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A Key to Scientific Research Literature

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:27:27 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso

Table 1
What he said	What he meant:
It has long been known that...	I haven't bothered to look up the original reference but....
Of great theoretical and practical importance...	Interesting to me.
While it has not been possible to provide definite answers to these questions...	The experiment didn't work out, but I figured I could at least get a publication out of it.
The operant conditioning technique was chosen to study the problem...	The fellow in the next lab already had the equipment set up.
Three of the Ss were chosen for detailed study...	The results on the others didn't make sense.
Typical results are shown...	The best results are shown...
Agreement with the predicted curve is:
Excellent Good Satisfactory Fair	Fair Poor Doubtful Imaginary
It is suggested that... It is believed that... It may be that...	I think.
It is generally believed that...	A couple of other guys think so too.
It is clear that much additional work will be required before a complete understanding...	I don't understand it.
Unfortunately, a quantitative theory to account for these results has not been formulated...	I can't think of one and neither has anyone else.
Correct within an order of magnitude...	Wrong.
Thanks are due to Joe Glotz for assistance with the experiments and to John Doe for valuable discussion.	Glotz did the work and Doe explained what it meant.

Tags: tables, lists, research, humor, funny

Signs and Symptoms of Alcoholism

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:16:19 GMT

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Clip Source: www.paulhutchinson.com

The person develops a "tolerance" for alcohol. This means that it takes more alcohol to feel the same level of intoxication. Usually the person drinks more he or she used to, and more than most other people, in order to get the same effect.

The person has withdrawal symptoms. Withdrawal means that you feel sick whenever there is no alcohol in your body. The symptoms include nausea, sweating, shakiness, and anxiety. Withdrawal is different from a hangover. It typically isn’t at its worst first thing in the morning, but it gets worse through the day if the person tries to go all day without drinking, and it goes away if the person drinks again. (Having withdrawal symptoms is a very serious sign of addiction.)

The person often drinks more than he or she had intended to.

The person has been planning to cut down on drinking, or attempting to control the drinking, but those attempts keep failing. ( Don't be too quick to say, "see, I cut down for a month" if your use always shoots back up to where it was before. )

The person spends a lot of time and effort making sure that he or she can get alcohol. Often this takes the form of going to bars a lot, or planning lots of social events that involve alcohol, and avoiding social events where alcohol isn’t served. It also may involve spending time alone drinking instead of doing something else that wouldn’t allow as much drinking.

The person begins to give up or reduce important social, recreational or professional activities because of alcohol use. The person may be aware of being pulled in two directions, between alcohol and other priorities, and alcohol begins to win more and more often.

The person continues drinking even after being aware of having physical or psychological problems as a result.

Signs and Symptoms of Alcoholism

Tags: psychology, alcohol, alcoholism, lists, reference

Phobias and Manias

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:14:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Not for the katalogosophobics.

Clip Source: www.getinfo247.info

Definitions , of Phobias and Manias
The Scream , the Universal Symbol of Fear

Section A, Part 1: ablutomania to acousticophobia
Section A, Part 2: acromania to aeroacrophobia
Section A, Part 3: aerohygrophobia to albophobia
Section A, Part 4: albuminurophobia to amathophobia
Section A, Part 5: amaxomania to anthophobia
Section A, Part 6: anthropophobia to arachnoophobia
Section A, Part 7: arithmomania to avoidance

Section B, Part 1: baby to batophobia
Section B, Part 2: batrachophobia to black
Section B, Part 3: blennophobia to buying

Section C, Part 1: cacodemonomania to cardiophobia
Section C, Part 2: carnomania to cats
Section C, Part 3: cave, caves to choking
Section C, Part 4: cholerophobia to cingulophobia
Section C, Part 5: claustromania to cliffs
Section C, Part 6: climacophobia to contreltophobia
Section C, Part 7: cooking to cytheromania

Section D, Part 1: dacnomania to dermatophobia
Section D, Part 2: desanimania to domatophobia
Section D, Part 3: doramania to dystychiphobia

Section E, Part 1: eating to enosiophobia
Section E, Part 2: entheomania to ergasiophobia
Section E, Part 3: ergomania to extraterrestrial

Section F, Part 1: failure to felinophobia
Section F, Part 2: feminophobia to furs

Section G, Part 1: gaiety to genuphobia
Section G, Part 2: gephyromania to glass
Section G, Part 3: glazomania to gynonudomania

Section H, Part 1: habromania to heights
Section H, Part 2: heliomania to herpetomania
Section H, Part 3: herpetophobia to hydrargyrophobia
Section H, Part 4: hydrodipsomania to hysteromania

Section I-J, Part 1: iatrophobia to justice

Section-K, Part 1: kainomania to kyphophobia

Tags: psychology, phobias, manias, lists, reference

The “Ideal” Female Body

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:18:04 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso

Clip Source: healthbolt.net

1639 - The Three Graces; Pieter Pauwel Rubens

1887 - Pierre Auguste Renoir, The Bathers

1920 - Thin, short haired flapper.

1950 - Marylin Monroe (Size 14)

1960 - Twiggy Lawson (Aka the beginning of the end.) This was the first time in history that an under weight woman became the standard for the ideal body image.

1970’s - Karen Carpenter (Died in 1983 from heart failure as a complication of Anorexia Nervosa)

1988 - Cosmopolitan

2002 - Harper’s Bazaar

Modern day Fashion Model

Quick point of reference for that last one:

1944 - Nazi Holocaust Victim

Tags: fashion, body, female, women, lists, pictures

Free book: O'Reilly - Linux Kernel in a Nutshell

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:43:35 GMT

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Clip Source: www.kroah.com

This is the web site for the book, Linux Kernel in a Nutshell, by Greg Kroah-Hartman, published by O'Reilly.

Written by a leading developer and maintainer of the Linux kernel, Linux Kernel in a Nutshell is a comprehensive overview of kernel configuration and building, a critical task for Linux users and administrators.

No distribution can provide a Linux kernel that meets all users' needs. Computers big and small have special requirements that require reconfiguring and rebuilding the kernel. Whether you are trying to get sound, wireless support, and power management working on a laptop or incorporating enterprise features such as logical volume management on a large server, you can benefit from the insights in this book.

Linux Kernel in a Nutshell covers the entire range of kernel tasks, starting with downloading the source and making sure that the kernel is in sync with the versions of the tools you need. In addition to configuration and installation steps, the book offers reference material and discussions of related topics such as control of kernel options at runtime.

A key benefit of the book is a chapter on determining exactly what drivers are needed for your hardware. Also included are recipes that list what you need to do to accomplish a wide range of popular tasks.

If you want to know how to build, configure, and install a custom Linux kernel on your machine, buy this book. It is written by someone who spends every day building, configuring, and installing custom kernels as part of the development process of this fun, collaborative project called Linux.

I'm especially proud of the chapter on how to figure out how to configure a custom kernel based on the hardware running on your machine. This is an essential task for anyone wanting to wring out the best possible speed and control of your hardware.

Tags: free, ebook, book, oreilly, linux, programming

Gun myths in popular culture

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:28:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: [excerpt]

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Operation

Hammerless pistols like the Glock may be cocked as they are drawn. Since John Browning included a concealed hammer on the M1903 Colt Hammerless, exposed hammers are not a necessesity. These pistols, cannot be cocked or recocked without manually operating the slide.

Ammunition Use and Effects

Bullets can be stopped by items such as car doors, windshields (which can deflect depending on the angle fired and range along with what caliber), chairs, bath tubs, etc. Most will be penetrated quite easily with common pistol and rifle rounds. Some deviation in flight path while penetrating glass is a common. Typical household interior walls present very little obstacle to even small caliber handgun rounds. However, light .223 Remington hollow point bullets have been shown to stop after penetrating a single interior wall. By comparison, the 7.62mm NATO specification rounds used by the North Hollywood bank robbers were shown to have penetrated an exterior wall and multiple interior walls.

Common Myths on Common Guns

Glock pistols will not be detected by metal detectors. This myth was publicized in the movie "Die Hard II" when John McClane made a comment about the nonexistant "Glock 7". This is corrected in the movie Lord of War when Yuri sells a drug lord a Glock and mentions that this is not true and not to attempt it. Glock handguns use steel slides and barrels, and though the frame largely consists of synthetic material, it does have molded in metal guide rails which would be impossible to remove without destroying the firearm. This means that none of the Glock's vital parts could pass through a metal detector undetected.

Sawed-off shotguns can be fired one-handed, such as in the film Mad Max. The 12 Gauge round is too powerful to be wielded in one hand by most people. This force on an unsupported wrist can sprain the wrist or worse. Additionally, the recoil may cause the shooter to lose control of the weapon.

Tags: guns, reference, myths, lists

What Happens To Your Body If You Get Dosed With Radiation?

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:03:31 GMT

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Clip Source: healthbolt.net

Instantly: You’ll probably throw up. The gastrointestinal system is extremely sensitive to radiation at this level.

Within 30 Seconds: Disorientation sets in. This can last for minutes or hours. It is due to the radiation’s effect on your central nervous system.

1st Hour: Skin damage will start to appear. This can look like a sunburn and is characterized by swelling, itching and redness of your skin. You may also start developing Radiodermatitis (click for link to pic) at this point.

3rd Hour: This is the initial survival window. If you’re going to have a quick death from acute ionized radiation poisoning, it will be within the first few hours. If you survive, you have the following to look forward to:

Within 24 hours: Diarrhea, fainting and bleeding from your gums, nose and rectum are common reactions to large dose ionizing radiation exposure. Any and/or all of these symptoms should start to present themselves now.

2nd week: Your hair starts to fall out. Your appetite fades, followed by emaciation, and inflammation of the nose, mouth and throat.

Fourth Week: Rapid emaciation. There is about a 50% mortality rate at this point.

>Years: Should you survive the first few weeks, you are likely to develop one or more of the following cancers and/or infertility sometime in the next 20 years: leukemia, breast, bladder, colon, liver, lung, esophagus, ovarian, multiple myeloma, and stomach.

>Years: Department of Health and Human Services literature also suggests a possible association between ionizing radiation exposure and prostate, nasal cavity/sinuses, pharyngeal and laryngeal, and pancreatic cancer.

>Years: All of these cancerous and genetic effects are a gray area. They are called “Stochastic Effects” and chance determines which ones you will or will not have. Although, at the level of dosage we are talking about it is more a question of which one(s), than if.

Tags: radiation, reference, information, medicine

List of lists

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:43:28 GMT

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Clip Source: www.listof.org

The website www.listof.org is a place where one can find lists of almost anything to suit their needs. The lists are divided by subject and can be browsed easily to find what you are looking for.

One of the types of lists that are offered includes lists dealing with historical facts. If you are looking for a president, places or battles during a war, or even a list of the state capitals, this is one place to look. For those interested in present day material, careers, colleges and universities, dental schools, insurance companies, etc. are all available for your browsing needs.

This is one place to go if you are expecting a baby and need a variety of both boy and girls names to look up. If you are still at the stage where you are engaged, wedding songs and love songs are lists available for your use.

list of all fruits

list of imax theaters

free list of government grants

list of popular wedding songs

list of home based businesses

list of california cities

list of safest cars

list of insurance companies

list of games for xbox

list of settlement companies

list of movies

list of breeds of horses

list tribes of native americans

list of all sports

list of michigan lawyers

list of all drugs

list of drop shippers

list of area codes

list of weight loss programs

list of presidents

list of baby girls names

list of popes

list of interview questions

list of all endangered species

list of all colleges universities

list of holidays

list of religions

list of types of dogs

list of civil war battles

list of boy names

list of high fiber foods

list of actresses

list of low carbohydrate foods

list of radio stations

list of the ten commandments

list of famous inventors

list of state capitals

list of trucking companies

list of software companies

list of band names

list of dental schools

Tags: lists, website, reference

Cursive handwriting TTF font

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 01:35:29 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso

Clip Source: www.reflectdesign.com

Learning Curve BV contains two versions, one is plain and the other dashed. This font also contains a set of dingbats that helps with practicing elements of cursive writing. You create these by first typing a number and that creates the first example image and then press shift and the number again (keep pressing till you get as many as you need). One last thing. You can also create lines for your lettering by doing the same thing. Thanks to Lisa for providing the workbooks I used for reference!

TTF TTF & PS

Tags: ttf, font, cursive, handwriting