Cause/effect writing

As to natural efficient causes, Avicenna writes in some places that these precede mutaqaddim) their effects but this shoidd not be taken at face value, for in the final analysis they too in fact must be simidtaneous with their effects. A natural efficient cause is simultaneous with the motion it produces, which strictly speaking is its true effect This motion, which of coiuse takes place in time, may eventually engender preparedness in a substrate to receive a new form, which will then come to be and may subsequently continue to exist The true agent of this new form will be a metaphysical efficient cause, rather than the cause of motion. So, a natural cause is simidtaneous with its true effect which is motion, but it precedes the effect to which it serves only as an accidental or auxiliary cause, which is the form. ... 

Aniracetam (6), launched in 1993 in both Japan and Italy for the treatment of cognition disorders, is in Phase II trials in the United States as of this writing. In clinical studies it has been shown to cause some improvement in elderly patients with mild to moderate mental deterioration (63), and in geriatric patients with cerebral insufficiency (64). In a multicenter double-blind placebo-controUed trial involving 109 patients with probable AD, positive effects were observed in 36% of patients after six months of treatment (65), a result repeated in a separate study of 115 patients (66). A review of the biological and pharmacokinetic properties, and clinical results of aniracetam treatment in cognitively impaired individuals is available (49). 

According to David Johnson, a psychologist writing about the effects of color, Peaceful, tranquil blue causes the body to produce calming chemicals, so it is often used in bedrooms. Blue can also be cold and depressing. Fashion consultants recommend wearing blue... 

M.10 Nicotine, the stimulant in tobacco, causes a very complex set of physiological effects in the body. It is known to have a molar mass of 162 g-mol. When a sample of mass 0.385 g was burned, 1.072 g of carbon dioxide, 0.307 g of water, and 0.068 g of nitrogen were produced. What are the empirical and molecular formulas of nicotine Write the equation for its combustion. 

The conventional view of depression is that it is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. The basis for this idea was the belief that antidepressant drugs were effective treatments. Our analyses showing that most - if not all - of the effects of these medications are really placebo effects challenges this widespread view of depression. In Chapter 41 examine the chemical-imbalance theory. You may be surprised to leam that it is actually a rather controversial theory and that there is not much scientific evidence to support it. While writing this chapter I came to an even stronger conclusion. It is not just that there is not much supportive evidence rather, there is a ton of data indicating that the chem-... 

It should be emphasized that the approach to equilibrium by a Tx process, in which Mz approaches M0, also causes Mx and My to approach zero. Thus, the T2 of eqn (5.5) must include both the effects of spin-lattice relaxation as well as the dephasing of the transverse magnetization. Transverse relaxation is often much faster than spin-lattice relaxation and T2 is then determined mostly by spin dephasing. In general, however, we should write ... 

Coffee Use. Table V focuses on the relationship of coffee use to the same six causes of death considered on previous tables. Approximately 70% of the Adventists in this study use no coffee. However, 17% drink two or more cups of coffee per day and 10% limit their intake to one cup per day. The "no coffee" category includes 362 subjects who report occasional coffee use (less than one cup per day). They were combined with subjects who indicated their coffee use as "0" cups per day. All subjects in the occasional use category took the effort to write a note to this effect on their questionnaire. We suspect many more subjects who really belong in the occasional use category simply recorded their use as "0" cups per day because it approximates their use closer than "1 cup per day". 

The last phrase is critical Whatever you choose to write about (the cause ), you must show its impact upon you (the effect ). Your experience need not be earth-shattering remember that small and seemingly insignificant can be better You are guaranteed to write an original essay if you focus on something that you alone experienced or find significance in. 

Whenever you write about cause and effect, keep in mind that most events have more than one cause, and most actions generate more than one effect. 

An expository essay gives directions, instructions, or explanations. It informs by presenting the writer s knowledge about the topic to the reader. You might be asked to define, compare and/or contrast, or explain cause and effect. In fact, think of the verbs used in your topic as key words that clue you in to the fact that you are being asked to write an expository essay. These key words include ... 

The recent and future development of sulfur supplies in the Middle East tends to emphasize the resulting regional concept for sulfur supply/demand. However, as in North America, the rising production of involuntary sulfur has caused a drop in the amount of native pyrite sulfur produced. Table 2 shows recent past and estimated trends in several Middle Eastern countries. The future of by-product sulfur from oil and gas operations is very uncertain at the time of this writing (October 1980) because of the Iran-Iraq war and its effect on near-by countries. 

We shall assume that the fall of the heats of chemisorption and the rise of the activation energies are caused by the surface potential effect (Secs. IX,4,6,9, and 13) and that these changes vary linearly with 0. If we now also assume that the dipoles of both sorts of chemisorbed atoms are directed in the same sense (hence either both are positive or negative), it is a logical consequence that the decrease in the heat of chemisorption of species 2 caused by the dipoles of species 1 is the same as the decrease that the dipoles of species 1 cause in the heat of chemisorption of their own species. And we shall, therefore, also assume that the activation energies of both species are influenced in the same way by the dipole layers of both species. Both activation energies and heats of chemisorption depend, therefore, on the sum of the degrees of occupation of both species (0 -f- 02). Consequently we can write... 

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