It is also important to note that patients recieve treatment as well as councelling regarding "posture and stress-reducing relaxation techniques" This knowledge may be as important if not more so in treating workers with this disorder.
With the millions of dollars spend each year on worker's compensation claims, a mere $45/visit seems a blessing to insurance companies everywhere. Hopefully this is a treatment that works over the long-run.
It is important to note that the study focused only on men who had been abused. It has been well established that anyone who has been abused is more prone to destructive behavior. What would be more significant is if a study group of people with the gene found a significant portion of that population, regardless of upbringing, had criminal or anti-social tendencies.
I also found it positive that the article stated several times that genes do not define a person and that there are more serious problems at hand when discussing crime than prevention through opression.
If you really want to know more about this kind of research, check out the Journal of Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine. (check university libraries for this publication). They have published similar studies, and also report other space/aviation related research. Since they are an actual journal instead of mass media, all their data and analysis is included. I havn't found a digital version, sorry.
I've been looking forward to seeing some of the Japanese style phones in the US. I'm really sick of the large and plain looking phones, perhaps American companies will take a hint.
As a biomedical engineering student, I've found that there are alot of projects looking for skilled programmers, but each problem may have a completely different need on the technical end. I would reccomend looking into projects that you find appealing, and see what kind of requirements there are. I personally have been looking into imaging (like CT, MRI, fMRI, x-ray) where there is alot of new development going on. Less biological knowledge is needed than the ability to do real-time graphics set up. Another big problem is the ability to work with doctors or other professionals; most have very little technical knowledge. They often don't care about the details of the project, but rather that it is fast, elegant and incredibly easy to use. (Easy for you is _not_ easy for them. I took a whole design class in how doctors and nurses abused medical equipment) If this is something you are interested in, I would do some research on the web. The Mayo Clinic (http://www.mayo.edu) has some very good links for biomedical/comp sci cross-over work. The biomedical field is still small enough that networking is one of the biggest tools available. Get in touch with professors and post-grads who can point you towards anywhere you want to go, and also fill in any holes in your medical background.
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It is also important to note that patients recieve treatment as well as councelling regarding "posture and stress-reducing relaxation techniques" This knowledge may be as important if not more so in treating workers with this disorder.
With the millions of dollars spend each year on worker's compensation claims, a mere $45/visit seems a blessing to insurance companies everywhere. Hopefully this is a treatment that works over the long-run.
It is important to note that the study focused only on men who had been abused. It has been well established that anyone who has been abused is more prone to destructive behavior. What would be more significant is if a study group of people with the gene found a significant portion of that population, regardless of upbringing, had criminal or anti-social tendencies.
I also found it positive that the article stated several times that genes do not define a person and that there are more serious problems at hand when discussing crime than prevention through opression.
If you really want to know more about this kind of research, check out the Journal of Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine. (check university libraries for this publication). They have published similar studies, and also report other space/aviation related research. Since they are an actual journal instead of mass media, all their data and analysis is included. I havn't found a digital version, sorry.
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I've been looking forward to seeing some of the Japanese style phones in the US. I'm really sick of the large and plain looking phones, perhaps American companies will take a hint.
As a biomedical engineering student, I've found that there are alot of projects looking for skilled programmers, but each problem may have a completely different need on the technical end. I would reccomend looking into projects that you find appealing, and see what kind of requirements there are. I personally have been looking into imaging (like CT, MRI, fMRI, x-ray) where there is alot of new development going on. Less biological knowledge is needed than the ability to do real-time graphics set up. Another big problem is the ability to work with doctors or other professionals; most have very little technical knowledge. They often don't care about the details of the project, but rather that it is fast, elegant and incredibly easy to use. (Easy for you is _not_ easy for them. I took a whole design class in how doctors and nurses abused medical equipment) If this is something you are interested in, I would do some research on the web. The Mayo Clinic (http://www.mayo.edu) has some very good links for biomedical/comp sci cross-over work. The biomedical field is still small enough that networking is one of the biggest tools available. Get in touch with professors and post-grads who can point you towards anywhere you want to go, and also fill in any holes in your medical background.