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And ‘Sick || Medical sociology

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the March 31st, 2008

Medical sociology is the study of individual and group behaviors with respect to health and illness. Thus “medical” is a little simplistic, as the focus is not only on medical professionals or their behaviours, but also focuses on human behavioural responses to health and illness.

Medical sociology is concerned with individual and group responses aimed at assessing well-being, maintaining health, acting upon real or perceived illness, interacting with health care systems, and maximising health in the face of physiologic or functional derangement. It also analyses the impact of the psychological conditions resulting from our environment on our health.

Talcott Parsons is often considered the father of medical sociology because of his description of the ‘Sick Role’. This describes the difference between the role of a sick person as opposed to the ‘Social Role’ of a healthy person. He defines the sick role as defining the motivation of the patient. Curiously enough, Parsons makes no mention of the role of the doctor or other medical institutions. The sick role comprises four aspects: (1) exemption from normal social role responsibilities, (2) the privilege of not being held responsible for being sick, (3) the desire to get better and (4) the obligation to find proper help and follow that advice.

The field of medical sociology is usually taught as part of a wider sociology, clinical psychology or health studies degree course, or on dedicated Master’s degree courses where it is sometimes combined with the study of medical ethics/bioethics.

In the UK, institutions which run Masters degree courses in Medical Sociology include the University of Nottingham and the University of London at Royal Holloway and Goldsmiths College.


See also

Important publications in medical sociology.

Is a former President || Roger Abiut

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the March 31st, 2008

Roger Tom Abiut (born 1972?) is a politician from Vanuatu. He is a former speaker of parliament of that country and, in that capacity, served as acting President twice.

Abiut is a member of the Vanuatu Labor Party. After becoming the Speaker of Parliament in 2003, he became acting president on March 24, 2004, when the five-year term of President John Bani expired. He served in that position until April 12, when a new president, Alfred Maseng. was elected by the parliament and the presidents of the regional councils. Maseng was removed as president on May 11, 2004, and Abiut became acting president again.
Abiut lost his seat in Parliament shortly after, in the parliamentary elections of July 7, 2004, and therefore lost his positions as speaker of parliament and acting President on July 28, 2004, at the first session of Parliament. The Vanuatu Labor Party no longer has any representatives in Parliament.

Of the Northamptonshire Magic || River Tove

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the March 31st, 2008

The River Tove is a river in England, a tributary of the River Great Ouse.


Geography

Rising in south Northamptonshire it flows for around 15 miles past the town of Towcester (which means ‘camp on the Tove’) before meeting the Ouse near Milton Keynes. Its final 5 miles form part of the border between Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire, running alongside the Grand Union Canal.

Regularly perform || Luis Agote

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the March 31st, 2008

Luis Agote (September 22, 1868-November 12, 1954) was an Argentinian physician and researcher.

He studied first in the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, and then un the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where he was also a teacher.

Luis Agote was one of the first to perform a non-direct blood transfusion using sodium citrate as an anticoagulant. While Agote was the first to perform this procedure in Latin America, the Belgian doctor Albert Hustin was the first to perform it world-wide. The procedure took place in Rawson hospital in the city of Buenos Aires on November 9, 1914.


External links

  • Agote’s short biograhpy (Spanish)
  • Biography (Spanish)

Worked with || Paul Rudish

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the March 30th, 2008

Paul Rudish is an American animator who helped create Dexter’s Laboratory, The PowerPuff Girls, Samurai Jack, and the Clone Wars. He worked in Hanna-Barbera with Genndy Tartakovsky. Then he worked at Cartoon Network Studios with Genndy Tartakovsky. He studied in the Character Animation program at California Institute of the Arts. His father, Rich Rudish, was art director for the 1985 movie, Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer.

Advisor on || William Hoffman

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the March 30th, 2008

William Hoffman can refer to:

  • American novelist William Hoffman
  • American Lt. Colonel William Hoffman
  • American baseball player Bill Hoffman
  • American hacker Billy Hoffman
  • German soldier Wilhelm Hoffman


American Entrepreneur and Business Advisor

  • American entrepreneur and business advisor [William Hoffman]


American Imaginarian

  • American imaginarian [Bill Hoffman]

Advisor on a number || Jim Wilkinson (U.S. politician)

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the March 30th, 2008

James R. “Jim” Wilkinson is the Deputy National Security Advisor for Communications in the administration of U. S. President George W. Bush.


Timeline

  • 1992-2000: Worked in Congress for Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives Dick Armey
  • 2000: Spokesman for U. S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during Presidential Transition
  • 2001-2002: Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Communications for Planning
  • 2001-2002: Managed “Coalition Information Centers” for war in Afghanistan
  • 2003-2005: Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Communications
  • 2003: Managed hundreds of international correspondents covering war in a center in Qatar
  • 2005-2006: Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
  • 2006: Chief of Staff for Secretary Hank Paulson at the United States Department of the Treasury (currently)


Source

  • White House biography


External link

  • James R. Wilkinson (at SourceWatch.org)

Northamptonshire Magic Club and || Hanging Houghton

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the March 29th, 2008

Hanging Houghton is a village in the Daventry district of the county of Northamptonshire in England.

Hanging Houghton is on the A508 road between Brixworth and Lamport. It is mentioned in the stories of “B.B.” Watkins-Pitchford. Hanging Houghton’s poachers were as notorious as those from Brixworth.


External links

Barry Jones || Willie Jones

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the March 29th, 2008

Willie Jones is the name of more than one notable man:

  • Willie Jones (1740-1801), North Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress
  • Willie Jones (1925-1983), U.S. Major League Baseball player

There are also:

  • Willam Martin Jones (1920-1977), U.S. jazz pianist, known as Willie Jones
  • Willie Jones, III (born 1968), U.S. musician and drummer

The secrets of || Secrets of the Soul

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the March 28th, 2008

Secrets of the Soul” is an episode from the fifth season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5.


Synopsis

Dr. Franklin discovers a secret hidden by the Hyach.


Arc significance

  • Through Lyta, Byron and his telepaths are aware of the Vorlon’s role in their development.


Production details


Trivia


External link

Was shown || B3ZS

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the March 27th, 2008

B3ZS is an abbreviation for bipolar with three-zero substitution, a T-carrier line code in which bipolar violations are deliberately inserted if the stream of user data contains a string of 3 or more consecutive zeros.

B3ZS is used to ensure a sufficient number of transitions to maintain system synchronization when the user data stream contains an insufficient number of “ones” to do so.

Ones in a data stream are used by receiving equipment to synchronize with the sending equipment. If there is an insufficient number of ones in the data stream, then the receiver may not stay syncronized to the sender, which can cause data errors in BOTH directions. To avoid this problem, ones are sent with alternating polarity - a positive pulse is followed by a negative pulse, which is then followed by another positive pulse, etc.

Long streams of zeroes, therefore, can cause complications. Without enough ones in the data stream, there is a risk of losing synchronization. To overcome this, strings of zeroes are replaced with strategically placed one-bits. Sometimes these one bits do NOT alternate polarity as they normally do, but instead are of the same polarity (2 positive pulses in a row, or 2 negative pulses in a row). Consecutive one bits of the same polarity is known as a BPV, or Bi-Polar Violation.

The rules of B3ZS state that a string of 3 zeroes must be replaced with either:

1. 00V, where V is a BPV, that is, a bit of the same polarity as the last one-bit, OR…

2. B0V, where B is a normal one-bit, and V is a BPV

For example, consider the data stream:
10010001000001000000 , where 3 consecutive zeroes are shown in bold-face

Wherever there are 3 consecutive 0’s, one of the two BPV codes discussed above will be substituted. Therefore, when this example data stream is sent down the line, it will be sent as

+00-00-+00+00-00-+0+

BPVs are again shown in bold. According to the rules of B3ZS, no 2 BPVs can be of the same polarity. To avoide this, the B0V sequence is used, which is also shown in italics above.

B3ZS is generally used on T3 lines in the North American hierarchy.


See also

Other line codes that have 3 states:

  • hybrid ternary code
  • bipolar encoding
  • MLT-3 encoding
  • 4B3T