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I'm working on my first one. Thus far, it's been extremely difficult. Basically, it's like everyone here has said: You write the paper, submit it to the journal for review, make the corrections and answer the concerns the reviewers had, then re-submit. Although that makes it sound much easier then it actually is.

Quite the philosophical question. I don't think theres a concrete answer to this question. Some people view the brain/mind as being purely mechanical. That is, our thoughts come from neurotransmitters acting upon neurons. There seems to be a logical basis for this. My professor always pointed to the fact that even complex human emotions, such as "love" can be mimiced by synthetic chemicals (e.g. exstasy). Other drugs releasing dopamine and epinephrine and such cause joy. The downside of this would be that as a human, we like to think of ourselves as individuals and "special" if you will. It would make your life seem insignificant if we eere simply made up of a bunch of chemicals and neuronal firings (e.g. matrix). Guess this didn't answer your question, but I don't think theres really anyone who knows the actual answer

Probably a combination of all these factors. An example of waht sayonara said the 4 minute mile. For a long time, people thought it was impossible to break. Once somebody did it however, the goal was achieved a few more times in short succession. I believe the current record is approximatel 3:45. Here's another question: How good are athletes going to get? For instance the 100M dash record is 9.78 I think. How much faster can a human get? I heard a statistic that when the record dropped from like 9.9 to 9.79 or something, it was the largest change in the world record in like 20 years. I think we could agree that it is almost impossible to go sub 9.0. Definetly impossible to go below 8.0 So will we ever reacha point where the records can't be broken??

Exactly. Why spend 5 years getting a Ph.D when you can do it in three?

Damn, an undergraduate masters degree? It seems to me that doing your undergraduate/graduate work in the UK would definetly be a wise choice.....

Two atoms are walking down the street. One says to the other: "Oh no, I think I lost my electron". To which the other replied: "Are you sure?" "YES, I'm positive".

Adding on to what people have said here. Chemotherapy and radiation therapy are both quite toxic treatments. From my understanding chemotherapy can't really distinguish between a "good" cell, and the "cancer" cell that it's trying to kill. Instead, chemotherapy works by disrupting a portion of the cell cycle. Essentially, only the cells that are currently dividing and replicating will die. Thus, chemotherapy targets the "faster" growing cells, such as cancerous tumors. Other rapidly dividing cells can be killed as well, such as hair follicles. I think thats one of the reasons your hair falls out during treatment.

Well, I agree with you. The first too I think are okay. There are too many times some jerk completely runs a red light and sometimes it pisses me off (especially if I';m caught in the same light). The black boxes are a little "iffy". Is it simply a matter of time before they record everything. E.g. as soon as you go over 100 mph. automatic ticket. Can you be tracked while driving in a "bad part" of town? At this point I think they're "O.K" but only time will tell. Radar jammers are just like anything else. Legal until caught. Of course they should be outlawed, but if you wanna play the odds, get one.

Sayonara is right about pdf's. They are the standard for research. In this golden computer age everysingle academic journal article I've ever downloaded is in pdf. format. I'm a tad stunned about the load times everyone experiences. Maybe it's the download times and not actually acrobat. For instance, I made sure that my acrobat doesn't start up with my computer. But if I open a saved .pdf on my comp. it's up and running in seconds. I guess it may be a pain, but I personally have few problems with it. Off-topic, if anyone has a pdf. organizer I would love it!, something where I can archive or search all my journal articles would be a blessing!

The bottom one looks like a japanese beetle, Although if it were, it appears his antennae have been removed. It's hard for me to tell though without being able to tell how big it is, or the actual colors on it.

Pure crap. Send me $30.00 and I'll tell you why.

I'm not familiar with the mathematics field, but, in the field of "sciences" (chemistry, biology etc.) they usually pay your way, and offer you a stipend to obtain a Ph.D. It's only a few years more then a master's and makes good economic sense. Of course, the field of mathematics may be entirely different.

Drugs can work however. Chlorpromazine was introduced in the 1950's and resulted in the deinstitutionalization of thousands of patients. These weren't necessarily diagnosed with multiple personality disorder. Supposedly it is a true disorder, however its diagnosis is based upon fairly subjective criteria (DSM IV manual). The current drugs available to treat psychosis usually work by modulating neurotransmisison within the brain. This is a start in treating patients, however it's nearly impossible to determine how the brain works. (think of consciousness in general, it's an extremely complex phenomena). Thus, it's difficult to begin thinking outside the box, when the foundations (basic brain function) for thinking "in the box" aren't even laid.

Okay, okay, I'll tone down my argument and argue for the sake of debate. I'll try and put aside personal biases and have vinamn educate me. Okay, heres where we agree. I won't doubt your expertise in all these areas. But again, I'd ask, aren't there more traditional "allopathic" professions to take of these jobs? Restoring range of motion: physical therapy. Improving bench press: personal trainers, exercise scientists. Massage therapy etc.? Again, I guess I'm curious as to how chiropractors differ they're approach to healthcare from traditional healthcare providers. Instead of inquiring, I think I'll politely disagree with you here. Could you provide me with a peer reviewed reference of chiropractor's engaged in reaserch. I'm not familiar with any references (not to say that they don't exist, I'm just admitting I haven't come across one, or maybe I don't know where to look). The only effort I honestly put in to it was searching pubmed for "chiropractor" not much came up. I can recognize good reasearch, I'm curious to see some (not to be meant as a flame, I'm just curious). I'm beginning my 4th year of a Ph.D program in pharmacology and toxicology. My area of study is psychological disorders/drug abuse. Hopefully within 6 months I'll publish my initial "first author" publication. When I do publish, I'll gladly point you in direction. Keep in mind this will be peer reviewed. You can disregard my opinion as "ill-informed" for disagreeing with you. If there wasn't any truth to my opinion there wouldn't be a humungous debate about whether or not your profession was "real" or not in the first place. All I ask is you give me a singel reference for a large-scale clinical study showing me that a technique that is unique to chirpractors (not used in other areas of health) works.

I would go out on a limg and say that usually chiropractors are not covered. Chiropractors aren't covered for the same reason you cannot be referred to a Voodoo witch doctor as a "specialist". Chiropractors fall into the category of nonallopathic healthcare. Basically, they're not real doctors. They play very little role in healthcare, if any. In defense of them, there is a definite "mind-body" connection in relation to a person's health. If someone experiences high levels of stress and is under constant pressure it can weaken the immune system. The placebo effect is also well documented. The "placebo effect" is basically what you're paying a chiropractor to do. When people have chronic pains that cannot be cured they turn to more drastic and non-conventional measures. They will then pay a chiropractor to crack they're back, and tell they that they have "re-aligned the life giving force in the spine", or adjusted they're chi or whatever. This makes the patient feel better. Does this help people? Of course. But it is basically the same thing as the placebo effect.

Sure, the receptor I'm doing my thesis on is the 5-HT1A receptor. It's a serotonergic autoreceptor. It's usually coupled to an inhibition of adenylyl cyclase, however in hippocampal neurons it does not cause this same inhibition.

I dunno about everyone else, but the links didn't work for me (just brought me back to this forum).

I'm confused alt.......are you saying the receiver doesn't have 5.1 encoding? Instead of paying a lot of money for an adapter couldn't you just buy a DVD player? They're only like $50 at Wal-mart right now. About the bose comment I made about not being "real" speakers. What I meant by that was the way they market they're technologies. For instance, the 301 speakers I have use this "direct/reflect" technology, which supposedly aims the individual woofers in different directions so that the music and sound bounces off the walls in weird ways and such IMO they sound nice, but the "direct/reflect" technology is B.S. Also, look at the Bass module's and they're ever so famous cubes. I've listened to both and they sound good. But they advertise the cubes as using these super special high quaity magnets and blah blah blah. They claim to produce a "full spectrum" of sound from the tiny cubes and bass module due to they're "inovative technology". From what I know (I suck at physics), the only way you can achieve deep bass, is from creating a sound wave with a large amplitude. This can only be done by a larger woofer (which is why bass speakers are usually above 10"). So the laws of physics dictate that no matter how many super powered magnets and "innovative technology" you shove into a cube, you'll never get a good bass response. Like I said however, I have a lot of bose equipment. I think it sounds good, just not worth the price. My cubes sound good, but they're used as rears and def. not as front speakers (background effects, special effects etc.). Along the same lines, my bass speaker is a 15" cerwin vega, and IMO opinion it would eat any bose bass modeul alive.

I've read that one of the main challenges to getting to mars is psychological. Isn't it estimated to take upwards of a year of space travel to get there? This would mean astronauts cramped in a small shuttle ready to kill one another. Besides being aggravated by your fellow astronauts, the environment is extremely high stress, and astronauts will be facing life or death situations constantly. The technologies to reach mars will come sooner then we're ready. On a side note, what would be the point of making it to mars? Just to say: "yay, we did it"?. I could see doing it for the sake of exploration and science, however the financial and resource investments seem to large to justify going to mars simply for an ego trip.

Yes, I believe Baur is employed by our University (SUNY at Buffalo, which is a different college then Buffalo State University). But that was my main point about colleges and science in general. Even a University that is regarded as "average" will employ excellent scientists. When you get to the level of a Ph.D, it's your publications, and the quality of the research that you perform that matter, and not so much the name of your institution.

Theres always the great debate about whether or not Bose are "real" stereo speakers. I've done my entire home theatre in bose (301's in the front, double cubes for the rears, center channel) along with a 15' powered cerwin vega sub. After finally finishing it, I realized there was no way I could play it at even half it's maximum level. Anywho, I love the sound of my Bose system, although in a cost VS. quality thing, I'd probably go with a different brand next time.

Well, you could buy a stand alone DVD player, they're cheap as heck nowadays. The buy a receiver and home theatre setup, then just connect the laptop to the receiver when you want music.

thats because it doesn't take an extraordinary effort to get into college. The test has to be simple enough to give the normal morons a chance to get into college. From what I remember the test is set up so theres a large continum of scores. So yes, they may be easy, but it's difficult to get them perfect...

In the U.S. they sell them at Wal-Mart. 6 footers, only like 20 bucks (dunno the conversion but thats pretty cheap). We have four in our basement for parties...good times.