no kuting wenno ubbing pay dagiti pusa, kapudpudotan wenno kagatgatelanda nga aggantil wenno aginnatil wenno aginnangaw: agkinkinnamat, agtintinniliw, agginginnabo, agkinkinnaramut, agkinkinnagat.
vinediok dagitoy dua a dumaddadakkel a pusami iti panarimaanda nga aggangantil. impanko iti youtube. ket adtoy man:
mabalinyo a buyaen dagiti dadduma a youtube videok ditoy (pasensiaanyon, agpasikat dagiti annakko a babbai a trying hard a kumanta piman).
near-death experience is a biological experience…
kano.
dagitay natay wenno dandani natay a “nagungar” a nakapadas kano a timmangwa wenno nagna iti dalan nga agturong wenno agngudo iti gloria wenno langit–saan kano nga agpayso a langit daydiay, kuna dagiti agsuksukisok.
Light at end of the tunnel over near death experiences
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
(Filed: 11/04/2006)Some describe a journey along a tunnel towards a light. Many say the light exudes warmth and forgiveness. Others report that gazing down on themselves in an operating theatre made them certain of life after death.
Throughout history, there have been accounts of people experiencing visions on the brink of death, what are now called near-death experiences. There are dozens of books and films on the subject, even a Journal of Near Death Studies in America, and a conference planned this October in Houston, Texas.
Today, new evidence is published that backs the idea that the near-death experience is a biological experience, rather than anything to do with a larger, spiritual dimension, a glimpse of heaven, or the existence of the soul.
People who have had near- death experiences are able to slip into dream sleep more easily than those who have not had one, according to a study published in Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
“I see it as an activation of certain brain regions that are also active during the dream state,” said Prof Kevin Nelson, a neurologist and lead study author, from the University of Kentucky, Lexington.
“However, I hesitate to call it dreaming or dreaming while awake. This is the first testable hypothesis of a biological basis for these experiences.”
For his study, a near-death experience was defined as a time during a life-threatening episode when a person experienced a variety of feelings, including a sense of being outside of one’s body, unusual alertness, seeing an intense light, and a feeling of peace.
The study compared 55 people with near-death experiences with 55 people of the same age and gender who had not had them.
It found that people with near-death experiences were more likely to have a sleep-wake system in which the boundaries between sleep and wakefulness were not as clearly regulated, and the dream sleep state - when there is rapid eye movement - can intrude into normal wakeful consciousness.
Examples of “REM intrusion” include waking up and feeling that you cannot move - sleep paralysis - having sudden muscle weakness in your legs, and hearing sounds just before falling asleep or just after waking up that other people cannot hear.
Of the people with near- death experiences, 60 per cent reported REM intrusion, compared with 24 per cent of people who had not had near-death experiences.
“These findings suggest that REM-state intrusion contributes to near-death experiences,” said Prof Nelson.
Prof Nelson said other factors supported this. Several features of near-death experiences are also associated with the dream state, for example, the feeling of being outside of one’s body and being surrounded by light.
Because the brain turns off the body’s ability to move during dreaming, muscles can lose their tone, or tension.
“During a crisis that occurs with REM-state intrusion, this lack of muscle tone could reinforce a person’s sense of being dead and convey the impression of death to other people,” Prof Nelson said.
He added that a biological explanation was “spiritually neutral”. “We, as neurologists, address the how of these experiences coming about but not the why,” he said.
no biolohikal laeng a “langit” di ket kasla no kuan orgasmo a marikna, kasla ‘tay panagimasmo no kua no umalimpatokka iti sex?
ania metten, ibelbellengda laeng gayam ti selpon no maumaandan, nangruna iti helsinki idiay finland (a pagtataudan ti nokia). no didan kursunada wenno no dumaanen wenno no adda bassit dadaelna ti selponda, i-flushdan iti inidoro sada gumatang laengen iti kabarbaro!
basa:
Toilet-disposed mobiles menace Helsinki’s sewers
Tech down the pan
By Jan Libbenga
Published Wednesday 16th November 2005 12:52 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/16/phones_down_the_toilet/More and more mobile phones are turning up in the sewage system of the Helsinki Metropolitan area, according to Helsinki Water, which serves over one million households. It’s not known if the phones are purposely or accidentally disposed of, but with 4.8m mobile users in Finland, it’s reasonable to expect a certain number of toilet-related mobile incidents.
Helsink Water didn’t supply exact numbers, but dropping mobiles down the loo is pretty common elsewhere too. In the UK alone, as estimated 600,000 mobiles are flushed every year. As mobile phones get smaller and smaller, this number will undoubtedly increase, although dropping a cell phone down the pan is still only number six on a list of mobile phone accidents compiled by Swedish retailers. Most mobiles apparently come a cropper as a result of tight jeans.
At the sewage treatment plant in Viikinmäki in Finland, one thousand tons of solid waste, equalling 200 truckloads, is collected every year. Apart from mobile phones, false teeth, toys, cameras and even torches are found.
Those misplaced items are difficult to remove and will eventually cause system blockages, environmental manager Yrjö Lundström warned newspaper Helsinki Sanomat today. According to Helsinki Water, annual waste treatment fees are increasing as a result of the rubbish found in Finnish sewers. ®
ditoy filipinas kamman nga ibellengda dagita dida kaykayat a selpon!
maymaysa a tao ti nagtaudan ti kaputotan ti mapan a maysa-ket-gudua a riwriw a tao? interesting.
1.5m Chinese ‘descendants of one man’
Research into an unusually high prevalence of a particular set of genes in China has suggested that 1.5 million Chinese men are direct descendants of Giocangga, the grandfather of the founder of the Qing dynasty.
Giocangga’s extraordinary number of descendants, concentrated mainly in north-east China and Mongolia, are thought to be a result of the many wives and concubines his offspring took.
Dr Chris Tyler-Smith, a geneticist working at Britain’s Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, made the finding, based on a study of a set of genes on the male Y chromosome.
He told the BBC World Service’s Science In Action programme that these genes provided a “genetic surname” of the family to which each man belonged.
“What we did was analyse around 1,000 men from that part of the world,” he said.
“We noticed just two types of Y chromosome that were extraordinarily frequent - one of them making up around 3% of our sample.
“When we looked at it more carefully, we found that it was not present in the majority population in that area, the Han. But in the minorities, including the Mongolians, it was present at around 5%.”
‘Good chance of survival’
Scientists were then able to work out roughly where the special genes came from.
They established the origin was north-east China, around 500 years ago.
More accurate analysis then found that this particular genetic code first appeared just before the Qing dynasty, which came to the fore in 1616 and had conquered China by 1644.
“We soon realised there was a major historical event going on at this time - the establishment of the Qing dynasty, which conquered China and ruled for several hundred years,” Dr Tyler-Smith said.
“It was ruled by the Qing imperial nobility, who were a highly privileged elite class, and they had several wives and concubines.
“Because of the privilege, they could have had many children - and those children would have had a good chance of survival.”
At the time of Giocangga, the population of China was about 100 million - compared with 1.3 billion today.
This means that the average Chinese man at the time of Giocangga would only have around 20 descendants living today - in marked contrast to Giocangga’s 1.5 million men.
“The difference is accounted for by the large number of wives and concubines - and in particular, this practice being linked to the Y chromosome for many generations,” Dr Tyler-Smith added.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4396246.stmPublished: 2005/11/01 15:10:17 GMT
© BBC MMV
ala, ket ni ngata met solomon ket rinibribu met idi ti asawa ken kamalalana?
makapababa kanot’ iq ti panagpayubyob? ngata? ket adu met ti ammok ken am-ammok a masirib a managtabako wenno managsigarilio. nga ad-adda kano pay tumadem tiisipda no kasta nga agpayubyobda. ngem dia la ammo, a. basaenyo:
Smoking associated with lower IQ, study finds
Smokers often say that smoking a cigarette helps them concentrate and feel more alert. But years of tobacco use may have the opposite effect, dimming the speed and accuracy of a person’s thinking ability and bringing down their IQ, according to a new study led by University of Michigan researchers.
The association between long-term smoking and diminished mental proficiency in 172 alcoholic and non-alcoholic men was a surprising finding from a study that set out to examine alcoholism’s long-term effect on the brain and thinking skills.
While the researchers confirmed previous findings that alcoholism is associated with thinking problems and lower IQ, their analysis also revealed that long-term smoking is too. The effect on memory, problem-solving and IQ was most pronounced among those who had smoked for years. Among the alcoholic men, smoking was associated with diminished thinking ability even after alcohol and drug use were accounted for.
The findings are the first to suggest a direct relationship between smoking and neurocognitive function among men with alcoholism. And, the results suggest that smoking is associated with diminished thinking ability even among men without alcohol problems.
The new findings, released online before publication by the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, were made by a team from the U-M Medical School’s Addiction Research Center, or UMARC, and their colleagues at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and Michigan State University.
Lead author Jennifer Glass, Ph.D., a research assistant professor in the U-M Department of Psychiatry, cautions that the findings need to be duplicated by other studies before any conclusions are made about smoking’s effect on the brain, or before the findings can be considered relevant to women.
But, she says, the findings should prompt alcoholism researchers to re-examine their data for any impact from smoking — a factor that is not usually taken into account in studies of alcoholism’s effects on the brain, despite the fact that 50 percent to 80 percent of alcoholics smoke. Meanwhile, the U-M-led team is launching a study that will examine the issue in adolescents, and plans to test the 172 men again soon.
“We can’t say that we’ve found a cause-and-effect relationship between smoking and decreased thinking ability, or neurocognitive proficiency,” says Glass. “But we hope our findings of an association will lead to further examination of this important issue. Perhaps it will help give smokers one more reason to quit, and encourage quitting smoking among those who are also trying to control their drinking.”
Many alcoholism-recovery programs don’t emphasize quitting smoking, even though smoking can be a social and possibly chemical “cue” associated with alcohol consumption.
Glass notes that her team’s paper is being published, coincidentally, at the same time as a paper from a team at the University of California, San Francisco, in which brain scans showed that alcoholics who smoke have lower brain volume than alcoholics who don’t smoke, and that cognitive function decreases with brain volume among non-smoking alcoholics, but not smoking alcoholics.
Taken together with previous epidemiological studies, the two new papers feed a growing body of evidence for a link between long-term smoking and thinking ability, says Robert Zucker, Ph.D., professor of Psychology in the U-M Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, and director of the UMARC. Zucker is senior author on the new paper led by Glass.
“The exact mechanism for smoking’s impact on the brain’s higher functions is still unclear, but may involve both neurochemical effects and damage to the blood vessels that supply the brain,” Zucker says. “This is consistent with other findings that people with cardiovascular disease and lung disease tend to have reduced neurocognitive function.”
The data for the new paper by Glass, Zucker and their colleagues at U-M and Michigan State University, come from an ongoing longitudinal, or long-term, project that uses interviews and standardized research questionnaires to look at mental and physical health issues in families, measured every three years.
The study, which has run for more than fifteen years and recently was funded for another five, is supported by the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health. The new work that will explore these relationships further in youth is being funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, also a part of the NIH.
In their ninth year in the study, participants completed the MicroCog Assessment of Cognitive Function, a well-established standard battery of tests that assess short-term memory, immediate and delayed story recall, verbal analogies, mathematical reasoning and visual-spatial processing.
Scores for each test, and a global proficiency score, are based on the speed and accuracy of a person’s responses, adjusted for age and education level. The participants also took a short form of the standard IQ test, and their scores were adjusted for age.
Forty of the men had clinically diagnosable alcoholism at the time of the test, though none had been drinking within an hour of the tests. Twenty-four of these men also were smokers. The study also included 63 men who had had alcoholism earlier in life, 29 of whom smoked; and 69 men who had never been alcoholic, 13 of whom smoked. All smokers were allowed to smoke at will during the testing session, so none were in a nicotine-deprived state when they took the neurocognitive tests.
Glass and her colleagues analyzed the participants’ scores using two standard measures of long-term drinking and smoking behavior: lifetime alcohol problem severity, or LAPS, and pack-years, a measure that takes into account the number of packs of cigarettes a person smoked each day and the number of years they smoked that much.
Across the board, both smoking and drinking showed an effect: Higher pack-years and LAPS scores were both significantly associated with lower global cognitive proficiency scores and IQ.
When the researchers limited the analysis to those participants who had ever had a diagnosis of alcoholism during their lifetime, they still found a significant association between LAPS scores and IQ, and between pack-years and both IQ and overall cognitive proficiency. In fact, the impact of heavy lifetime smoking history was greater than the effect of lifetime drinking history.
This finding, Glass says, means that alcoholism researchers who have consistently found evidence of cognitive deficits among alcoholics — but who have not taken smoking into account in their analysis — may actually be seeing a combined effect of smoking and alcohol consumption among alcoholic study participants who smoke. Further analyses of these data, with smoking separated out as a variable just as hard drug use is often separated, is needed, she says.
source: http://www.hmnews.org/article2720.html
no ngata agkalika iti daga ket ipaturay a ti kaunegna ket uray la a malsok ti lubong, sadino ngata a batog ti rummuaram no kua?
mabalinmo itan a maammuan. tapno masigurom a saan a baybay, taaw, lipnok wenno karayan wenno disierto ti rummuaram. mabalinmon a karkuluen.
padasenyo.
pinadasko. no agkaliak ditoy tuguegarao, rummuarakto somewhere iti kabakiran iti nagbedngan ti bolivia ken brazil!
awanen ni hurricane katrina a nangdalapus iti gulf coast, ngem ad-adda a damka ken kas-ang ti imbatina a layus ita iti lousiana, nangruna iti new orleans, ken kaaripingna nga estados.
adda naala a satellite images ti layus iti new orleans ken biloxi, mississipi, kitaenyo.
adtoy ti dua a buya iti law-ang ti new orleans: sakbay (high quality nga image, 4.40 mb a .jpg file), ken kalpasan (3.21 mb a .jpg file) ti panangidadanes ni katrina.
nagkaro a layus gayam, nakasaksaknap no kitaem iti ngato. maipalagip dagiti nakitatayo idi a satellite images ti tsunami idiay indonesia, sri lanka, thailand. umarngi a delubio.
kayatyot’ agbuya iti bangkay? kadagiti parte ti bagi ken lalaem? nalalatan, kimbet, kimraang a bangkay nga agpaparang dagiti naalas-as a lasag ken pennetna ken dagiti nawarwar nga ur-uratna?
inkayo iti daytoy a museo idiay tampa, florida ta madama ti exhibitda iti aganay a 20 a bangkay ken nadumaduma nga organo ti bagi.
adu dagiti komontra, adu met ti mangayon.
kuna dagiti di manganamong a respetarenda koma met ti dignidad dagitoy a bangkay kas tao. a respetarenda koma met ti ipapatay dagitoy. kuna met dagiti mangipalugod nga awan duma dagitoy dagiti pabuya wenno display a mummy. nga educational met kano daytoy nga panangexibit kadagitoy a bangkay.
hmm, adda met koma kasta, aya, iti filipinas. ania ngata’t makuna dagiti pinoy? dida la ketdi ngata a kayat ta iti culturatayo, dakkel ti respetotayo iti natay ken iti minataytayo.
di la ammo, a.
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