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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Sectors That Benefit From Barcode Identification

There are various sectors that can benefit from the barcode method of identification. Mass production companies with barcode particular kinds of items can use barcode identification to analyze and identify them from the different products they produce.

This favors them by extremely increasing the quantity of production and moving of their products. The retail industry was greatly improved by the installation of the barcode. It helped to keep track of large number of items kept in stores, and resulted in reduction of shoplifting since shoplifters were not able to interchange price tags between low and high cost products. It also helped in considerable savings in stock taking and records of well-known items.

The use of barcodes also favored the consumer. Consumers now a days consider barcodes for granted, without realizing the amount of savings which are recognized from them using the supply chain. With the savings produced by barcodes, retailers can extremely reduce costs, favoring the consumer significantly.

Using passports with barcodes, has two important beneficiaries. The most important one is at airports and at border control. Border controls need that the traveler shows passports as an evidence of identification and to find where the passport holder has been on current travels. This helps in swift processing of the holder, instead of checking manually on a database, the information is available on the passport, and the code present at the bottom can be scanned to automatically input and find the passport information. With the passports and passport applications, the national government can keep record of immigration and emigration within the country.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Prohibited Substances In Sports

Sports people may abuse different types of substances to enhance their performance in their competitive games. In order to maintain sports ethics some substances are prohibited in sports. They are:

Stimulants: Stimulants like amphetamines are the common category of drugs which are mostly abused in sports. They energize the nervous system and enhances cardiovascular activity, decreasing tiredness and muscle fatigue, and increasing aggression, stamina and competitiveness.

Narcotics: Narcotics do not have considerable performance enhancing ability, but they are used to decrease pain and make athletes to progress in spite of injury like leg aches in long distance events. Banned substances are morphine, methadone and pethidine.

Anabolic androgenic steroids: Anabolic steroids are nandrolone, oxandrolone, stanozolol, testosterone, metenolone, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and associated substances. They improve performance by enhancing muscle size and strength, and make athletes to get trained harder and longer, with increased recovery between training sessions and boosts aggression and competitiveness.

Beta-2-agonists: Drugs like salbutamol and clenbuterol, when consumed orally, increase muscle mass enhancing muscular strength.

Diuretics: Diuretics like frusemide, bumetanide, chlorthalidone, triameterene, hydrochlorothiazide are more likely to be abused by those competing in weight classes like weight lifiting, boxing, wrestling and horse-racing, to attain quick weight loss. They are also used to improve activity of prohibited drugs to conceal their presence in the urine by creating a significant dilution.

Peptide hormones: Peptide hormones are also known as sports designer drugs and are mostly abused by athletes. Human chorinonic gonadotrophin (HCG) is taken to provoke the production of endogenous testosterone. Recent data from studies on weight lifters indicate that even though it increases lean body mass, it will not considerably increase muscular strength.

Monday, March 15, 2010

What Are Club Drugs?

Club drugs are a pharmacologically composite category of psychoactive compounds which are likely to be abused by teens and immature adults at a nightclub, bar, rave, or trance place. Few examples of club drugs are Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB), Rohypnol, and ketamine.

Raves and trance events are usually night-long dances, generally held in warehouses. Most of them who attend raves and trances will not use club drugs, but those who use drugs may be interested primarily in their low cost and the thrilling highs which are said to intensify the rave or trance experience.

Confusion regarding the sources, chemicals, and possible contaminants which are used to produce many club drugs make it highly difficult to detect toxicity and related medical consequences.
  • Coma and seizures can develop after the use of GHB. Combined use with other drugs like alcohol can cause nausea and breathing problems. GHB and couple of its precursors, gamma butyrolactone (GBL) and butanediol (BD), can cause poisonings, overdoses, date rapes, and deaths.
  • Rohypnol may be dangerous when combined with alcohol or other CNS depressants.
  • Ketamine overdoses, can result in defective motor function, high blood pressure, and possibly lethal respiratory problems.

Monday, March 8, 2010

Who is More Vulnerable to Drugs

We often see people who get attracted to drugs and become drug addicts. However there are some people who keep themselves away from the drugs. Why some people easily become drug addicts but why not others?

Vulnerability of a person towards harmful drug addiction differs from person to person as it the case with any other disease. A person who is more exposed to risk factors will have higher chances of abusing and addiction.

We cannot mention even a single factor that a person can become addict. It all depends on the situation and the environment. The overall risk for addiction towards drugs is influenced by their developmental stage, surrounding social environment such as conditions at home, school at the neighborhood.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Finding A Good Personal Trainer And Their Role

It is necessary to undergo fitness training compulsorily under the supervision of certified personal fitness trainer. These trainers will generally undergo personal trainer programs arranged by training schools and get certified. They are proficient in knowledge of personal health, sports and nutrition, and injury prevention. They also educate their clients regarding beneficial lifestyle development and help them to manage stress.

For personal training sessions extending more than thrice each week, generally for an hour or so, these personal fitness trainers will direct and monitor their clients in their workout, aerobics, and weight training. They also supervise the client’s body fat and heart rate to check their progress.

After becoming a certified personal trainer, students of a fitness training school or personal trainer school mahttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gify prefer to work in public gyms, health clubs, fitness center, country clubs, yoga or pilates studios, resorts, universities, clients’ homes, workplace gyms. Now a days certified personal trainers are available in several places like hospitals, spas, private health clubs, rehabilitation clinics, hospitals, cruise ships, resorts.

A good personal trainer has a number of skills. They are well organized, have patience, have an analytical mind, good motivating skills, and are good listeners. They must also be self-motivating and become a role model for their clients.