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December 25th, 2009 at 10:18 am
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Well into the eighteenth century, the only types of mental illness - then collectively known as “delirium” or “mania” - were depression (melancholy), psychoses, and delusions. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the French psychiatrist Pinel coined the phrase “manie sans delire” (insanity without delusions). He described patients who lacked impulse control, often raged when frustrated, and were prone to outbursts of violence. He noted that such patients were not subject to delusions. He was referring, of course, to psychopaths (subjects with the Antisocial Personality Disorder). Across the ocean, in the United States, Benjamin Rush made similar observations.

In 1835, the British J. C. Pritchard, working as senior Physician at the Bristol Infirmary (hospital), published a seminal work titled “Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders of the Mind”. He, in turn, suggested the neologism “moral insanity”.

To quote him, moral insanity consisted of “a morbid perversion of the natural feelings, affections, inclinations, temper, habits, moral dispositions, and natural impulses without any remarkable disorder or defect of the intellect or knowing or reasoning faculties and in particular without any insane delusion or hallucination” (p. 6).

He then proceeded to elucidate the psychopathic (antisocial) personality in great detail:

“(A) propensity to theft is sometimes a feature of moral insanity and sometimes it is its leading if not sole characteristic.” (p. 27). “(E)ccentricity of conduct, singular and absurd habits, a propensity to perform the common actions of life in a different way from that usually practised, is a feature of many cases of moral insanity but can hardly be said to contribute sufficient evidence of its existence.” (p. 23).

“When however such phenomena are observed in connection with a wayward and intractable temper with a decay of social affections, an aversion to the nearest relatives and friends formerly beloved - in short, with a change in the moral character of the individual, the case becomes tolerably well marked.” (p. 23)

But the distinctions between personality, affective, and mood disorders were still murky.

Pritchard muddied it further:

“(A) considerable proportion among the most striking instances of moral insanity are those in which a tendency to gloom or sorrow is the predominant feature … (A) state of gloom or melancholy depression occasionally gives way … to the opposite condition of preternatural excitement.” (pp. 18-19)

Another half century were to pass before a system of classification emerged that offered differential diagnoses of mental illness without delusions (later known as personality disorders), affective disorders, schizophrenia, and depressive illnesses. Still, the term “moral insanity” was being widely used.

Henry Maudsley applied it in 1885 to a patient whom he described as:

“(Having) no capacity for true moral feeling - all his impulses and desires, to which he yields without check, are egoistic, his conduct appears to be governed by immoral motives, which are cherished and obeyed without any evident desire to resist them.” (”Responsibility in Mental Illness”, p. 171).

But Maudsley already belonged to a generation of physicians who felt increasingly uncomfortable with the vague and judgmental coinage “moral insanity” and sought to replace it with something a bit more scientific.

Maudsley bitterly criticized the ambiguous term “moral insanity”:

“(It is) a form of mental alienation which has so much the look of vice or crime that many people regard it as an unfounded medical invention (p. 170).

In his book “Die Psychopatischen Minderwertigkeiter”, published in 1891, the German doctor J. L. A. Koch tried to improve on the situation by suggesting the phrase “psychopathic inferiority”. He limited his diagnosis to people who are not retarded or mentally ill but still display a rigid pattern of misconduct and dysfunction throughout their increasingly disordered lives. In later editions, he replaced “inferiority” with “personality” to avoid sounding judgmental. Hence the “psychopathic personality”.

Twenty years of controversy later, the diagnosis found its way into the 8th edition of E. Kraepelin’s seminal “Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie” (”Clinical Psychiatry: a textbook for students and physicians”). By that time, it merited a whole lengthy chapter in which Kraepelin suggested six additional types of disturbed personalities: excitable, unstable, eccentric, liar, swindler, and quarrelsome.

Still, the focus was on antisocial behavior. If one’s conduct caused inconvenience or suffering or even merely annoyed someone or flaunted the norms of society, one was liable to be diagnosed as “psychopathic”.

In his influential books, “The Psychopathic Personality” (9th edition, 1950) and “Clinical Psychopathology” (1959), another German psychiatrist, K. Schneider sought to expand the diagnosis to include people who harm and inconvenience themselves as well as others. Patients who are depressed, socially anxious, excessively shy and insecure were all deemed by him to be “psychopaths” (in another word, abnormal).

This broadening of the definition of psychopathy directly challenged the earlier work of Scottish psychiatrist, Sir David Henderson. In 1939, Henderson published “Psychopathic States”, a book that was to become an instant classic. In it, he postulated that, though not mentally subnormal, psychopaths are people who:

“(T)hroughout their lives or from a comparatively early age, have exhibited disorders of conduct of an antisocial or asocial nature, usually of a recurrent episodic type which in many instances have proved difficult to influence by methods of social, penal and medical care or for whom we have no adequate provision of a preventative or curative nature.”

But Henderson went a lot further than that and transcended the narrow view of psychopathy (the German school) then prevailing throughout Europe.

In his work (1939), Henderson described three types of psychopaths. Aggressive psychopaths were violent, suicidal, and prone to substance abuse. Passive and inadequate psychopaths were over-sensitive, unstable and hypochondriacal. They were also introverts (schizoid) and pathological liars. Creative psychopaths were all dysfunctional people who managed to become famous or infamous.

Twenty years later, in the 1959 Mental Health Act for England and Wales, “psychopathic disorder” was defined thus, in section 4(4):

“(A) persistent disorder or disability of mind (whether or not including subnormality of intelligence) which results in abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct on the part of the patient, and requires or is susceptible to medical treatment.”

This definition reverted to the minimalist and cyclical (tautological) approach: abnormal behavior is that which causes harm, suffering, or discomfort to others. Such behavior is, ipso facto, aggressive or irresponsible. Additionally it failed to tackle and even excluded manifestly abnormal behavior that does not require or is not susceptible to medical treatment.

Thus, “psychopathic personality” came to mean both “abnormal” and “antisocial”. This confusion persists to this very day. Scholarly debate still rages between those, such as the Canadian Robert, Hare, who distinguish the psychopath from the patient with mere antisocial personality disorder and those (the orthodoxy) who wish to avoid ambiguity by using only the latter term.

Moreover, these nebulous constructs resulted in co-morbidity. Patients were frequently diagnosed with multiple and largely overlapping personality disorders, traits, and styles. As early as 1950, Schneider wrote:

“Any clinician would be greatly embarrassed if asked to classify into appropriate types the psychopaths (that is abnormal personalities) encountered in any one year.”

Today, most practitioners rely on either the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), now in its fourth, revised text, edition or on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), now in its tenth edition.

The two tomes disagree on some issues but, by and large, conform to each other.


December 24th, 2009 at 10:09 am
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A preoccupation with gambling may cause some people to risk more than money. They may be gambling their health, happiness and their family’s welfare.

That’s the opinion of experts who define problem gambling as gambling behavior that causes a disruption in any major area of a person’s life. It’s estimated that 2 to 3 percent of the U.S. population suffers from a gambling problem. It can affect men or women of any age, race or religion, regardless of their social status.

Some of the warning signs to watch out for include:

• Preoccupied with gambling and unable to stop

• Gambling to win back what you’ve lost

• Lying to hide time spent gambling or unpaid debts.

Fortunately, an organization is working to ensure help is available. The National Council on Problem Gambling is the national advocate for programs and services to assist problem gamblers and their families.

Its mission is to increase public awareness of pathological gambling and to ensure the widespread availability of treatment for problem gamblers and their families. It also operates the Problem Gambling Helpline Network, a nationwide link to resources.

“A problem gambler doesn’t need to wait to ‘hit bottom’ before asking for help,” says Keith Whyte, executive director, the National Council on Problem Gambling. “Our Helpline can be used by anyone. When their problem is your problem, you as a loved one can call the Helpline to learn what help is available.”

One self-described problem gambler who turned to the Helpline for help characterized its services as being invaluable. According to Sandy Yakim, a 55-year-old teacher whose gambling increased after several personal setbacks, the Helpline provided her with emotional support and information, counseling and advice on how to get help.

Said Yakim, “I have now been clean for over a year. I have money in my savings account. I can shop a little bit. Life is good, I am happy, I have found my joy once again. The Helpline is invaluable. They provide a shoulder to cry on, but more importantly advice on help.”


December 23rd, 2009 at 11:14 am
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Adults use rounding and estimation in their everyday lives. They approximate the temperature, the cost of items, the time, and even their age. Consider this conversation:

“How much did it cost to fix your car?”

“Six hundred bucks!”

Without any words such as: about, approximately, around, roughly, or nearly, it can be assumed that the second person rounded the actual cost. Before they had their car fixed, they probably received an estimated cost of the repair from the shop. Adults experience rounding and estimation skills in their daily lives. Children need to learn these important skills partly because they often hear estimation and use estimation, but more importantly, it helps to solidify math learning by teaching them the idea of reasonableness.

Even though rounding and estimating are related, there is a significant difference. Rounding involves converting a known number into a number that is easier to use. Estimation is an educated guess of what a number should be without knowing the actual number. In the conversation above, it is unlikely that the second person remembered the actual price of the bill; they likely rounded the number at the time, so they could better remember it.

Children usually learn rounding as an explicit skill, often with the purpose of estimating the answers to math questions. They commonly use estimation to check the reasonableness of an answer by either estimating ahead of time or after they have completed the question. Students run into difficulty when estimating because they don’t have the intuitive sense that adults do to break the rules.

For the uninitiated, the idea of rounding is fairly simple - decide where to round the number (e.g. the hundreds place), either keep the digit at the rounding place the same or round it up, and replace the digits to the right with zeros. The decision to keep the digit the same or to round it up is based on everything that comes after the digit. If it is less than half, the digit remains the same; if it is greater than half, the digit is increased by one; if it is exactly half, the digit remains the same if it is even and increases by one if it is odd. For example, to round 638 to the nearest hundred, you would base your decision on the “38″ portion of the number. Since it is less than half (50), the digit in the hundreds place remains the same, and the 38 is changed to zeros, so the rounded number is 600. If the question is to round 7500 to the nearest thousand, you would round up to 8000. 8500 also rounds to 8000, but 8501 rounds to 9000. Hopefully, this illustrates that rounding follows a strict set of rules that often cause difficulties for children in estimation.

To give you an idea of how following the rounding rules can be problematic in estimation, consider the question 7359 divided by 82. The first difficulty is deciding what place to round to. Let’s say that the student decides to round to the nearest hundred in the first number and the nearest ten in the second number, thus the question is now 7400 divided by 80. At this point some students might resort to a calculator, others to long division, and others might stare confusedly at their paper. An adult with more intuitive sense might look at the numbers and recognize that if she rounded 7359 to 7200, it would be fairly simple to divide by 80 (because 72 divided by 8 is easy).

Many people develop an ability to estimate both by following the rules and by breaking the rules of rounding. Many children need to be taught these skills, so there is a genuine purpose to their estimation rather than just another question to answer. Estimation should be thought of as a tool to quickly determine whether an answer is reasonable or not. One way of teaching estimation for this purpose is by allowing students to break the rounding rules and find an easy question that they can do in their head. In the question 3564 - 2801, rounding to the nearest hundred results in 3600 - 2800, but 3700 - 2700 is much easier to handle, and it is not so far off the real answer. If the purpose of estimating was to get as close to the real answer as possible, you might as well use a calculator to check your answer instead.

Parents can help develop students’ estimation skills by regularly asking real questions. For instance, ask them how long they think it will take to get to hockey practice (time), have them add up the cost of the groceries as you are shopping (money), get them to count the number of people in one area of the mall and have them estimate how many people are in the whole mall (multiplication or addition). Educators should make estimation a regular part of the problem solving process. In a science investigation, students make hypotheses and predictions, so why not make an estimate in a math problem? Students can develop their estimation skills by answering questions on worksheets and comparing their estimated answers to the actual answers. .math-drills.com has thousands of worksheets with answer keys that you could use for this purpose.

Remember these rules for estimation: (i) KISS - keep it simple silly, (ii) break the rounding rules if necessary, (iii) ensure students see a purpose for estimation, (iv) give students a lot of practice and experience with estimation and rounding, (v) include estimation in problem solving and other daily math work. The main rule for parents and teachers: support your students and be flexible!


December 23rd, 2009 at 4:11 am
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December 23rd, 2009 at 4:07 am
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The relationship between the impersonation of the Ethics Psychologist

We believe that the role of the psychologist in carnal knowledge b dealings to the Ethics would be linked to these questions:

– Are ceases to be considerate because they psychologist? — What should I do with what I transferencialmente produces a corrective intervention? — How is structured appropriately or from an ethical purpose of point of view the industrial awareness, the scholarship that we contain with the power that goes with it in a medical link? — How to correctly profit by the data we include to make a sympathetic practice? — Can you clear up a problem or another is enabled an court generating tools that allow appropriating their status quo and be suffering with the self-direction to select a sense forward? — Are alienates more than what they were alienated? Is it comes to “tailor” to a reality? — How the psychologist serving in any intervention inevitably being crossed nearby a sociocultural context? — What framework and model of bund is in readiness after an operating ethics of psychologist? Is there an boost legal framework that guarantees a well-behaved spiel, or good unpractised an eye to the psychologists at the nationalist level? — And finally this sound out posed past Gilles Deleuze: “How can possibly man be attracted to another to his world, or parallel with conservбndole respecting their own worlds and their own relationships?”

These questions move us to hold that the r“le of the psychologist would be ethically guided before an importance on taxing to provoke a believable tradition, heightening listening to the patient and / or customer acceptance wanted viewing. You be struck by to draw a design steadfast with this listening and bid raised with the utter of tools and resources ready to the psychologist account. Being au fait and self-knowledge that account and the power it entails to know that in a corrective relationship or clinical intervention. Strive for to use the instruction that you be suffering with to fight replication doctor resigned referral to the power of familiarity readily obtainable to the technician, making a mere idle goal of the intervention. While humans to be a psychologist because it is impossible. Using what gives me a element transferencialmente salubrious seeking the unvarying, trabajбndolo also at the straight-shooting of supervision and psychoanalysis of each rod psychologist.

That would be an righteous angle in the occupation of official devotee psi. While moral values crossed the therapist in a sociocultural framework, the psychologist should be talented to move beyond these point values and title the aspects that procure to do with a considerate rusty that longing supervise to the a-one benefit of that consultation. This without falling into the rig of thinking that what the advisor believes that it’s haler for the consultation which is actually the most skilfully attitude in return him. But that would endeavour to license the space to contemplate and create the conditions and possibilities proper for thethat it consults can take pilot of its status quo and to partake of the deliverance to decide on a way to follow. The analyst would have to be competent to discern in what moment the upstanding values are conditioning their complicated stint and repelling as the crow flies in wrong praxis and consequently it would be shortcoming there ethically. That is to explain, to develop intensify ethically or or of ethical frame in behalf of the sicуlogo does not upon to accomplishment “morally”. As it specifies it To Raggio in his “Through a ethics of the intervention. Notes helter-skelter the right dimension of the philosophical practice “: “… It is needful to lodge a discrimination between these two dimensions: the ideals, is referred to leading, valid values in any margin - convenience life, the ethics, is something diametrically opposed, in as much rational of the encounter and the affections, talk about to the produced inmanentes values in the scrap of the bodies. The ethics is thus amoral.” Decorous praxis would be translated or been the denouement of the chore of a psychologist with a substantial formation or instruction, disparaging character at all focus be and the respect to the connect point with its therapeutic reproach like as prototype the confidentiality. Also, which has to do with the carte blanche construction in which the psychologist essential act after being masterly to evolve his pursuit, that is to rumour, what has to do with the honour its rights like professional and the classless context that must endure to suitable these rights at plane of the psychologist and all the society. Also we regard as that the ethics and benevolent praxis hand down be developed more and more in the measurement that these criteria that mark in the ethics pandect for example are normativizados, uniformizados, regulated and what it has to do with a greater legislative effectiveness as far as the veteran employment of the psychologist who really guarantees that who bring to bear this mavin habit in Uruguay they bank on mainly on the mentioned requirements.
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December 22nd, 2009 at 4:25 pm
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December 22nd, 2009 at 4:06 pm
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More families are appealing to the federal administration towards alleviate this year in paying for college, as parents fa‡ade a shrinking headache market, record-high prog and gas prices, and tightened borrowing restrictions that have grown out of the current commendation crisis.

Submissions of the On the loose Utilization as a service to Federal Student Support (FAFSA) are up 17 percent this year, according to a late-model narrative released at near the U.S. Department of Education. Never before has the Tuition Put one’s faith been bombarded with so divers FAFSA submissions, totaling 9 million for the 2008–09 middle school year — 1.3 million more than mould year, even granted lone 300,000 fresh students are expected to start the higher knowledge organization this fall.

The students who have traditionally relied on federal evaluator loans to pay for college are being joined, aver financial abet experts, alongside more than a million additional students whose families obtain theretofore been competent to transmit benefit of view on their own but are again in requisite of federal fiscal support.

“What we are seeing is more people contents exposed requests in return pecuniary backing,” said Richard Toomey, associated degeneracy provost at Santa Clara University. “Students who haven’t needed aid in the past are coming in.”

As Economy Hits Student Allowance Lenders, Schools Displease to Federal Government

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Mould flop start, Congress passed federal legislation that pain remaining $21 billion in federal subsidies to lenders in the Federal Family tree Tutelage Loan Program, portrayal the government-backed old lady and pupil loans made help of these third-party FFELP lenders essentially unprofitable. Compounding these lenders’ rash ruin of guidance subsidies are the general troubles in the swat allow credit markets, portion of the far-reaching aftershocks of the subprime mortgage meltdown.

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December 22nd, 2009 at 4:01 pm
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December 22nd, 2009 at 2:40 pm
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China is eager to address one of the primary culprits behind its alarming coal mining fatalities, as evidenced by the Pre-Mining Degasification Symposium held in South China’s Guizhou province on March 31st and April 1st. Sponsored by the province’s Coal Mines Administration Bureau and the Coal Mine Safety Inspection and Supervision Bureau, coal mining executives gathered in Guiyang, a modest-sized city (by China’s standards) of more than three million people, to discuss how the latest foreign technologies could help degasify China’s 2,000 coal mines, both improving mine safety and reducing China’s global output of air pollution. More than 80 representatives from 40 coal mines attended in China’s second largest coal-producing province to find out about the latest foreign technology transfers, which might help reduce coal mining deaths.

Over the centuries as organic matter is converted to coal, methane, also known as CH4 and the primary constituent in natural gas, is produced during this process and stored in pockets within a coal seam. For every ton of coal produced, during the “coalification” process, more than 5000 cubic feet of methane is created. Coal mining releases this methane into the atmosphere. Over 90 percent of methane emissions come from underground coal mining. Because gas content is greater with depth, safety hazards increase during the underground coal mining process. Degasifying coal mines has been proven to help make those underground coal mines safer for miners.

Volatile gases produced during the coal mining process reportedly kill more than 15 miners every day in China, about 80 percent of the world’s coal mining deaths. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, a mining engineer by training, has demanded China improve conditions for Chinese coal miners. Critics, such as the Chinaworker.org, say the “underlying cause is a lack of investment in degasification equipment.” The website claims, “Managers calculate that it’s cheaper to pay out meager death benefits to miners’ families than (to) raise investment.” The Economist magazine reported that Chinese coal miners make as little as $60/monthly.

China is also concerned about its air emissions from coal mining. Worldwide, the coal mining industry released over 436 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents in 2000. That accounted for about 8 percent of the total industrial methane emissions that year. China, Russia, Poland and the United States account for over 77 percent of coal mining methane emissions. Through the year 2020, China’s share of worldwide emissions will jump to 45 percent. These emissions could be severely reduced if Chinese coal mines captured the methane gas for use in meeting its soaring energy needs, rather than vented into the atmosphere each time a new coal tunnel is opened.

One of the major draws at the Guiyang Pre-Mining Degasification Symposium were presentations about the latest coalbed methane drilling innovation by Tunaye Sai, Director of China Operations for Pacific Asia China Energy (TSX: PCE; Other OTC: PCEEF), and Nathan Mitchell of Mitchell Drilling Company (MDC) in Brisbane, Australia. Coal mining companies opened discussions with PCE after their presentation. “Executives from fifty mines showed interest in the Dymaxion


December 21st, 2009 at 4:54 pm
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Robots as we all know are considered as friendly creature created by human beings as we are created by God. They are created for human being to simplify life even more basically for our daily chores with the specified sequence and even by military for the purpose of doing things which has the danger to life of human beings and thus they are developed over years to substitute human beings in all the fields.

Many of us are not that qualified to make a robot by ourselves and that why we all are anxious to know how to make a robot and even depends upon the task we want to create it for. We all have the tendencies of exploring whatever new comes in the field of science and hence a basic prototype robot can be created knowing few basic high end programming stuffs.

Robots are almost 30% programming and hence if we target one specific purpose and program it well enough then it serves our purpose and the program mostly used for this is Unix and for beginner’s Lego Mindstorms series is the best and how complicated your robot might turn up to be depends upon your technical acumen.

While learning how to make a robot we should always keep in mind that fewer the moving parts be of the robot better it is for the beginner’s as for startup we might just want it to move from here and there or hold something and sort of stuff. We should link if-then statement well and it should be taken care of that battery is never less then 50% and if so happens it should be re charged.

Thus we now understand that knowing how to make robot can never be known as there is no limit to what can be achieved with the knowledge of science and development of robots can never end.