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Philosophy of Science RSS FeedsDisturbances of Character - Almost all the principles of traditional psychology are based upon the attempts of various theorists to explain a phenomenon rare for its time and almost totally unheard of in modern times. Character disturbance — not neurosis — is the pressing psychological reality of our day and simply can't be understood or dealt with using traditional paradigms.Tags: applying psychology, book, Freud, history, in practice, neurosis, ...Feed Source: counsellingresource.com From Dependence to Independence to Interdependence, Part 2 - One aspect of our psychological growth is the movement from dependence to independence to interdependence. In this second of a three-part series, we look at what independence is, how we develop it and how it prepares us for interdependence.Tags: dependence, independence, relationships
... From Dependence to Independence to Interdependence, Part 1 - One aspect of our psychological growth is the movement from dependence to independence to interdependence. In this first of a three-part series, we look at our dependence and how we have trouble accepting it -- as well as the importance of acknowledging our dependence.Tags: dependence, independence, vulnerability
... Do They Want Us to Stay The Same? - We want to make changes for the better. We expect those who care for us to support us in making those changes. But sometimes they don’t. Why is this?Tags: relationships
... Would You Like to Participate in a TV Show About Anxiety Disorders and Relationships? - A UK television network is looking into producing a TV programme about love and relationships in the context of anxiety disorders; would you like to share your story?Tags: anxiety and stress, OCD, relationships
... So, What Would YOU Like to Say in the Area of Mental Health? - With Sarah launching into her PhD and taking a break from her regular posts in the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog, that means we have a vacancy. Do you have something YOU would like to say about psychology, counselling, or mental health in general?Tags: blogging, online mental health, site news, writing
... Goodbye for Now: My Blogging Experiences - Saying a personal goodbye for now to the blog and giving links to the best writing on the web according to me!Tags: blogging, online mental health, technology
... What?s the Point? The Key Question in Therapy - What are the key ingredients in therapy that works in difficult situations? Fact and reason? Or a therapist willing to be with the client in the darkest places where we humans have to admit that we don't know what the point is, and that we cannot fix it?Tags: existentialism, meaning, person-centred, therapy
... Parenting and Power - Information is power. And children have considerably less information than we do about the world around them.Tags: consensual living, parenting and children
... Choose Joy ? or Choose No Choice! Curing Indecision - Once you have taken one step forward, one thing which is certain is that everything will look different. And you cannot see things from that position until you are standing there Tags: decision making, mindful awareness
... This Week in Science - Toward Precision Astronomy | Moderating Rainfall | Back in Circulation | Putting Limits on Ice Loss | Coding Space, Time, and Memory | Focus on Fatty Acid Synthase | Tracking Evolution of Transcription Regulation | ESCRTing Membrane Scission | The Normal Side of Trans-Splicing | Quantity, Not Just Quality, Matters | Explaining Meteorite Oxygen Isotope Composition | The Active Part of Real Catalysts | Viral Resistance Strategy | Wnt Receptor Signa... Editors' Choice - PHYSICS: Snapshot Magnetometry | BIOCHEMISTRY: Translation Translocations | CLIMATE SCIENCE: 1000 Years of Hurricanes | GEOPHYSICS: Sensing Supershear | BIOCHEMISTRY: Plasmid Propulsion | BIOPHYSICS: Molecular Cloaking | BIOMEDICINE: From Clinic to Lab and Back... Science Scope - Japanese Budget Rollout | Taleyarkhan Weighs Suit | Your Local Library... Random Samples - RUN, TOAD, RUN | THE EMPEROR'S TOES | THE RIGHT NOTE | CHINESE EMISSIONS... Newsmakers - LHC | IN OTHER NEWS : AWARDS | THEY SAID IT | Q&A... [EDITORIAL] Scientific Publishing Standards - Author: Bruce Alberts... [NEWS] GENETIC PRIVACY: Whole-Genome Data Not Anonymous, Challenging Assumptions - The discovery that a type of genetic data that is widely shared and often posted online can be traced back to individuals has prompted the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Wellcome Trust to strip some genetic data from their publicly accessible Web sites and NIH to recommend that other institutions do the same.Author: Jennifer Couzin... [NEWS] PLANT SCIENCE: China Plans $3.5 Billion GM Crops Initiative - Confronted with land degradation, chronic water shortages, and a growing population, the Chinese government later this month is expected to roll out a $3.5 billion R&D initiative on genetically modified plants.Author: Richard Stone... [NEWS] CANCER GENETICS: A Detailed Genetic Portrait of the Deadliest Human Cancers - Three studies published this week, two of which are being published online by Science, have given researchers their most detailed look so far at the genetic mutations that underlie the deadliest of human cancers: pancreatic cancer and the brain tumor glioblastoma.Author: Jocelyn Kaiser... [NEWS] NEUROSCIENCE: Hippocampal Firing Patterns Linked to Memory Recall - Two studies appearing in this week's issue of Science--one with rats (p. 1322) and one with people undergoing surgery for intractable epilepsy--suggest that patterns of neuron firing in the hippocampus are also involved in recalling past experiences.Author: Greg Miller... [NEWS] MATHFEST 2008: Shapeshifting Made Easy - At MathFest 2008, computational geometers demonstrated a general procedure for turning an arbitrary dissection of a polygon into a so-called hinged dissection.Author: Barry Cipra... [NEWS] MATHFEST 2008: Sweet Inspiration - At MathFest 2008, geometers announced that they'd found a more efficient way to wrap spherical chocolates, helping to alleviate global warming and the resulting chocolate-melting problem.Author: Barry Cipra... [NEWS] MATHFEST 2008: A Royal Squeeze - In a talk at MathFest 2008, a mathematician described a variant on the nonattacking queens problem in which he and his collaborators added pawns to the board and proved that each additional pawn permits an extra queen, provided that the board is large enough.Author: Barry Cipra... [NEWS] MATHFEST 2008: Taking the Edge Off - A quartet of researchers at MathFest 2008 demonstrated the densest packing for five circles on a torus by treating it as a square whose edges are connected.Author: Barry Cipra... [NEWS FOCUS] PSYCHOLOGY: Investigating the Psychopathic Mind - With a mobile brain scanner and permission to work with inmates in New Mexico state prisons, Kent Kiehl hopes to understand what goes awry in the brains of psychopathic criminals.Author: Greg Miller... [NEWS FOCUS] LARGE HADRON COLLIDER: The Overture Begins - Next week, physicists at the European particle physics lab, CERN, will fire up the world's biggest atom smasher. Expectations are sky-high, but discoveries may still be years away.Author: Adrian Cho... [NEWS FOCUS] LARGE HADRON COLLIDER: Researchers, Place Your Bets! - Many physicists are speculating about what the Large Hadron Collider might find. And some are even willing to put their money where their favorite theoretical models are and wager on their expectations.Author: Adrian Cho... [NEWS FOCUS] LARGE HADRON COLLIDER: Bracing for a Maelstrom of Data, CERN Puts Its Faith in the Grid - Researchers have hammered out new networking tools to store the Large Hadron Collider's instrument readings and make them available to physicists worldwide.Author: Daniel Clery... [NEWS FOCUS] LARGE HADRON COLLIDER: Is the LHC a Doomsday Machine? - As the Large Hadron Collider prepares to carry its first beam next week, a handful of physicists and others have proposed an array of dangerous entities that could be created in the minuscule fireball of a particle collision--and some have even filed injunctions attempting to stop the machine from being switched on.Authors: Daniel Clery, Adrian Cho... [LETTERS] Reading Between the Number Lines - Authors: Rafael E. Núñez;, Véronique Izard, Stanislas Dehaene, Pierre Pica, Elizabeth Spelke... [LETTERS] The Risks of Pigging Out on Antibiotics - Authors: Rebecca Goldburg, Steven Roach, David Wallinga, Margaret Mellon... [LETTERS] Battle of the Bugs - Authors: Roy D. Sleator, Colin Hill... [LETTERS] DOE Should Keep Education in Mind - Author: Lorenz A. Kull... [TECHNICAL COMMENT] Comment on ?Fire-Derived Charcoal Causes Loss of Forest Humus? - Authors: Johannes Lehmann, Saran Sohi... [TECHNICAL RESPONSE] Response to Comment on ?Fire-Derived Charcoal Causes Loss of Forest Humus? - Authors: David A. Wardle, Marie-Charlotte Nilsson, Olle Zackrisson... [LETTERS] Call for an Objective DOE Decision - Author: Constantine Cassapakis... [BOOKS ET AL.] PUBLIC HEALTH: The Tobacco Strategy Entrenched - The author describes the prevalence and effectiveness of industry efforts to promote doubt and fan controversy in order to undermine research that supports public health and environmental regulations.Author: Carl F. Cranor... [BOOKS ET AL.] THE GONZO SCIENTIST: Chasing the Biggest Shadow of All - The Gonzo Scientist joins a team of scientists to chase an eclipse in Mongolia.Author: John Bohannon... [THE GONZO SCIENTIST] How Astronomers Have Fun (and Nearly Die Trying) - In this installment, the Gonzo Scientist risks life and limb to reach the Gobi Desert in time to help rescue the sun from being swallowed by the dragon-god Rah.Author: John Bohannon... [POLICY FORUM] MEDICINE: Life Cycle of Translational Research for Medical Interventions - From the initial discovery of a medical intervention to a highly cited article is a long road, and even this is not the end of the journey.Authors: Despina G. Contopoulos-Ioannidis, George A. Alexiou, Theodore C. Gouvias, John P. A. Ioannidis... [PERSPECTIVES] GENETICS: Enhancing Gene Regulation - Bioinformatic approaches reveal functional changes and the evolution of regulatory sequences that control gene expression.Authors: Gregory A. Wray, Courtney C. Babbitt... [PERSPECTIVES] ASTRONOMY: The Universe Measured with a Comb - A technique for wavelength calibration promises to revolutionize observational astrophysics, in areas including planet searches and cosmology.Author: Sebastian Lopez... [PERSPECTIVES] MEDICINE: The Cart Before the Horse - Chimeric RNAs, transcribed from malignancy-associated chromosomal translocations, can also arise from RNA trans-splicing in normal cells.Authors: Janet D. Rowley, Thomas Blumenthal... [PERSPECTIVES] BIOCHEMISTRY: An Enzyme Assembly Line - Fatty acid synthases and related megaenzymes are highly adaptable to new functions as a result of their modular architecture.Authors: Janet L. Smith, David H. Sherman... [PERSPECTIVES] MICROBIOLOGY: How to Infect a Mimivirus - Large DNA viruses such as the giant Mimivirus can be infected by smaller viruses.Authors: Hiroyuki Ogata, Jean-Michel Claverie... [PERSPECTIVES] PHYSICS: An End to the Drought of Quantum Spin Liquids - After decades of searching, several promising examples of a new quantum state of matter have now emerged.Author: Patrick A. Lee... [REVIEWS] Flood or Drought: How Do Aerosols Affect Precipitation? - Authors: Daniel Rosenfeld, Ulrike Lohmann, Graciela B. Raga, Colin D. O?Dowd, Markku Kulmala, Sandro Fuzzi, Anni Reissell, Meinrat O. Andreae... [BREVIA] Shadow Enhancers as a Source of Evolutionary Novelty - Some developmentally important genes can be regulated via two enhancers, one located nearby and the other, a "shadow" enhancer, 10 to 20 kilobases away.Authors: Joung-Woo Hong, David A. Hendrix, Michael S. Levine... [RESEARCH ARTICLES] The Crystal Structure of a Mammalian Fatty Acid Synthase - A high-resolution structure of mammalian fatty acid synthase reveals that this enzyme is derived from an iterative polyketide synthase and has five active catalytic domains.Authors: Timm Maier, Marc Leibundgut, Nenad Ban... [RESEARCH ARTICLES] Internally Generated Cell Assembly Sequences in the Rat Hippocampus - As rats perform a memory task, cells in their hippocampus fire in self-generated sequences that correspond to and presage the animals' subsequent choices.Authors: Eva Pastalkova, Vladimir Itskov, Asohan Amarasingham, György Buzsáki... [REPORTS] Experimental Test of Self-Shielding in Vacuum Ultraviolet Photodissociation of CO - The anomalous variation of oxygen isotopes in early meteorites is produced by excited states during photodissociation of carbon monoxide, not by self-shielding, as was thought.Authors: Subrata Chakraborty, Musahid Ahmed, Teresa L. Jackson, Mark H. Thiemens... [REPORTS] Identification of Active Gold Nanoclusters on Iron Oxide Supports for CO Oxidation - High-resolution microscopy showed that the most effective catalytic gold species on an iron oxide support were those forming bilayer clusters of just 10 atoms.Authors: Andrew A. Herzing, Christopher J. Kiely, Albert F. Carley, Philip Landon, Graham J. Hutchings... [REPORTS] Laser Frequency Combs for Astronomical Observations - Accurate spectroscopy of the sun with a laser frequency comb shows that it can improve astronomical observations and may yield direct evidence of the universe's expansion.Authors: Tilo Steinmetz, Tobias Wilken, Constanza Araujo-Hauck, Ronald Holzwarth, Theodor W. Hänsch, Luca Pasquini, Antonio Manescau, Sandro D?Odorico, Michael T. Murphy, Thomas Kentischer, Wolfgang Schmidt, Thomas Udem... [REPORTS] Regional Synthesis of Mediterranean Atmospheric Circulation During the Last Glacial Maximum - A three-dimensional reconstruction of atmospheric temperatures in the Mediterranean during glacial times is analogous to one of winter during the Little Ice Age.Authors: J. Kuhlemann, E. J. Rohling, I. Krumrei, P. Kubik, S. Ivy-Ochs, M. Kucera... [REPORTS] Kinematic Constraints on Glacier Contributions to 21st-Century Sea-Level Rise - Evaluation of glacier dynamics implies that melting of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets could raise sea level by up to 2 meters by 2100, although a rise of 0.8 meters is more likely.Authors: W. T. Pfeffer, J. T. Harper, S. O?Neel... [REPORTS] Apobec3 Encodes Rfv3, a Gene Influencing Neutralizing Antibody Control of Retrovirus Infection - A resistance factor known to protect mice from retroviral infection is unexpectedly identified as Apobec3, a deoxycytidine deaminase that controls somatic hypermutation.Authors: Mario L. Santiago, Mauricio Montano, Robert Benitez, Ronald J. Messer, Wes Yonemoto, Bruce Chesebro, Kim J. Hasenkrug, Warner C. Greene... [REPORTS] Human-Specific Gain of Function in a Developmental Enhancer - When transferred to a mouse, a conserved regulatory element that has been positively selected in humans is robustly expressed at the base of its developing thumb and wrist.Authors: Shyam Prabhakar, Axel Visel, Jennifer A. Akiyama, Malak Shoukry, Keith D. Lewis, Amy Holt, Ingrid Plajzer-Frick, Harris Morrison, David R. FitzPatrick, Veena Afzal, Len A. Pennacchio, Edward M. Rubin, James P. Noonan... [REPORTS] Wnt3a-Mediated Formation of Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-Bisphosphate Regulates LRP6 Phosphorylation - The interaction of the signaling molecule Wnt to its receptor triggers accumulation of a lipid regulator, which stimulates phosphorylation of the receptor and cellular responses.Authors: Weijun Pan, Sun-Cheol Choi, He Wang, Yuanbo Qin, Laura Volpicelli-Daley, Laura Swan, Louise Lucast, Cynthia Khoo, Xiaowu Zhang, Lin Li, Charles S. Abrams, Sergei Y. Sokol, Dianqing Wu... [REPORTS] Helical Structures of ESCRT-III Are Disassembled by VPS4 - A protein responsible for the final separation of daughter cells or budding viruses forms heteromeric complexes on the inside of the membrane to regulate the abscission step.Authors: Suman Lata, Guy Schoehn, Ankur Jain, Ricardo Pires, Jacob Piehler, Heinrich G. G?ttlinger, Winfried Weissenhorn... [REPORTS] A Neoplastic Gene Fusion Mimics Trans-Splicing of RNAs in Normal Human Cells - A chimeric messenger RNA generated in a tumor by a DNA rearrangement is also, unexpectedly, expressed in healthy cells, a result of splicing together two separate messenger RNAs.Authors: Hui Li, Jinglan Wang, Gil Mor, Jeffrey Sklar... [REPORTS] Germline Allele-Specific Expression of TGFBR1 Confers an Increased Risk of Colorectal Cancer - In patients with colorectal cancer, one allele of the transforming growth factor-gene produces less messenger RNA and thus less protein, a likely contributor to disease risk.Authors: Laura Valle, Tarsicio Serena-Acedo, Sandya Liyanarachchi, Heather Hampel, Ilene Comeras, Zhongyuan Li, Qinghua Zeng, Hong-Tao Zhang, Michael J. Pennison, Maureen Sadim, Boris Pasche, Stephan M. Tanner, Albert de la Chapelle... Copyright © 2008, The Veggie Lady - Free Organic Gardening Advice. All Rights Reserved. |