Narcolepsy the French "narcolepsie". The French term was first used in 1880 by Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Gélineau, who used the Greek νάρκη ("narkē"), meaning "numbness", and λῆψις ("lepsis") meaning "attack". There are two main characteristics of narcolepsy: excessive daytime sleepiness and abnormal REM sleep. The first, excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), occurs even after adequate night time sleep. A person with narcolepsy is likely to become drowsy or fall asleep, often at inappropriate times and places, or just be very tired throughout the day. Narcoleptics are not able to experience the amount of restorative deep sleep that healthy people experience – they are not
Tendency of the rate of profit to fall profit on production capital, quite regardless of market fluctuations or financial constructions. So Marx regarded this as a general tendency in the development of the capitalist mode of production. But it was only a "tendency", because there are also "counteracting factors" operating which had to be studied also. The counteracting factors were factors that would normally raise the rate of profit. In his draft manuscript edited by Friedrich Engels (Marx did not publish it himself), Marx cited six of them: Nevertheless, Marx thought the countervailing tendencies ultimately could not prevent the average rate of profit in industries from falling; the