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Choose a page number: 1 Philosophy of Science RSS FeedsCognitive Vigilance, Stress, and Addiction - How does catching our own errors and correcting them protect us from stress? Can doing so also protect us from addiction?Tags: addiction, anxiety and stress, drug abuse, mindful awareness ...Feed Source: counsellingresource.com On Anger and Letting off Steam - Is anger a finite substance that can be let out or kept in, which "goes off" if it is kept in, and feels good and constructive to let out? Is any kind of emotional energy like that?Tags: anger, anxiety and stress, mindful awareness
... New Service at MyTherapist: Real Therapy, Online - Our new sister site, MyTherapist.com, launches today!Tags: online mental health, site news, therapy
... Consensual Living ? and the Life Changing Effect of Parenthood - Consensual Living is a philosophy, or collection of principles, by which families get along together without coercion, addressing everybody's needs on an equal basis. The basic principles as I understand them are equality, trust and self determination.Tags: consensual living, parenting and children
... Women and ?Self-Esteem? ? Are You the Protagonist? - Sometimes I am struck in my work as a therapist by how many strong, talented, intelligent, creative, loving women have a tendency to live as if their lives didn?t matter.Tags: self-esteem, women
... What is the Difference Between a Psychiatrist and God? - The answer? At least God knows he is not a psychiatrist. Dinesh Bhugra, the new President of the Royal College of Psychiatry, UK, has recently stated that he would not himself use an acute psychiatric ward, nor allow any of his family to be placed there.Tags: discrimination, psychiatry, public health, stigma
... The Second Wave of Grief - Somehow I managed to ride through the shock, the agony, the chaos and emptiness and finally a kind of saying goodbye, and a kind of acceptance, and she fell into a different place in my life. But now, a few months on — after all that work I did — she’s still dead!Tags: bereavement, death
... Placebo Pills for Children - A company in the USA produces children's placebo tablets, cure-alls containing absolutely no active substances, selling in effect the illusion that there is a pill for every kind of distress.Tags: medications, parenting and children, placebo
... On Therapy and Weeding - Is this what therapy is about — just removing what is holding us back, what stops us growing properly, what hides our beauty and is sometimes downright painful? Well, if nothing was planted in the first place, then removing the weeds would only make room for more weeds Tags: bereavement, mindful awareness, therapy
... Chop Wood, Carry Water: Zen and Coping with Bereavement - I know what I am talking about is almost too personal to be articulated properly and also something that everyone either has or will have gone through at some time in their lives.Tags: bereavement, mindful awareness, zen
... This Week in Science - Coral Reefs Under Threat | Aberration-Corrected Electron Microscopy | Small RNAs and the Argonautes | A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words | Phase Transitions in Bismuth | Birth of the Cool | Increasing Thermopower Through Scattering | Brassinosteroid Signaling | Crystal Clear Hydrogenation | Dissecting a Garbage Disposal Mechanism | Manipulating Mitochondria | Pairing and Repairing... Editors' Choice - VIROLOGY: Modeling Microbicides | CHEMISTRY: Blue, Yellow, and Gold | BIOCHEMISTRY: Curvy Carbohydrates | APPLIED PHYSICS: Unscintillating Conversation | CELL BIOLOGY: Moving Through a Crowd | BIOMEDICINE: Editing T Cells | PHYSIOLOGY: Fast Rising Hormone... Science Scope - Fighting for Peace | Ruling Protects Wolves | Chips Ahoy | Hello, Fellows | Monkey See, Monkey (No) Do... Random Samples - THE MASTER'S TOUCH | WOLVES WANTED | POLE TO POLE | BAD AIR DAY?... Newsmakers - PIONEERS | THEY SAID IT | IN BRIEF | UPDATE | SLICE OF LIFE... [EDITORIAL] HIV/AIDS in Latin America - Author: Luis E. Soto-Ramírez... [NEWS] AIDS VACCINE RESEARCH: Thumbs Down on Expensive, Hotly Debated Trial of NIH AIDS Vaccine - When he scuttled plans for a $63 million AIDS vaccine efficacy trial last week, Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, challenged researchers to come up with a "lean and mean" alternative.Author: Jon Cohen... [NEWS] SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT: New Purdue Panel Faults Bubble Fusion Pioneer - After two previous investigations of scientific misconduct by "bubble fusion" pioneer Rusi Taleyarkhan, a third panel has now cited Taleyarkhan for two cases of misconduct for his efforts to make experiments carried out by members of his lab appear as independent verification of his previous work.Author: Robert F. Service... [NEWS] SCIENCE IN JAPAN: Paper Retraction Puts Focus on Informed Consent Rules - Stung by a front-page newspaper exposé of an alleged lapse in research ethics, officials at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Medical Science are planning to overhaul efforts to educate researchers on ethics rules and tighten internal review and compliance procedures.Author: Dennis Normile... [NEWS] SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS: Europe's Science Gathering Draws Crowds and Long-Term Funds - This year's Euroscience Open Forum saw twice as many participants as attended the 2006 edition in Munich--some 4500 from 66 countries, including about 400 journalists--more sessions, and a greater variety of big names.Author: Martin Enserink... [NEWS] WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE: Lessons of Disasters Past Could Guide Sichuan's Revival - Two months after an earthquake devastated a mountainous swath of Sichuan Province, urban planning experts met in Beijing to take stock of how past disaster responses could guide a massive reconstruction effort about to get under way.Author: Richard Stone... [NEWS] U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: EPA Calls for More Studies on Health Risks of Climate Change - Last week, a new report by the U.S. government's climate change science program outlined a research road map to help Americans adapt to a warmer climate.Author: Eli Kintisch... [NEWS FOCUS] ASTRONOMY: From Atop a Mountain, A Deeper Look at the Sun - The world's largest solar telescope could help answer long-standing questions about our nearest star. But with environmental opposition and budgetary challenges, will it get built?Author: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee... [NEWS FOCUS] U.S. RESEARCH EARMARKS: Building a Scientific Legacy on a Controversial Foundation - Most scientists deplore the practice. But the first wave of congressional earmarks for academic research created two centers that have stood the test of time.Author: Jeffrey Mervis... [NEWS FOCUS] PLANETARY SCIENCE: Water Everywhere on Early Mars But Only for a Geologic Moment? - Planetary scientists pursuing water and life on Mars must reconcile mounting evidence of a young planet awash in life-sustaining water with a growing realization that the martian surface was likely almost always dry.Author: Richard A. Kerr... [NEWS FOCUS] BEHAVIOR GENETICS ASSOCIATION: Voting: In Your Genes? - At the Behavior Genetics Association meeting, a political scientist presented evidence that DNA has a hand in the intensity of people's partisan political attachments and even in whether they bother to vote.Author: Constance Holden... [NEWS FOCUS] BEHAVIOR GENETICS ASSOCIATION: The Sociable Brain - A recent test of the "social brain theory," which suggests that human brain size was selected in particular for capabilities that are useful in social groups, found no correlation between IQ and number of friendships, according to results presented at the Behavior Genetics Association meeting.Author: Constance Holden... [NEWS FOCUS] BEHAVIOR GENETICS ASSOCIATION: Do Good Sperm Predict a Good Brain? - In work presented at the Behavior Genetics Association meeting, researchers found a low but significant correlation between IQ and sperm quality.Author: Constance Holden... [LETTERS] Retraction - Authors: J. M. Geremia, John K. Stockton, Hideo Mabuchi... [LETTERS] Doubts About GM Crops - Author: Phil Mitchell... [LETTERS] Italy Not Alone in Science System Woes - Author: Martina Vendrame... [LETTERS] Leave Regulation to the FDA - Author: Owen C. B. Hughes... [TECHNICAL COMMENT] Comment on ?Major Australian-Antarctic Plate Reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor Bend Time? - Authors: Anahita A. Tikku, Nicholas G. Direen... [TECHNICAL RESPONSE] Response to Comment on ?Major Australian-Antarctic Plate Reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor Bend Time? - Authors: J. M. Whittaker, R. D. Müller, G. Leitchenkov, H. Stagg, M. Sdrolias, C. Gaina, A. Goncharov... [BOOKS ET AL.] TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY: Avoiding a Cliff Dive - The author argues that the runaway success of the Internet has placed it on the road to a innovation-stifling and centrally monitored (and controlled) state.Author: Brett M. Frischmann... [BOOKS ET AL.] GENETICS: Thoughts on Humane Genetics - This volume combines a reprint of Charles Davenport's 1911 Heredity in Relation to Eugenics with discussions of its themes---including human genetic variation, mental illness, nature versus nurture, and human evolution---in a contemporary context.Author: Robert Pollack... [EDUCATION FORUM] DIVERSITY: Gender Similarities Characterize Math Performance - Standardized tests in the U.S. indicate that girls now score just as well as boys in math.Authors: Janet S. Hyde, Sara M. Lindberg, Marcia C. Linn, Amy B. Ellis, Caroline C. Williams... [PERSPECTIVES] MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: RNA Interference in the Nucleus - Studies of a protein that shuttles small regulatory RNA molecules into the nucleus suggest that additional factors may be required for nuclear import.Author: Gunter Meister... [PERSPECTIVES] PHYSICS: Elemental Complexity - Elemental bismuth is generating excitement among condensed matter physicists studying interacting relativistic electrons beyond the quantum limit.Author: Kamran Behnia... [PERSPECTIVES] BIOCHEMISTRY: A Natural Choice for Activating Hydrogen - The structure of a novel hydrogenase enzyme provides insights into how molecular hydrogen can be activated for use in biological processes.Authors: Fraser A. Armstrong, Juan C. Fontecilla-Camps... [PERSPECTIVES] BIOCHEMISTRY: Cargo Load Reduction - A specific enzyme that reduces protein disulfide bonds is part of a complex that eliminates aggregated, misfolded proteins.Authors: Ineke Braakman, Mieko Otsu... [PERSPECTIVES] PHYSICS: Let Quantum Mechanics Improve Your Images - Entanglement of light beams allows images to be transmitted and recorded in ways that surpass classical limits.Author: Robert W. Boyd... [PERSPECTIVES] MATERIALS SCIENCE: Bulk Metallic Glasses - Improved testing and a better understanding of the properties of bulk metallic glasses will lead to new avenues for commercial use.Authors: Cormac J. Byrne, Morten Eldrup... [AAAS AFFAIRS] AAAS News and Notes - A monthly roundup of recent news and projects of Science's publisher, the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Author: ... [REVIEWS] Studying Atomic Structures by Aberration-Corrected Transmission Electron Microscopy - Author: Knut W. Urban... [SPECIAL SECTION] HIV/AIDS: Money Matters - Authors: Leslie Roberts, Barbara Jasny... [SPECIAL/NEWS] The Great Funding Surge - HIV/AIDS now attracts billions of dollars each year, extending millions of lives. But many remain untreated and, without better prevention, the money will soon fall short.Author: Jon Cohen... [SPECIAL/NEWS] Bang for the Buck - Three modest investments by the U.S. National Institutes of Health are yielding big dividends to many in the field of HIV/AIDS research.Author: Jon Cohen... [SPECIAL/NEWS] Where Have All the Dollars Gone? - Science gives the lowdown on who has received the most money for HIV/AIDS research from the National Institutes of Health and which authors and institutions have published the highest impact HIV/AIDS papers.Author: Jon Cohen... [SPECIAL/NEWS] Uganda Confronts Corruption, Slowly - When allegations surfaced that Global Fund grants had been pilfered, a high-level commission promptly investigated and wrote a scathing report--that sat on shelves.Author: Jon Cohen... [SPECIAL/NEWS] The High Cost of Stolen Funds - Mayanja Lubwama, a 44-year-old HIV-infected man who lives with his wife and four of their six children in a cramped house on the outskirts of Kampala, is one of many Ugandans who were hurt by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria corruption case (see main text).Author: Jon Cohen... [SPECIAL/NEWS] The Global Fund's Best Friend? - By Bernard Rivers's own description, he's a "loving watchdog" of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, "a dog that spends much more of its time wagging its tail than barking," he adds.Author: Jon Cohen... [SPECIAL/NEWS] Botswana's Success Comes at Steep Cost - HIV/AIDS has walloped this tiny country, but it has hit back hard with a pioneering treatment program. Prevention efforts have lagged, however, and could unravel the gains.Author: Jon Cohen... [Perspective] HIV Vaccine Research: The Way Forward - Authors: Anthony S. Fauci, Margaret I. Johnston, Carl W. Dieffenbach, Dennis R. Burton, Scott M. Hammer, James A. Hoxie, Malcolm Martin, Julie Overbaugh, David I. Watkins, Adel Mahmoud, Warner C. Greene... [PERSPECTIVE] Whither or Wither Microbicides? - Authors: Robert M. Grant, Dean Hamer, Thomas Hope, Rowena Johnston, Joep Lange, Michael M. Lederman, Judy Lieberman, Christopher J Miller, John P. Moore, Donald E. Mosier, Douglas D. Richman, Robert T. Schooley, Marty S. Springer, Ronald S. Veazey, Mark A. Wainberg... [BREVIA] A Quantitative Link Between Recycling and Osmium Isotopes - Osmium isotope data and metal concentrations from Icelandic lavas show that the underlying mantle contains some recycled oceanic crust that is 1 to 2 billion years old.Authors: Alexander V. Sobolev, Albrecht W. Hofmann, Gerhard Brügmann, Valentina G. Batanova, Dmitry V. Kuzmin... [RESEARCH ARTICLES] An Argonaute Transports siRNAs from the Cytoplasm to the Nucleus - A protein similar to one that binds small cytoplasmic RNAs transports small RNAs into the nucleus, where they participate in RNA-based nuclear silencing processes.Authors: Shouhong Guang, Aaron F. Bochner, Derek M. Pavelec, Kirk B. Burkhart, Sandra Harding, Jennifer Lachowiec, Scott Kennedy... [REPORTS] Entangling the Spatial Properties of Laser Beams - Combining a spatially squeezed reference laser beam with another squeezed beam quantum mechanically entangles their position and momentum.Authors: Katherine Wagner, Jiri Janousek, Vincent Delaubert, Hongxin Zou, Charles Harb, Nicolas Treps, Jean François Morizur, Ping Koy Lam, Hans A. Bachor... [REPORTS] Entangled Images from Four-Wave Mixing - Passing light through a warm cloud of rubidium atoms creates quantum mechanically entangled twin images.Authors: Vincent Boyer, Alberto M. Marino, Raphael C. Pooser, Paul D. Lett... [REPORTS] Phase Transitions of Dirac Electrons in Bismuth - Bismuth exhibits sharp phase transitions in its magnetization when subjected to high magnetic fields at low temperature.Authors: Lu Li, J. G. Checkelsky, Y. S. Hor, C. Uher, A. F. Hebard, R. J. Cava, N. P. Ong... [REPORTS] Did Cooling Oceans Trigger Ordovician Biodiversification? Evidence from Conodont Thermometry - About 450 million years ago, ocean temperatures dropped to values near those today after being much higher for many millions of years, coeval with a sharp jump in biodiversity.Authors: Julie A. Trotter, Ian S. Williams, Christopher R. Barnes, Christophe Lécuyer, Robert S. Nicoll... [REPORTS] Enhancement of Thermoelectric Efficiency in PbTe by Distortion of the Electronic Density of States - Introduction of thallium into lead telluride improves its ability to generate electricity when heated by up to 50 percent.Authors: Joseph P. Heremans, Vladimir Jovovic, Eric S. Toberer, Ali Saramat, Ken Kurosaki, Anek Charoenphakdee, Shinsuke Yamanaka, G. Jeffrey Snyder... [REPORTS] BSKs Mediate Signal Transduction from the Receptor Kinase BRI1 in Arabidopsis - When a plant membrane receptor is activated by a steroid hormone, two kinases are phosphorylated that ultimately regulate gene expression and development.Authors: Wenqiang Tang, Tae-Wuk Kim, Juan A. Oses-Prieto, Yu Sun, Zhiping Deng, Shengwei Zhu, Ruiju Wang, Alma L. Burlingame, Zhi-Yong Wang... [REPORTS] One-Third of Reef-Building Corals Face Elevated Extinction Risk from Climate Change and Local Impacts - The viability of the world's major coral reefs is endangered both by direct human disturbance and by disease and bleaching events brought on by climate change.Authors: Kent E. Carpenter, Muhammad Abrar, Greta Aeby, Richard B. Aronson, Stuart Banks, Andrew Bruckner, Angel Chiriboga, Jorge Cortés, J. Charles Delbeek, Lyndon DeVantier, Graham J. Edgar, Alasdair J. Edwards, Douglas Fenner, Héctor M. Guzmán, Bert W. Hoeksema, Gregor Hodgson, Ofri Joha... [REPORTS] Eco1-Dependent Cohesin Acetylation During Establishment of Sister Chromatid Cohesion - Authors: Tom Rolef Ben-Shahar, Sebastian Heeger, Chris Lehane, Philip East, Helen Flynn, Mark Skehel, Frank Uhlmann... [REPORTS] A Molecular Determinant for the Establishment of Sister Chromatid Cohesion - The pairing of newly replicated chromatids--essential for accurate cell division--is promoted by acetylation of one subunit of the protein cohesin by another subunit.Authors: Elçin Ünal, Jill M. Heidinger-Pauli, Woong Kim, Vincent Guacci, Itay Onn, Steven P. Gygi, Douglas E. Koshland... [REPORTS] ERdj5 Is Required as a Disulfide Reductase for Degradation of Misfolded Proteins in the ER - A disulfide reductase found in the endoplasmic reticulum cleaves the disulfide bonds of misfolded proteins so they can be transported into the cytoplasm for degradation.Authors: Ryo Ushioda, Jun Hoseki, Kazutaka Araki, Gregor Jansen, David Y. Thomas, Kazuhiro Nagata... [REPORTS] The Crystal Structure of [Fe]-Hydrogenase Reveals the Geometry of the Active Site - Three hydrogenases that evolved independently exhibit similar features in their active sites, yielding clues for designing catalysts in hydrogen fuel cells.Authors: Seigo Shima, Oliver Pilak, Sonja Vogt, Michael Schick, Marco S. Stagni, Wolfram Meyer-Klaucke, Eberhard Warkentin, Rudolf K. Thauer, Ulrich Ermler... [REPORTS] Manipulating the Metazoan Mitochondrial Genome with Targeted Restriction Enzymes - Flies with mutant mitochondria--generated by introduction of restriction enzymes--show many of the same phenotypes as humans with mitochondrial mutations.Authors: Hong Xu, Steven Z. DeLuca, Patrick H. O?Farrell... [PODCASTS] Science Podcast - Author: ... Copyright © 2008, Real Estate Investment Tips. All Rights Reserved. |
