Effect of Color on Behavior

Are you planning to repaint your house? Psychologists believes that colors has effect on behavior. According to Maria Simonson, Ph.D., Sc.D., a behaviorist, the color you pick for a room will have some sort of effect on its occupants. In fact, it has been found out that kids learn better in brightly colored rooms.

So, if you want to have a relaxing dinning room and you are staying in cool climates, better paint your dining room with off-white, tan, pale gold or beige color. And, if you are staying in a warmer climate, better paint your it with cool blue or green color. But, if you want your family’s appetite especially kids’ appetite to be stimulated better paint it with warm colors like yellow, orange or red.

If you want to have a good night sleep or an optimal sleeping conditions, pale pink, mauve and lavender colors are great for cooler climates. Pale blue, pale green and beige are good relaxing colors for those with hot climates. If you are suffering from lack of sleep, why not repaint your room?

Color your rooms to make it more homey to the occupants than just an ordinary room because color could greatly affect one’s behavior.

The Physical Examination of Urine

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The physical examination of urine consist of the determination of urine color, clarity or transparency, and specific gravity. Examination of these characteristics provides initial information concerning disorders such as glomerular bleeding, liver disease, inborn error of metabolism, and urinary tract infection.

COLOR
The urine color ranges from almost colorless to black. These variations may be due to ingested materials, physical activity, normal metabolic functions, or pathologic conditions. Common reporting of normal urine color may vary slightly among laboratories, it includes straw, pale yellow, light yellow, yellow, dark yellow and amber.

The yellow color of urine is due largely to the presence of a pigment called urochrome. Uroerythrin (pink color) and urobilin (orange-brown color) pigments are also present in urine but in smaller quantities and contribute little to the color of normal, fresh urine. Because urochrome is excreted at a continuous and steady rate, the intensity of the yellow color in a fresh urine specimen gives a rough assessment of urine concentration. A dilute urine will be pale yellow and a concentrated sample will be dark yellow.

Colors like straw, pale yellow, yellow, dark yellow and amber will not always signify normal urine, it can be pathologic too. Orange, yellow-green, yellow-brown, green, blue-green, pink, red, brown, black are some of the colors of pathologic or abnormal urine samples.

TRANSPARENCY
Color and transparency or clarity are routinely checked at the same time by visibly examining the mixed urine specimen, that is placed in a clear container, in front of a light source. Common description of urine color includes clear, hazy, cloudy, turbid,and milky.

Fresh voided normal urine is typically clear and transparent, especially if it is midstream clean-catch specimen. Nonpathologic or normal causes of urine turbidity is maybe due to any of the following: squamous epithelial cells; mucus; amorphous urates, phosphates, or carbonates; fecal contamination; semen or spermatozoa; radiographic contrast media; talcum powder; or vaginal creams.

Pathologic or abnormal causes of urine turbidity is maybe due to any of the following: red blood cells, white blood cells, bacteria, yeast, non-squamous epithelial cells, abnormal crystals, lymph fluids, or lipids.

SPECIFIC GRAVITY
It is an assessment of the kidney’s ability to reabsorb vital chemicals and water. It aids in the assessment of renal tubular function. Normal random urine samples may range from 1.003 to 1.035, depending on the patient’s  amount of hydration.  Most random samples  fall between 1.015 and 1.025.