In a study the majority of the patient population (96%) preferred their psychiatrist not to wear a white coat although 58% did not think it would make a difference in their relationship with their doctor. The psychiatrists mostly (64%) agreed on this point, 14% added that in situations like geriatric psychiatry, emergency psychiatry, inpatient and consultation lia......
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M­­os­t of us­ ha­ve d­one it: d­r­opped­ a­ na­m­­e in a­ conver­s­a­tion a­nd­ then wa­ited­ for­ people to for­m­­ the a­ppr­opr­ia­te conclus­ions­. “Wow, if Chr­is­tia­n is­ fr­iend­s­ with t­ha­t­ guy, well t­hen he m­­ust­ b­e real­l­y­ impo­­rt­a nt­/int­el lig­ent­/p o­­pular&# 8221;. Unfo­­rt­unat­ely, it­’s a fairly t­ransparent­ st­rat­eg­y. Ind­eed­, ac­c­o­­rd­ing­ t­o­­ Ca­......
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Research Blogging An aggregation of blog posts about academic research......
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A somewhat late Friday Weird Science, but I want to point out that Sci was not up at 4am shopping with all the crazies. I don’t DO that sort of thing. Online is so much better. So here I was, rolling myself around the house after a particularly delicious Thanksgiving dinner, and contemplating what offering to place upon the alter of the blogosphere. And then I came upon it. The scale. Nor......
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Autor: fee Eine der interessantesten Fragen des Lebens ist wahrscheinlich: “Wie kam es zur Entstehung von mehrzelligen Organismen? Und weshalb?” Die wahrscheinlichste Antwort: “Weil es einen Fitnessvorteil darstellte!”. Kooperation und Zusammenarbeit zahlt sich in der Natur in vielen Varianten aus und resultiert entsprechend in erfolgreicherer Fortpflanzung. Ein beliebter......
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Die Ergebnisse zur QCD-Simulation nach dem Gittereich theorie-Ve rfahren, von Stephan Dürr et al. in SCIENCE vom 21.11.2008 veröffentlicht wurden (siehe Zitat am Ende des Post), sind auch in Newsmeldungen, die z.B. auf Digg auch sehr hoch standen, besprochen worden. Leider aber auf eine sehr schlechte Art. Dieser Artikel bei Yahoo News ist ziemlich schlimm. Mal abgesehen davon, dass man E ......
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Human activity is hard to predict . In researching human behavior this uncertainty or lack of information is usually described by scientists as stochastic models. A stochastic model means that even if the initial condition (or starting point) is known, there are many possibilities the process might go to, but some paths are more probable and others less. One of the simplest stochastic m......
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Autor: fee Anti-Aging, heute ein überaus geflügeltes Wort, beschreibt die Anstrengungen, die die Menschheit unternimmt, um den natürlichen Alterungsprozess zu verhindern oder zumindest zu verlangsamen. Schon seit Menschengedenken, träumt der Mensch von der Unsterblichkeit und in vielen Mythen und Geschichten ist davon die Rede. In den letzten Jahrzehnten, hatt die Forschergemeinde auch bahnbreche......
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Somewhere along the way we have lost our friendship and our love, and our lust for one another. My depression has really been hard on him. He seems to think I don’t know that. He avoids me by drinking and working. Myself, I feel like I am giving up on the relationship. Using the little energy I have to create and stimulate the growth of new friendships. If you want to know about the effec......
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Autor: fee Die Amyotrophe Lateralsklerose ( ALS ) ist eine verheerende neurodegenerative Erkrankung des motorischen Nervensystems und verläuft tödlich. Bisher ist die kausative Ursache unbekannt, doch das könnte sich ändern, da Mutationen in einem altbekannten Gen möglicherweise eine neuretoxische Wirkung produzieren. ALS kommt sowohl als familiäre (erbliche, nur ca. 10%) als......
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You should warn starting medical school students of the social consequences of studying medicine. In a recent study comparing medical students with students on a different degree course (in economics) at the same university it has been shown that medical students are socially exclusive and feel separated from university life. Moreover, the reasons for this separation are out of the student......
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S­ecure w­a­rd m­a­n­a­g­ers­ m­a­y be a­ble to reduce p­a­tien­t a­g­g­res­s­ion­ by ca­ref­ully m­on­itorin­g­ the s­ex ra­tio of­ the s­ta­f­f­ rela­tive to the p­a­tien­ts­. Tha­t’s­ a­ccordin­g­ to S­us­a­n­ K­n­ow­les­ a­n­d c­o­l­l­eagues­ w­ho­’ve f­o­und t­hat­ m­ent­al healt­h pat­ient­s held o­n a m­edium­ sec­ur­e w­ar­d w­er­e m­o­r­e likely­ t­o­ exhibit­ phy­sic­al o­r......
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Google is significantly more efficient in searching for specific medical information than other search engines such as Yahoo!, Ask.com and Wikipedia. Moreover, general search engines guide users to websites likely to contain information on a topic of interest with greater efficiency than directly accessing an individual website (eg, Wikipedia, MDconsult and others). Physicians are conce......
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More than 52.2% of the European population use the Internet for health related purposes. In 2005 this percentage was 43.2% Significant growth in the use of Internet for health purposes was found in all the seven countries participating in the survey, with an average growth of 9.9% (8.5 - 11.3). Highest growth was noted in Germany (12.2& #37;), Poland (11.8& #37;).. ....
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V­o­t­er­s a­r­e m­o­r­e wil­l­ing­ t­o­ v­o­t­e f­o­r­ m­a­l­e po­l­it­ica­l­ ca­ndida­t­es who­m­ t­hey­ per­ceiv­e t­o­ ha­v­e hig­h sel­f­-est­eem­ - a­ f­inding­ which co­ul­d hel­p expl­a­in Pr­esident­ El­ect­ Ba­r­a­ck O­ba­m­a­’s el­ect­o­r­a­l­ success. In A­utum­n 2007, Vi­rgi­l­ Ze­i­gl­e­r-Hi­l­l­ a­nd Erin M­yers a­sked 209 underg­ra­dua­t­es t­o­ ra­t­e t­he self­-est­ eem­......
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One of the joys of physics, and science in general, is that even seemingly mundane objects occasionally yield physical surprises.  A great example of this made the news about a month ago: the observation that, under the right circumstances, x-rays can be generated by the peeling of Scotch tape!  The phenomenon is an extreme example of the phenomenon of triboluminescence, and I thought I would ......
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Autor: fee Das ist ja mal wieder eine wilde Meldung, doch da es bei NatureNews steht, glaub Ich es einfach mal! Zwei Forschergruppen haben gespeicherte Logdaten von Suchbegriffen (die sogenannten search-query logs) bei Google und Yahoo untersucht und mit dem Auftreten von Influenza Epidemien in den USA koreliert. Und die Idee, dass ein Kranker häufiger nach krankheits relevanten Suchbegrif......
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You’v­e pr­obably been­ ther­e. You’r­e late, los­t, an­d­ you as­k an­ in­n­oc­en­t pas­s­er­-by for­ d­ir­ec­tion­s­. It beg­in­s­ un­d­aun­tin­g­ly en­oug­h: “Left at the lig­hts­, s­tr­aig­ht ahead­, thir­d­ r­ig­ht,” … but then­ your­ head­ s­tar­ts­ to s­pin­ … “then­ follow the c­or­n­er­ r­oun­d­ un­til you r­eac­h the par­k, then­ s­ec­on­d­ r­ig­......
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Gaming among college-aged men may provide a healthy source of socialization, relaxation, and coping. In college-aged males: there were no significant correlations between participants’ BMI and frequency of electronic game play there were no significant correlations between academic performance and frequency of electronic game play there were no significant mean differences between oth......
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Now that we all know who the new President of the United States will be, people are preparing for a new type of government, with a new and markedly different agenda than the previous one. Most people are very contend with this new agenda, but some will be disappointed. How does this influence the people’s opinion, one might ask? Will conflict be the result, or can one expect that in general ......
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From me­g­ap­ixe­ls an­­d g­ig­ab­y­te­s to calorie­ cou­n­­ts an­­d su­n­­ p­rote­ction­­ factors, the­re­’s b­are­ly­ a p­rodu­ct ou­t the­re­ that isn­­’t p­rou­dly­ b­oastin­­g­ its e­n­­v­iab­le­ sp­e­cs to wou­ld-b­e­ p­u­rchase­rs. A n­­e­w stu­dy­ su­g­g­e­sts the­se­ fig­u­re­s e­xe­rt a p­owe­rfu­l, irration­­al e­ffe­ct on­­ con­­su­me ­rs’ de­cision­ ­-makin­­g ­, e­v­e­......
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In comparison to non bloggers the bloggers’ levels of social integration and the tendency to count on others for assistance (reliable alliance) increased over time in as short as a period of two months. Compared to non bloggers, bloggers were more satisfied with number of face-to-face and online friends and with closeness of face-to-face friendships. These changes were not present for no......
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Civilians can be exposed to traumatic events. Most notably terrorist bombing attacks. In Israel, civilians are a frequent target of terrorist suicide bombers (e.g., attacks on civilians riding on public buses). BusWorld is a simulation of a terrorist suicide bus-bombing attack designed to treat survivors for PTSD. What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? Patients with PTSD commonly ......
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Autor: fee Die freischwimmende Meeresschnecke Elysia chlorotica ist, wie ihr Name den lateinisch bewanderten unter uns leicht eröffnet, grün. Und das liegt an ihrer Diät, der Grünalge Vaucheria litorea. Das kennt man auch von anderen Tieren, zum Beispiel Flamingos reichern rote Farbstoffe aus ihrer filtrierten Nahrung, kleinen Krebstieren ein und erhalten so ihre schönen rosafarbenen Federn. E. c......
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Or at least, this is what a study funded by AstraZeneca suggests. The study has been recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine — you can download a free pdf copy of it here (watch out, it opens in a new window). In this blog post, I am going to examine and summarize the paper, and trying to draw some conclusions from it. Are the results reliable? Was the follow-up......
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