|
Author Question: Which component of a vision statement is used less often by managers? A) Becoming number one in ... (Read 44 times) |
When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
Dogs have been used in studies to detect various cancers in human subjects. They have been trained to sniff breath samples from humans that were collected by having them breathe into special tubes. These people included 55 lung cancer patients, 31 breast cancer patients, and 83 cancer-free patients. The dogs detected 54 of the 55 lung cancer patients as having cancer, detected 28 of the 31 breast cancer patients, and gave only three false-positive results (detecting cancer in people who didn't have it).
Alzheimer's disease affects only about 10% of people older than 65 years of age. Most forms of decreased mental function and dementia are caused by disuse (letting the mind get lazy).