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- 6531: U of T professors devise better way to test sight in babies
- ... a baby, its head dotted with electrodes, sits in its mother's lap and watches flashing black and white checkerboards and stripes on a television screen. Soon after the test, doctors will know if the child can see and how well it can see. The testing procedure, which involves measuring brain wave activity prompted by visual stimuli (also called visual evoked potentials or VEP's) has been perfected by Drs. Barry ...
- 6532: AIDS: A U.S.- Made Monster?
- ... of the patients were professional criminals and New York City, which is relatively close, offered them a suitable milieu. Moreover, the patients were exclusively men, many of them having a history of homosexuality and drug abuse, as is often the case in American prisons. It is understandable why AIDS broke out precisely in 1979, precisely among men and among drug users, and precisely in New York City," assert the Segals. They ...
- 6533: AIDS - What's new ?
- ... often share blood-contaminated needles. In New York, more than 53 percent of drug users are HIV-infected and may transmit the infection to the heterosexual population by sexual contact and transmission from mother to child. Studies in Edinburgh, where 51 percent of drug users are HIV-infected, show that providing clean needles isn't enough to stem infection. Even given free disposable needles, many drug abusers preferred the camaraderie of ...
- 6534: AIDS and YOU
- ... other party, current feeling is that it is now safe to have "unprotected" sex. Note that this approach is recommended especially for those who wish to have children, to prevent the chance of having a child be born infected with AIDS, getting it from an infected mother. Note also that this approach can be used by groups of three or more people, but it must be adhered to VERY strictly. What ...
- 6535: Smoking
- ... Diclemente, et al., (1991) and Prochaska, et al. (1992), modified to meet the literacy level of female subjects of the lower socioeconomic level. The questionnaire was given to smokers "in prenatal, family planning, and well-child health clinics" (p. 498). The stages of Prochaska and Diclemente's were expanded to ensure sensitivity because most of the women of low SES fell into the first category; precontemplation (no intent to quit smoking ...
- 6536: Schitzophrenia and Other Mental Disorders
- ... making fun of these people. A retarded person has an IQ of less than 70. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder includes conditions marked by inappropiate lack of attention, by impulsiveness, and by hyperactivity, in which the child has difficulty organizing and completing work, is unable to stick to activities or follow directions, and is excessively restless. Anxiety disorder include fear of leaving home and parents, excessive shrinking from contact with strangers, and ...
- 6537: About Medical Marijuana
- ... Controlled Substances Act of 1970 established five categories, or "schedules," into which all illicit and prescription drugs were placed. Marijuana was placed in Schedule I, which defines the substance as having a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision. This definition is simply not accurate. However, at the time of the Controlled ...
- 6538: Marijuana for Medicinal Purposes
- ... those operating dangerous equipment. It also suggests that a simple oral recommendation from any doctor would suffice. That loose provision, designed to get around Federal laws that bar doctors from prescribing an illegal substance, makes abuse of the new law inevitable. The Arizona law, by contrast, requires that marijuana be prescribed in writing by two doctors. But that measure is also written too broadly. It says that many other drugs, not ...
- 6539: Marajuana: Effects and After Effects
- ... memory disorders. Marijuana and aging affect the brain in ve If marijuana use is abruptly stopped, certain withdrawal symptoms will be experienced: nausea, insomnia, irritability, and/or anxiety. The 1993 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse reports that: 33.7% of those surveyed admitted to having tried marijuana at some point in their lifetime, 9% admitted to having used marijuana during the past year, 4.3% used the drug in the ...
- 6540: Neural Networks
- ... experimental results and experience on the specific applications problem under study (Kh90). Finally, the selection of training data presented to the neural network influences whether or not the network learns a particular task. Like a child, how well a network will learn depends on the examples presented. A good set of examples, which illustrate the tasks to be learned well, is necessary for the desired learning to take place. The set ...
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