Function

I'm not 100% sure, but common sense (or some physiology-sense) says that NaCl flows together with water so this would lead me to think that there's just a lot more of NaCl in sweat than glucose ...

Thanks!

Yes your correct the particle spin does follow the left hand/right rules

So the unity charge of the particle doesn't matter (+ or -), as long as it's charged? It's just for a figure in my thesis; I should know whether a counterclockwise spinning proton would have its magnetic field vector point inwards or outwards ... Conventionally seen

The very definition of speculation says it doe's not have to be evidence based, (although I did use evidence).

House rules do.

Hello everyone

I basically get the hang of MRI, but I'm left with one small - not all too important - question:

Although protons do not genuinly spin, creating their own cute little magnetic dipole, let's consider they do, for simplicity.

Does the right-hand rule apply to protons? Or electrons?

As in: consider a proton spinning in the plane of your computer screen, in a counterclockwise sense. Does the magnetic dipole inducted by its spin point out of your screen? Or inwards?

Is the contrary true for electrons? (Not important in MRI, but just curious; physics is a great while ago)

Thanks.

Function

What about magpies?

How about just making "smoking age" nonexistant? I mean, now, it can still be something like: "Ooh, I'll turn 16 tomorrow, imagine what I can do next: drink (at least, beers and whine etc. in Belgium), drive (at least, not in Belgium, lol), have sex (I guess, everywhere?) and smoke (at least, I think, mostly everywhere)!"

Just to make it less ... exciting and exotic?

It has been demonstrated a few times I guess that a paternalistic approach "Thou shalt not smoke" has a contrary effect. Abolishing the so-called "smoking age" could be an interesting experiment to see what numbers of smoking proportions do. If they should indeed fall significantly, we could be a step closer to prohibiting smoking in public (less whining).

One day we all came here to learn from one another, and it doesn't matter what we already do or do not know.

Most of us still seek others' knowledge here by asking questions in topics and most of us share their knowledge with others when asked; again - no matter what we already do or don't know. There's always someone willing to explain anything to you - from very basic to very advanced. We all had and have to start somewhere.

Please feel welcome to Science Forums.

Are there studies standardises for anything (well maybe not everything but at least income and other obvious Third World v. First World differences) but skin colour? If so - what I'd doubt - then I'd love to see the results of those studies and I'd love to witness that STDs occur evenly in all races.

Thanks everyone! It indeed seems best to omit any middle initials.

These are symptoms that may be ameliorated by the placebo effect, which is the only known evidence for the effectiveness of acupuncture, afaik.

We got a lesson on pain by a professor in neurology last year, and indeed the only way accupuncture may work somehow, is the stimulation of the µ-opioid receptors ...

Again...Premature birth can increase the chance of becoming gay.

I have scientific evidence for this but no time to post it. I found an article that summarizes scientific research on the cause of homosexuality.

One doesn't become gay.

Hush now!

Welcome to the greatest science forum on the entire internet.

I am unsure on what you mean with "migration", since lots of these steps are, in fact, migration ...

If I tell you a tumour most likely will induce angiogenesis in hypoxic circumstances, can you start forming a chronologic order? When will a tumour be hypoxic? When can intravasation take place? What happens between intravasation and extravasation? ...

This thread resembles a lot of medicines when it comes to adverse effects

Headache, nausea, gastro-intestinal complaints, vomiting, ...

Hi Function.

 

If you were submitting your thesis to a UK university board, there are no "rules". There are, however, conventions, not only in theses but generally.

 

1. You can refer to yourself however you like - but John Maynard Octavious Smith, Jr. would be considered pretentious

 

2. In attributions or thanks, it is usually sufficient to use the suffix title only - Prof., Dr., etc. But be careful - in a clinical context, do not refer to someone as Mr. unless they are a surgeon.

 

3. "Trailing" qualifications (MD, FRCS, PhD, BSc etc) are not normally used in this context

 

4. If in doubt, ask the people concerned what they would prefer. That seems the simplest course

So you would call a professor in neurosurgery

Prof. Dr Mr Firstname A. Lastname?

Hello everyone

Writing my thesis, I was wondering certain things on mentioning myself, my supervisors, co-supervisors and advisor (I'll call them all my supervisors henceforth):

Situation:

• Some of my supervisors have one or multiple middle names.
• All of my supervisors are physicians.
• Some of my supervisors are a professor.
• My other supervisors are PhD candidates.
• I have to mention all of them multiple times in quite official pages:
  • Cover page
  • Myself without anyone else on a 'sec' title page, with only title and author (p. i)
  • Title page (p. iii) (identical to the cover page)
  • P. iv, giving an overview of author, supervisors, co-supervisor, advisor and commissioner of the examination board and details on the research group
  • Signature page (p. v)
• In other pages, I just mention them by name (e.g. "Professor Firstname Lastname, neurosurgeon" for the profs, "Firstname Lastname, radiologist" for the non-profs)

How should I mention these persons on the pages given above? Is it overkill to mention all of their middle initials and all of their titles everytime I mention them on these pages? Is it overkill to include all of my 3 middle initials and state BSc after my name? Is it in my place to do so? Should I omit my middle initials and BSc title in the 'sec' title page? (Btw, 'sec' refers to the French word for 'dry')

Perhaps influencing the choice: I've already included all of my middle initials in a manuscript for a research I participated in, filed at the Journal of Neuroscience ...

My university doesn't provide any guidelines on these matters and the persons in question couldn't care less so I was wondering which was appropriate ...

I'm aiming to write my thesis in a British English fashion, should this influence anything ...

If I have to include multiple middle initials, I divide them with a "hair space" (Firstname A.[hair space]A. Lastname), is this appropriate?

Concerning the titles: make a choice, considering British English:

• For the professors: Prof. Firstname Lastname, MD, PhD / Prof. Firstname Lastname, MD, PhD, DMSc / Prof. Dr Firstname Lastname, MBBS, DMSc / ...
• For the others: Firstname Lastname, MD, PhDc / Firstname Lastname, MD / Firstname Lastname, MBBS, PhDc / ...

So briefly: what are the correct titles in British English? Is "MD" an acceptable alternative for MBBS? When should I omit titles and middle initials? When should I include all? How (in)appropriate is it to mention both PhD and DMSc?

What with periods? MD vs. M.D.? PhD vs. Ph.D.? BSc vs. B.Sc.? DMSc vs. D.M.Sc.?

Thanks for your opinions (for I doubt there are guidelines on these kinds of matter).

Functionella

I'd be stupified if it weren't possible in the US?

As far as I'm aware of, basically every stimulant, drug, medicine, acting on receptors, is prone to tolerance and addiction ...

We wouldn't be calling certain doses "overdoses" if they were not harmful.

In Belgium, you can combine your (in case of neurology, 5-year lasting) specialisation with a PhD ... 2 years of research may replace 1 year of specialisation here; I'm planning on doing that: combining my specialisation (not sure which one yet, either neurology or neurosurgery) with a PhD, favourably in a fundamental neuroscientific setting, e.g. epilepsy, consciousness, ...

Think this is possible where you live?

Doesn't matter if you do.

The most common response I get is shut up kid.

If ever I'd encounter a situation as described above, and I notice someone else experiencing discomfort from the smoke, or when there's a pregnant woman (or, the hell with it, someone with asthma, COPD, ...), boy you better run

People smoking in the vicinity (or even in) a bus stop shelter thing while it's raining makes me quite furious. Inside, alas. I don't have the guts to tell them to stop smoking.

 

Smoking in public has always been restricted. There have always been "No smoking" signs in many public places, more so now. It's getting to the point where the question is exactly WHERE is smoking PERMITTED in public?

I meant on the streets etc.

If it were up to me, smoking in public would be indisputably prohibited, for the sake of the well-being of all non-smokers inhaling that crap passively.

This would then be the gay prematurely born uncle theory.

The gay uncle theory is about an uncle or aunt which is gay and therefor does not have children and can help raising his nieces and nephews.

A prematurely born person with health problems will most of the times have no children, which also allows it to help raising nieces and nephews....that's imo why prematurely born infants have a higher chance of becoming gay.

I back up DrKrettin; the hell kind of nonsense is that? I wasn't born prematurely, I don't have major health problems. Now fill in the blanks.

I don't like your causation either, btw: 'therefore' implies the certainty of not having children when being gay. Which is not the case.

 

Unlike CharonY, I believe that there are sources that do clearly explain certain memory phenomena simply and neatly particularly amid sleep. Although I agree that our brain isn't simple, I don't believe its complexity is beyond our ability to decipher or understand.

I am consciously awaiting the day that Professor Steven Laureys and his Coma Science Group (or the hell, any neuroscientist) gives the great breakthrough in the understanding of our consciousness and conscience, and our understanding of our existance.