HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: t4phage@milton.u.washington.edu (Betty Kutter)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Sequence Editor wanted
Keywords: sequence editor cloning analysis
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:58:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: milton.t4phage.715550329
Organization: University of Washington


For the work I have been doing on the bacteriophage T4 genome
I have found that an editor for sequence work would be useful.
I have setup an example at the bottom of this message and
I will explain the various parts.  I would like a work space of unlimited
(something wider than 10K bases) width and 25 to 40 lines in
length.  The work space would be divided into two major areas
separated by some type of ruler.  The top space would allow up to
15 sets of sequences and their names in brackets to be entered and aligned as
shown.  Then a consensus sequence could be entered above the
ruler.  Below the ruler, the consensus sequence would be translated
to the corresponding amino acid sequence.  Preferably this
translation would be "live", changing with any change in the
consensus sequence above the ruler.  As far as output options go,
I am not very optimistic, but some type of sideways printing to an
Epson emulated printer would be adequate.  Chopping up the width
into 50-70 character wide chunks would be tolerable, with a couple
of blank lines between chunks.  Obviously, I have outlined an
optimum editor.  I am willing to look at sub-versions of this
scheme.  And anything that exceeds these specs.  


[~ma26b]  GCTCTGTTCCGTAGACAATTAAAGCAAATTTTGTC  [~ma26b]
[~ma13a]  GCTCTGTTCCGTAGACAATTAAAGCAAATTTTGTC  [~ma13a]
                    [~ma33a]  AAAGCAAATTTTGTCTACTGCTAGTCGAT...  [~ma33a]
[mt1a]    GCTCTGTTCCGTAGACAATTAA  [mt1a]   [~p50_0-] GTCGAT...  [~p50_0-]
      [~mt3a]   TTCCGTAGACAATTAAAGCAAATTTTGTCTACTGCTAGTCGA  [~mt3a]
                               
          GCTCTGTTCCGTAGACAATTAAAGCAAATTTTGTCTACTGCTAGTCGAT...
          ---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
          1       10        20        30        40        50
          AlaLeuPheArgArgGlnLeuLysGlnIleLeuSerThrAlaSerArg
           LeuCysSerValAspAsnTERSerLysPheCysLeuLeuLeuValAsp
            SerValProTERThrIleLysAlaAsnPheValTyrCysTERSer

Shane Peterson - Evergreen State College T4 lab
reply to t4phage@u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: sci.bio
From: ljones@utkvx2.utk.edu (Jones, Leslie Lamont)
Subject: Re: Migratory habits of Mediterranean eels
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 03:08:00 GMT


In article 3446, Stanley Friesen writes

>I am not sure about the Mediterranean eels, but I do know that eels are
>amoung the champion migrators in the sea, and that some do migrate from
>the U.S. coastal area to somewhere in Europe.

Which, I might add, is probably good evidence of continental drift. After all,
how did the eels "know" that there was a continent on the other side of the
ocean?
Because, millenia ago, the continents were much closer and NA to Europe was
a much shorter hop than it is today after millions of years of continental
drift.-
  Leslie Lamont Jones                                   ljones@utkvx.utk.edu
"Wildness is our tonic... We can never have enough of nature." Thoreau
From: exudeb@exu.ericsson.se (Dave Breeding, xt-dGR,)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Re: Learning NLP (was: NLP)
Date: 31 Aug 92 20:01:59 GMT
Reply-To: exudeb@exu.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Richardson TX

In article 114@steiny.com, steiny@steiny.com (Don Steiny) writes:
>Ed.Evans@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
>
>>I would like to learn and use NLP, but the cost seems
>>prohibitive for me.  Maybe I'd be better off going to a therapist to
>>learn it; what do you think?
>
>	I was talking to my friend, John Grinder, a couple of day
>ago.   He mentioned that he does not even call what he does NLP.

Lots of good comments deleted...

>	John's Phd thesis starts with a quote from Noam Chomsky that say
>(something close to): the purpose of a model is to push it as far as you
>can and see what you learn when it disintegrates.     John believed that
>then, and he believes it now.
>
>
>-don
>-- 
>Don Steiny
>Don Steiny Software
>Santa Cruz, CA 95060
>(408) 425-0382

Hi Don, it's nice to hear about the view from the top of the mountain.

Personally, I was sloshing around in a misty swamp, up to my bippy in alligators, when I bumped into the mountain.  Now that I have been able to climb above some of that, the view is clearer, and the smell is definitely fresher.  I can see a lot farther, and I realize now that it is not possible to draw a boundary around something called NLP, that everything is connected to everything, that it's just a way of looking at the world, etc.  But back then, when my boots were still full of mud and water, I neede

d a good solid handhold to take that first step up, and eye accessing patterns and anchoring were just within my reach.

Regards, Dave
From: Ed.Evans@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Re: NLP
Date: 29 Aug 92 13:29:08 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Aug 21 1992

DBX>NLP is two things:

I enjoyed and saved your post.  I did learn to cause a slight chill in
my shoulders from one of the techniques talked about in the NLP books,
but it doesn't work under any real stress.  It seems nice in hot weather
when I remember to use it.

You mention that you're due for some training, where will you go, and
what about cost?  I would like to learn and use NLP, but the cost seems
prohibitive for me.  Maybe I'd be better off going to a therapist to
learn it; what do you think?
___
 X SLMR 2.0 #1708 X No Freedom without Wilderness!

--- Maximus 2.00
Newsgroups: sci.psychology,alt.sexual.abuse.recovery
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: sexual addiction
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:36:50 GMT

I'm curious as to how one would rationalize sexual addiction would imply
being a woman-hater.  I'm not refuting your statement, just questioning
whether one would necessarily imply the other.  I mean, I hate women ...
and I'm not a sex addict.  Or is that I'm a sex addict, but I don't hate
women?  :)

JUST KIDDING! :)

Seriously, I have a friend who many would consider to be a sex addict, but
he uses sex to bolster his self-esteem, rather than to destroy his female
partner.  I've never seen him demonstrate any sort of violence, either
verbal or physical, against a woman.
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG     erc@apple.com                801/538-0177
"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
Newsgroups: sci.psychology,alt.sexual.abuse.recovery
From: rbn@ralph.rtpnc.epa.gov (Bob Boyd)
Subject: Re: sexual addiction
Reply-To: rbn@ralph.rtpnc.epa.gov
Organization: Unisys/EPA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:23:14 GMT

My understanding is that sexual addiction is very similar to other addictions. 
There are genetic, biological, environmental, medical, behavioral and spiritual models of
what the addiction is about.  The basic nature of the addiction is that it medicates
(numbs, represses, etc...) an uncomfortable/unpleasant reality for the addict.

It is very possible for the addict to learn to live in a way that is healthy, that is
free of acting out a pattern of sexual addiction.  In one sense of the word 
"control" it is impossible to "control the addiction" -- in the positive sense of 
control, it is possible and desirable for the addict to exercise positive control
by living in a moderate, balanced, and centered way.

For a really outstanding treatise on the nature of sexual addiction and recovery
check out the book:

_Don't Call It Love_ by Patrick Carnes, PhD

--
Bob Boyd                 
rbn@ralph.rtpnc.epa.gov 
Unisys/EPA
From: sandilands@hg.uleth.ca
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Grad prog in Australia
Date: 25 Aug 92 21:27:48 GMT
Reply-To: sandilands@hg.uleth.ca
Organization: University of Lethbridge

Does anyone know if there are grad programs in clinical psy or
counselling psych in Australia or NZ?  If so, where are they
?
Please respond to me personally?
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Newsgroups: sci.psychology
From: swkmorri@nuscc.nus.sg (Perry Morrison (Dr))
Subject: Re: Psychology and statistics
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 08:16:35 GMT

mgreen@cs.toronto.edu (Marc Green) writes:
: 
: If 10 subjects score 100 and 10 score 200 then the poulation mean is
: 150. Does this reflect the population? Hardly. This is obviously an
: exaggerated example, but reflects a common problem in using statistics.

No-one with any decent statistical training would use the mean of this
example as a measure of central tendancy. Clearly the distrubution is
bi-modal suggesting that in terms of your dependent variable, you have
2 "kinds" of respondents. That is a very interesting finding in itself
and a closer examination of the responses of the subjects would probably be 
much more interesting than the use of a group mean.

That's why plotting data is always to be encouraged before embarking on
any use of statistical tests.

perry morrison

Newsgroups: sci.psychology
From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Subject: Re: sexaul addiction (Should be Antisocial personality disorder)
Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 06:41:04 GMT

>It sounds like he is a classic Antisocial Personality Disorder 
>individual (formerly called sociopath).  About 1-2% of
>US males meet diagnostic criteria for this "disorder".
>I think your term addiction is inappropriate in this case,
>and the behavior is more easy to understand when viewed
>as a symptom of general antisocial behavior.  These individuals
>are extremely well known for their manipulative lying, cheating,
>and stealing, and they generally have very shallow feelings
>(i.e., egocentrism and cold, calculating emotion).  Such
>individuals often feel remorse only because they get caught
>(i.e., they don't feel guilt about the behavior, it's just
>that getting caught inconveniences them or creates problems).
>Therapy is usually not successful because these people
>really believe that there is nothing wrong with them.
>There are females with Antisocial personality disorder, but
>they tend to be more rare.

Are they also known by the term "politician"?

//Jyrki
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
From: tedwards@wam.umd.edu (technopagan priest)
Subject: Myers-Briggs test
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 07:59:05 GMT

I am looking for a copy of a Myers-Briggs test.  Can someone
email a copy to me, or point me to an ftp site with one?
Or perhaps reccommend a book which has it?

-Thomas

Newsgroups: sci.psychology
From: cmg@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Chris Gersch)
Subject: Anorexia, Bulimia & other eating disorders
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 02:49:23 GMT

I need some really good references on the above topics.
I have seen people post about a PsychLit search. How could I get access
to such a thing?

------
Christian
cmg@mundil.cs.mu.oz.au

Newsgroups: sci.psychology
From: ice@netcom.Netcom.COM (I. Chris English)
Subject: DSM IV (was: How to Cure Readers of alt.sex.bondage)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 07:40:30 GMT
Organization: nope.  Just me.
Followup-To: sci.psychology

In article <1992Aug22.061049.4619@ctr.columbia.edu>
lady@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Lee Lady) writes:

   How nice.  Gays and lesbians need no longer worry about some
   therapist trying to "cure" them by aversion therapy.  People into
   cross-dressing or S&M, on the other hand, have no such reason to
   feel safe.  (The handbook for clinical psychology, DSM-III(R),
   states that fantasies about SM are okay, but any actual involvement
   in SM is a psychological disorder.  I guess that readers of
   alt.sex.bondage could provide a livelihood for many therapists for
   quite some time.)

   (God knows what DSM-IV will say, since it's two years overdue now,
   while the clinical psychology community argues about what's
   politically correct so they can pretend that many parts of the
   Diagnostic & Statistical Manual are more than just a collection of
   cultural norms for our society.)

I've heard of at least one group of people working to change this.
Does anyone know who they are or how support can be, um, applied?

Chris English. - what, me crazy? Ahahaa ha ha ha ha ha ha.  HA!

ice@netcom.com
555 Bryant #289, Palo Alto, CA 94301
Anonymously via wi.5275@wizvax.methuen.ma.us
From: pesc@bspesc.atr.bso.nl (Peter J. Schenkels)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: NLP 
Distribution: world
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 23:43:21 GMT
Organization: BSO/AT Rotterdam


In article <1992Aug27.124258.40868@urz.unibas.ch> 
spissinger@urz.unibas.ch writes:

  > Hi,
  > 
  > I read some books about NLP and was really fascinated by the elegance and
  > effectiveness of the method. But when I tried some of the techniques myself it
  > didn't work.
  > 
  Can you elaborate on that? What specific technique did you try 
  and what caused it to fail?
  What NLP techniques do you regard as usefull to yourself and
  other non-psychologists (me)? 

  Personally, I find that after reading a book on NLP myself, the idea
  of influencing people's inner thoughts and feelings by (re)producing
  the right "input signals" sounds simple, but could be effective when
  used in appropriate situations. Pavlov's dog is a clear example. 
  
  The concept of 'congruent actions' looks more usefull to me, since it
  doesn't assume the mechanical way of handling "input signals" in such
  detail.

  Nevertheless, I sometimes wonder if the whole NLP thing isn't just
  a misconception based on an invalid reversion of cause and effect. 
  What about someone who says: "Yesterday, after I saved my neighbour
  from his house on fire, I had a good feeling. Why not today set the
  other neighbour's house on fire and have it back."

  Does anyone recognize this?

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From: NOJCC@CUNYVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: APA membership list
Date: 3 Sep 92 22:11:09 GMT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

Is the APA membership list publicly available?  And where?

How can I find a background bio of a member?
From: Ed.Evans@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Nlp
Date: 29 Aug 92 13:29:06 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Aug 21 1992

PJS>  "Yesterday, after I saved my neighbour
PJS>  from his house on fire, I had a good feeling. Why not today set the
PJS>  other neighbour's house on fire and have it back."

PJS>  Does anyone recognize this?

I believe I recognize it, and I think it's a matter of going a step
back.  The negative impulse associated with setting a fire would seem to
outweigh any positive emotional experience received from the salvation
work.  Just a hunch, nothing from knowing.
___
 X SLMR 2.0 #1708 X No Freedom without Wilderness!

--- Maximus 2.00
From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Re: Polyamory (was Re: Adults, Children and sex) (LONG)
Date: 31 Aug 92 15:43:44 GMT
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.

Incest is taboo in many cultures, and there are good biological
reasons for it, whether or not those reasons somehow led to the
taboos.

-- 
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geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  it is shameful to surrender it too soon." 
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Newsgroups: sci.psychology
From: CT.MMJ@forsythe.stanford.edu (Michelle Jahanpour)
Subject: Psychoanalytic Therapy
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:28:23 GMT

Can anyone tell me if psychoanalytic therapy is practised much
anymore?  If so, what kinds of clients would most benefit from it.
Also, I'm fuzzy on the definition of psychoanlytic therapy--a good
description would be very helpful.  Thanks.
From: spissinger@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: NLP
Date: 27 Aug 92 12:42:58 MET
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland

Hi,

I read some books about NLP and was really fascinated by the elegance and
effectiveness of the method. But when I tried some of the techniques myself it
didn't work.

What's the problem?
Does it only work when Bandler does it?
How do psychologists look at NLP?
What are the latest developments?

Thomas
From: Margo Garcia <margog@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: re: sexaul addiction
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:06:48 GMT

According to some posters, my recent message needs clarification.  Perhaps I
should qualify this by saying this is the first time I've come across someone
with this addiction and that perhaps his behaviour cannot be universally
applied.  In this case, the person to whom I refer has admitted to having the
"gift" of manipulation, which he uses frequently.  He admits as well, that he
in so out of control that when normal meetings, personal ads, pick ups, and
the seduction of girls/women that are subordiante to him (in the work
environment) don't produce the results he wants, he frequents prostitutes. 
He has readily admitted that the women he picks are much younger than him and
are superficially attractive.  He readily admits, and I'm quoting here, that
all he cares about is "what's between their legs".  He readily admits that
he seeks out his victims.  He readily admits that he objectifies, dehumanizes
women.  He readily admits that he feels remorse when he's found out, but it's
not enough for him to stop.  He readily admits that he has cheated "too many
times to count" when he was married and is still cheating on his live-in (who
he says he doesn't love, but stays with her because of their sexual
intensity, and despite the fact both of them have multiple partners, and have
had so since the beginning of their "relationship"... this live-in is one of
the subordinates  .. a student of his).  He readily admits that when he sets
his sights on a victim, he starts manufacturing his "story (to cover his
tracks)", all the while telling the woman what he knows will reel them in. 
He readily admits that while he can't control this behaviour, he consciously
sets out to manipulate and deceive, for his sexual gratification, but more 
importantly, to feed his addiction to control and manipulation.

People sometimes find themselves in situations of deception and infidelity,
due to a lack of judgemnt, or what ever.  But in this case, we are talking
about a man who pathalogically seeks out multiple & concurrent partners through 
deception, manipulation, control.  We are talking about a man who lives not
to have sex, but lives to control through sexuality.  I think we're talking
about a man who is misoynisitic and is full of self-hate, who can only feel
good when he knows he's been successful at victimizing.

For the record, if his narration can be trusted, I am a aberration of his
proclivities as I am older than him and that I would not be considered the
runway model type, which he says is what his victims always are.  he prefers
very, very young women. And too, I am not a subordiante of his. 

I hope this clarifies some of the questions.
Newsgroups: sci.psychology,misc.education,sci.edu
From: schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius)
Subject: INTERESTING STORY
Organization: University of Central Florida
Distribution: sci
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:59:32 GMT

Here is an interesting story of something that
happened to me not long ago.  I do have some
questions about it, pertaining to how it applies
to psychology and education.

I workout after work at our company's exercise
facility with the guy that I carpool with, Mark.
This particular day Mark finished up a little
before I did, so when I came into the locker room,
I found him at his locker twiddling with his lock.
For some reason, he was unable to remember his 
locker combination even though he had opened his
lock just an hour before to put it on the locker.
When I finished my shower and got dressed, he was
_still_ at it.  We were starting to get worried
because his car keys were in there and he was my
ride home.  He was obviously having some sort of
mental block or something.

At this point I remembered something I read in
a book many many moons ago.  I thought up three
or four simple questions to ask him, and told
him to answer each one as quickly as possible.
"What is your wife's name?"  "What kind of car
do you drive?"  "What color is it?"  He answered
each question quickly.  then I sprung "What is
your locker combination?" on him.  Promptly, he
said, "You know, I think it's..." and proceeded
to walk directly to his locker and open it!
Believe me, I was as surprised as he was.  We
laughed for about ten minutes after that. [The
book where I learned about this trick is -- don't
laugh -- "The Dead Zone" by Steven King.  In it,
the protagonist, a teacher, uses it to "trick"
a student with a learning ability into remembering
something about what he just read.  I remember
thinking it was B.S. at the time.]

My question is, is anything like this still
being studied?  I have friends who tend to "freeze
up" during tests, even though they know the material.
Is this what is happening to them?  Is there any
way to do this trick on yourself when you are
having trouble remembering something? Any other 
comments, opinions?  

mark schnitzius
schnitzi@eola.cs.ucf.edu
university of central florida
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
From: Margo Garcia <margog@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: re: sexual addiction
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 11:48:41 GMT

Over the last few days, I have received many responses to my original post. 
The consensus is that my thought process is too sweeping.  Too, it was asked
that I give behavioural particulars of this first, and hopefully last,
incident.  I will not give particulars of his behaviour here.  However, I
will say that he not only confesses that he's sexual addicted with
anti-social behaviour (this is where my correlation comes in:  that *HIS*
dysfunction is akin to rape .. from the antisocial, and not necessarily the
addcition), but he has been diagnosed as such by professionals in the field. 
And unfortunately, his behaviour bares this out ... only he's so good at
manipulation, and guiltless and convincing lying (his "gifts" as he calls
them), that it takes a little bit of time to synthesize and put two and two
together. And I will also say, that while he doesn't search out his targets,
once a target has been made know to him by his own sexual impulses, he does
cognitively devise the means by which to satisfy these impulses... through
deception and aggressive control.  In my mind, the sexual addiction kicks in
when his sexual impulses do; the anti-social kicks in when he seeks to control
through deceit, manipulation, lying, etc .. all of which he's very good at it 
(and I'm no Pollyana .. I usually can spot things pretty quickly . . he's 
 just very good at what he does). 

Again, this is my first experience with this exact personality
type.  And again, I retract my sweeping genralizations:  it was a knee-jerk
reaction to shock and the resulting, but temporary, inability to fully digest 
what had occurred.