Showing posts with label quality of life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quality of life. Show all posts

9/08/2008

How to increase life expectancy?

A study conducted more than 16 000 university students, about their health and lifestyles, has found that the lowest rates of death are in groups that have increased their physical activity.

Those who burn 2 000 or more calories a week, have 28 percent less likely to death, that those men who exercised less or who simply do not carry out any physical activity.

7/09/2008

Pills, placebo and quality of life

A study by the Institute of Clinical Research of Duke University in Durham (USA), conducted with 7,600 patients suffering from chronic heart disease has shown that those who regularly took a drug as both a placebo twice suffered fewer complications than Skips shots of medication.

For researchers, people who follow it to the letter are also those that tend to obey the doctor's advice, like leaving alcohol and snuff and exercising, practices that also improve their quality of life.
Experts suspect that this "placebo effect" has more to do with the way of being of each person who submits to study with a particular pharmaceutical effect.

5/10/2008

Euthanasia. The right to live

To be able to speak from Right to the Life and the Euthanasia, first would have to be defined at least the two notions: Euthanasia and Right to the Life, for first o'clock are definitions like those that we will see next :

An use normatizado: "Death without physical" suffering or "the one that are caused voluntarily."
Another use is Fáctico "death without pain" or "death in state of grace."
Or that of "Fight against the suffering to any price."
Suppression of the life in an incurable sick person, be own on demand or of your family, the physician or the state; decision of abstaining of extraordinary, considered means disproportioned in the end stage.
Before this discrepancy of meanings, you are to see the history of the word, looking at the meanings that he/she have had throughout the time:

In the Greco-Roman world it is to "die good", to die well, the one that have died well. But these three terms have received diverse meanings throughout the history, let us look at the fact first of having a to "die good" (without pain):

In the Greco-Roman world, ésto means dying well, without pain, you don't keep in mind the help when dying. Cicero gives meaning to the word like worthy, honest and glorious" "death.

In the Greek History, Hippocrates in your oath affirm that you won't give mortal medicine no matter how much they request it to him. Plato, says the opposite in the republic: You will allow to die to those who are not healthy of body."

In the Romans, the practice is multiple: Death without pain fearing confronting the suffering and the own destruction consciously.

The Stoic ones, come this way the Euthanasia: Séneca: You are "preferable to take off the life, to an unconscious life and with suffering." Epícteto preaches the death like a statement of the free will.

Nowadays it is considered to the life like an inalienable right, when opting for the euthanasia, I am giving my freedom and at the same time putting an end to her.

2/06/2008

Does the Brain imitate Google?

A recent studio assures that the great searcher of internet works as a human brain, linking millions of web page from a similar way to the neurons.

When Google entered in our lives, you still showed up before that population of Internauts petty as the "most automated" searcher. In this time (you already make more than one decade) the search engines were quite mediocre and subjective, for blame of the human intervention. More than searchers, were really index aligned by people and, therefore, they were not neither all the agile one, neither all the quick one, neither all the massive one that you began to be necessary to navigate for internet.

Google entered then as the self-operating alternative: this novel searcher's operation was based on a combination of algorithms that you/they were those that distilled the best result in feature of mathematical parameters of quality, such as the relevancy, the iteration and the importance.

And now, passing the first decade of the invention, you seem that the novelty was not such: because our brain searches the memories in a way more or less similar. The searcher that almost succeeded for your humanity" "ullage thinks as us.

How many more links, well
The key is PageRank: this algorithm is the one that solve how result will obtain when searching in Google, and you are based on a combination of factors that you/they "punctuate" each page from 0 to 10. You are a parameter of "relevance" on the remainder of contents that make that they highlight some places on others in feature of the punctuation that you/they are granted. And the most determinant element when granting that punctuation is the number of links: each link supposes a point, but not all compute in the same way. Because you are not the same as you link us the CNN that MySpace of an adolescent. The secret is the prestige.

According to a recent report in the New magazine Scientist, the operation of our memory is very similar to this architecture of nodes and networks. You could explain this way to you how neurons and synapsis are conjugated when to remember and to sort our memory, in a very similar way to as you make it PageRank of Google.

Tom's studio Griffiths consisted on comparing the words that a group of people associated in first instance to the letter TO (and then the B, and so forth) with those that Google returned before a search; in a surprising way, the results coincided: the searcher and the humans gave the same list of words for each letter. The studio group evoked the same "first terms" that the searcher, what took to the psychologists to the curious conclusion that the connections that settle down among the cells neuronales were very similar to the links of internet.

According to Griffiths, the neurons that you/they enjoy many connections become more enabled and more effective (or what are the same, more noted) than the remainder, in the same way that those webs that possess many links is appraised how more important for Google.

Comparative memory
For the neurologist María Sacrarium Boatman, the human memory works as a flowing" "trunk of data that you/they can be compared among them. To demonstrate it, coarse a petty game: "When we try to memorize those that are named non words (invented terms, nonexistent and without meaning)", the expert you explain, we "memorize with much more easiness those that sound similar to actual terms that are already stored in the 'semantic" store of the memory." You are about a structure of very similar organization of data, for example, to the form in that Google sorts the pictures in your searcher of images.

The searcher of internet appraises more the popular contents, and the memory prefers the most moving.

1. In feature of the success
GOOGLE: When we start a search, that makes the motor you are to sieve among the millions of pages that he/she have read already, to choose those that it consider better (generally, those more visited and linked).

BRAIN: On the other hand, our memory puts above the mere information, of the pure and cold data, those memories that you/they go accompanied by some meaning with emotional imposition.

2. Terms key: search handles
GOOGLE: Certain word count that you/they describe the content of a certain web makes easier than the searcher you fix in them.

BRAIN: In a same way, our memory reacts in an active way before having determined words or images "fetish" that you/they boost us and they bring back our memories.

3. The interest: the approaches of 'quality"
GOOGLE: You give to each page a punctuation that depend (for command of pettier to more importance) on the number of visits, the content and the quantity of links.

BRAIN: The memory also appraises the links: plus those that tie a certain memory with sensorial (odors, flavors.) information that make it more alive.

12/02/2007

For that to Recycle

It is thought that the popularity of the term to recycle help to the global agreement of a true definition. However, we find that a true definition doesn't exist of what this term involves. For the public in general, to recycle is synonymous of gathering materials to return them to use. A quite accurate definition indicates us that the recycling is any process where cutting materials are gathered and transform in new materials that can be used or sold as new products or raw materials.

The recycling process is bare and he/she can help us to resolve many of the problems created by the form of up-to-date life. They can survive big quantities of natural nonrenewable petitions when in the production processes recycled materials are used. The renewable petitions, as the trees, they can also be saved. The usage of recycled products diminishes the energy consumption. When they waste away less combustible fossils, less CO2 will be generated and therefore there will be sour less rain and he/she will decrease the effect hothouse.

In the financial environment the recycling can generate many employments. A great labor work force is needed to gather the appropriate materials for the recycling and it stops its later classification. A good recycling process is able to generate very good earnings.

This process has obvious benefits, however also some barriers that it is necessary to overcome exist. Maybe the main problem to which you/they face those that want to generate the recycling process, is the ullage of education of the society in general on this aspect. The societies commonly don't understand what is passing to the planet, especially in what refers to the natural petitions. The social problems related with the recycling are not only solved with the education. The societies spread to resist to the changes. The traditional cycle of acquire-consume-discarding is very difficult of breaking. To recycle in the office or in the homestead it requires of an extra effort to separate the materials. It will always be more convenient the habit of throwing everything toward it was. The investigation has made him to be possible the reduction in value of residual, driving to the development of new technologies, guaranteeing that the retrieval pointer and of having recycled of made up of chlorine and derivative products, be increased in the future. The installation of different plants of having recycled of materials, gives place to the creation of workstations and a better employment of the petitions in comparison to the incineration.

11/29/2007

Modern grandparents

The improvement in the quality and quantity of life has changed the pattern of grandparents intensely with which we were years ago. Although the birth of a grandson implies a great mobilization for its grandparents, it is no longer given in a land in which there is not anything or almost nothing else that to wait, but rather in most of the cases, they arrive to the life of beings that you/they are still very active, independent and with personal interests.   
  
The grandsons arrive to the life of the grandparents when these in the middle of operation are, with multiple activities, for that that the relationship, the encounter spaces for both generations vary, and they are given in a very different way regarding which you/they were last century.  
  
The appearance of maternal centers that you/they take charge of the children from so tiny and the lack of time free with which the grandparents counted, he/she has made that the quality of the relationship has varied. In most of the cases, they are not quines they take care exclusively of the grandsons, but those who share, in some situations, the upbringing. This has recreated in many cases the relationship, not being already mom's substitutes and dad, but rather they really appear in the life of the grandsons occupying the place of the grandparents.  
  
Without any doubt in most of the cases, they continue being par excellence people in who more the parents trust the care of their children, as substitutes. They continue being for the parents a permanent source of support to which is appealed in front of the doubts, uncertainties about the education, be this way it stops then to criticize them or to remind them how much of that that now advise they didn't put it into practice when they educated them to them. They continue being many times “the recesses” affectionate for the boy, where he/she can eat things that he/she is not able to at home, to go to bed later or to have somebody dear that plays with him, it counts him stories and he/she gives him extra affection.  
  
  
As in any human relationship, and neither that to speak of this so intense, it is natural that conflicts arise. For the parents who begin a new one on the way to responsibility, passing themselves to be parents, the necessity arises of being proven in its new function that is independent of the opinion of its own parents and putting into practice that that I eat children feels to have learned, either to repeat it or not. For the grandparents, the relationship with their grandsons much times it is lived as the possibility that the life offers them of liquidating bills, of repairing. This removes them the weight of the responsibility of being the main ones relating educational and it allows them to enjoy the children having the experience that you/they have given them the years. It is of waiting then that they are sometimes exceeded in their functions or in their critics.