their class material or are not good performers in class, or are not interested in teaching.
The Multiple Perspective Interactive system allows interactive viewing of the classroom, and works both in live and archival modes. The live mode allows any person anywhere to be telepresent in the class and participate in it.
A student can be observing reactions of other students physically present in the classroom while the instructor is explaining some complex concepts. A remote student can electronically copy the contents of the classroom material, including what is displayed on the board. In fact, a student may give instructions to automatically store everything that is displayed on the board, and concentrate fully on understanding the material being presented. A remote student can ask questions in class at any time
another interesting implication of using MPI video technology may be that classes given by an excellent instructor on the topic will become timeless. Thus, lectures by an excellent instructor will be available to students to review even after the lecturer is no longer alive. In present scenario very few websites are providing this facility. http://www.tutorbene.com is one of them. You can take a tour of this website. It is providing free demo for few minutes to help you understand the concept better and make you aware of the ongoing advancements in todays education scenario.
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College and Higher Education Grants for Women
By Charles Bretz
Today, the situation is such that only a few women students out of the whole lot are actually able to fulfill their dreams with respect to college education.
It’s a known fact that only the rich sections of the society can have any chance at all of getting higher education. Unfortunately, The number of such rich and the famous people in the society are very less. The price of any of the private 4-year colleges on an average is around $20000/academic year.
Just try dividing this figure in to half. You would then have an average tuition with public university. Further, a formidable tuition can be obtained at the community college by paying even half of the above half.
College grants are being devised with the purpose of making educational funds as minimum as possible, available to monetarily needy women students for helping in defraying the price of college education. The students going on to seek the money provide through grant might start by having searched for the grants by subject-specific and student-type grants.
Grants-entirely different from student loans and scholarships
Grants are discretely different from student loans as well as scholarships such that they are nothing but free gift amount. Hence, unlike the student loans which ought to be repaid- primarily requirement-based, in comparison with conventionally merit-based scholarships.
Grant categories
Grants might be divided in to the searchable categories including student-specific, degree level, minority, and subject-specific.
Common sources
Common sources in terms of grant funding include state and Federal governments, universities and colleges, private and public organizations. As majority of the recipients of grants are either monetarily impaired or disadvantaged by some or the other means, there’re several grants that are designed especially for the minorities, along with low-income students.
Federal grants
Federal government has been putting additional money in to hands of the college students which was never to be seen before. Most of impetus behind all this is No Child Left Behind Act.
These measures help in the assurance that more and more primary as well as secondary schools have to be held accountable for ensuring that kids get education and attention that they deserve, that too, without any prejudices. In other words, much of the high-school students have been earning diplomas.
There are more students standing a chance to attend college when proper social and financial resources have been made available for them, with the educators having experience and know-how of guiding them towards right choices regarding career and academics.
There are certain federal grant programs offering lakhs of students the essential assistance for making college a monetary reality. These grants can be availed of by women as well.
Women-specific grants
Since ages, women have been disregarded on majority of college campuses. Several educators have a tendency of arguing that women aren’t as active on coeducational campus as on women-oriented campus. Private colleges for women are continuing to thrive.
The credit of this survival should go to generosity on the part of innovative curricula, corps of the alumnae, and the expanded programs like athletics which round out an entire educational experience.
Grant programs specifically designed for women perform the task of promoting participation of theirs in the underrepresented programs of graduation like business, mathematics, and sciences.
Charles Bretz has been associated with Government Grants as an advisor and consultant. To find out more on how to receive Free Government Grants visit Government Grants USA. Click Here
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