HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: atterlep@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Montgomery J. Moose)
Subject: Science/Engineering Dichotomy
Organization: National Association for the Disorganized
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:49:38 GMT

  As a student planning on becoming a clinician, I have been disturbed by the
dichotomy between the academic and practical aspects of psychology.  
  I have met a number of clinicians, and all of them have found that scientific
studies are not extremely useful when used alone in therapy.  Good therapists 
have to learn techniques that are very subjective and qualitative--empathy, 
listening, and intuition.  These techniques are not merely ignored but actively
suppressed in many schools, who are concentrating on the objective, scientific
aspects of psychology.
  An example:  a friend of mine went to Wayne State University in Detroit, a 
fairly large graduate school, for a psychology M.A.  She never graduated 
because she was essentially unable to relate the psychological research she was
expected to learn and do to helping others.  In fact, the psychologists there
never addressed the idea of psychology as a helping profession, instead looking
at it as a branch of scientific research.  My friend, who did not want to do
scientific research, was eventually told to leave because she "would never be a
psychologist."
  She then went to the Center for Humanistic Studies, a qualitatively oriented 
school, got her MA in a year, and is now the supervising psychologist at a 
substance-abuse center.  Though she is an excellent therapist, she is not a
scientist.  In this sense, her director was right--she will never be what he
considers to be a psychologist.
  However, his definition is incomplete.  Academic psychology has failed to 
address the issues of helping and effective therapy in its programs.
Psychology schools are geared toward producing good scientists, and not good
therapists.  This dichotomy creates schools that actually reduce the
effectiveness (as therapists) of their students.  (I'll post evidence of that
in the near future.)  Schools are not teaching what they claim to, and this
needs to be addressed.
  Psychology schools need to learn to teach what they claim to be teaching--
therapy.  As the situation stands, they are doing more harm than good and 
simply not acting as effective educators.

Alan Terlep				        "Please don't shoot us--
Oakland University, Rochester, MI	         we're trying to help."
atterlep@vela.acs.oakland.edu		     --Real public service announcement
Rushing in where angels fear to tread.		    for the Serbian Red Cross
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
From: kehoe@netcom.com (Thomas David Kehoe)
Subject: Personal Construct Theory
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 92 06:05:04 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

Can someone answer some questions about Personal Construct
Theory, the branch of psychology developed by George Kelly?
Right now I'm looking for software.  Dr. Adams-Webber is
sending me Omnigrid for free (and said I could send to anyone
else who wanted it, as he's not on the Internet).  I'm
called Dr. Robert Neimeyer a couple times about getting
Auto-Rep, but haven't gotten through to him.

I'd like software that will do summary statistics of reptests,
have a list of the 1000 or so most common personal constructs,
and have these constructs groups into categories.  Of course
I'd like to know which summary statistics and categories are
respected, etc.

I'd also like to know if any has compared the personal
constructs of married spouses.  The only such study I've
seen was Neimeyer's, in which he found that couples
with similar levels of cognitive complexity had scored
higher on a test of marital satisfaction.

I'm interested in Steve Duck's research, which found that
shared interests and hobbies, shared values (e.g. religion),
and personality inventories were worthless in predicting
long-term interpersonal attraction.  He found that personal
constructs were the only psychological evaluation capable
of predicting friendship.  This implies that a lot of what
matchmakers, personal ads, etc., do is worthless.
-- 
"Why my thoughts are my own, when they are in, but when they are out
they are another's." - Susannah Martin, hanged for witchcraft, 1692.
Thomas David Kehoe          kehoe@netcom.com         (408) 354-5926
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Subject: Re: NLP  (WAS Re: Xanax
Keywords: NLP  NeuroLinguistic Programming
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 02:51:30 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.003648.19808@news.Hawaii.Edu> lady@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Lee Lady) writes:
>Second of all, you're never going to get anywhere in this newsgroup by
>insisting that it's up to skeptics to provide proof that your claims
>are wrong.  You're making the claims (which I agree with, in this case) --
>it's up to you to supply the evidence.

Correct.

>Furthermore, the game is
>stacked against you in that any evidence you can reasonably come up
>with will be attacked as being inadequate and in fact worthless.

Translation: they won't take my word for it when I them them that
it's really, really true.

Lee, you have NEVER EVER, not even once, provided any evidence for
anything you have claimed here, so quitchur bellyaching about how it's
being immediately dismissed.  God, that is feeble.  When you're treated
with respect and asked to provide information you start whining.  It's
nauseating.  How this is supposed to increase mainstream respect for
NLP or any other therapy is beyond me.

I'd be happy to see some articles in referreed journals of psychiatry
or psychology regarding these extraordinary claims.  That's all anyone
can ask.  Now put up or shut up.


-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
From: jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle)
Newsgroups: sci.engr
Subject: Re: Journal of misinformation
Date: 16 Sep 92 01:53:01 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <burkley.716596794@nosc.mil> burkley@nosc.mil (Joe Burkley) writes:
>I have heard of publication called the Journal of Misinformation or 
>something of that nature.  It is a parody of scientific journals, filled
>with articles on subjects like artificial stupidity (as opposed to
>artificial intelligence), etc.  Does anyone know if it still exists,
>and a contact for getting a subscription?   Thanx.
>
>				-Joe Burkley
>				burkley@opus.nosc.mil

I believe that you may be looking for _The Journal of Irreproducible
Results_.  If not, then look into it too (assuming it still exists,
I heard about it a while back).

Jess Holle
Newsgroups: sci.engr
From: jrv@siemens.com. (Jim Vallino)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
Subject: Re: EMG & MUSIC
Date: 10 Sep 92 22:15:06 GMT
Reply-To: jrv@siemens.siemens.com
Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.

A company in California sells a device called the BioMuse.  It was initially
developed for playing "body music".  It comes complete with a MIDI connection.
Since then the technology has been adapted for eye tracker and used by several
folks in diagnositc and rehabilitative settings.  The information for the
company is:

	BioControl Systems, Inc.
	430 Cowper Street
	Palo Alto, CA 94301


--
Jim Vallino
jrv@siemens.siemens.com            Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.
princeton!siemens!jrv              755 College Road East
(609) 734-3331                     Princeton, NJ 08540
From: shihtsun@ecn.purdue.edu (Shih-tsun Alex Chou)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
Subject: Medicine Dictionary
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:30:37 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

I'm looking for a relatively cheap medicine dictionary (for academic
use). Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. Please reply via e-mail.


Alex Chou
grad student
EE, Purdue Univ.
Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
From: kid@shannon (Kid Mun Yap)
Subject: NMRI machine picture
Summary:  NMRI picture
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 04:37:14 GMT

Does anyone happen to have a picture of a NMRI machine in any format (e.g.
GIF, JPEG etc etc...). You wouldn't believe this but NMR images are all
over the place but images of the machine which produces these images seem
rare.

If you happen to have one of these, I would much appreciate it if you could
email me. BTW, I need this for a presentation on 17 Sept.

Thanks

Kid Mun
Email:	kid@shannon.eng.monash.edu.au
     or	eln404l@fawlty1.eng.monash.edu.au
     or	kmy@guppy.mel.dit.csiro.au
Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
From: ksh@mayo.edu (Kerrie Holton, Medical Sciences, Summer Student)
Subject: Re: Physics ,Electronics & Medicine
Reply-To: ksh@mayo.edu
Organization: Mayo Foundation
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 15:35:08 GMT

In article 29416@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU, davidjh@ecr.mu.oz.au (David_James_Earl HILDRETH) writes:

I am an Electrical Engineering student studying at the University of Melbourne.

Recently I have become very interested in the development of electronically
controlled artificial limbs that take in signals by readings of voltage
fluctuations in the remaining muscle (the voltage fluctuations being
induced normally from the motor system).  After some prepatory research
I have found that a (German??) company named Ottobok (unsure of spelling)
is manufacturing these devices.  

My questions are:
    *   What form would the signals be in and do they differ greatly from
        person to person?

	*   Is it plausible to consider reading the signals directly from the 
		nerve endings?  And would these differ from person to person?

    *   As the development of these arms has only reached the stage where
		opposing muscles may be used (and therefore lack of precision), is
		there a means that, say, individual finger control may be obtained.


If anyone could please supply me with any information regarding these questions
and any other useful info I would be most grateful.

Also places to look for further data would be helpful (other companies??, 
papers, journals, etc. )



    THINK OF IT AS EVOLUTION IN ACTION !   |  davidjh@munagin.ee.mu.oz.au
										   |  davidjh@mundil.cs.mu.oz.au 
Y'know if people weren't here it'd be easy |  davidjh@home.beaumaris.peace 




Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
From: rn11195@sage (Robert Nehls)
Subject: Re: Medicine Dictionary
Organization: Medtronic, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:43:40 GMT

shihtsun@ecn.purdue.edu (Shih-tsun Alex Chou) writes:
: I'm looking for a relatively cheap medicine dictionary (for academic
: use). Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. Please reply via e-mail.
: 
: 
: Alex Chou
: grad student
: EE, Purdue Univ.

--

Alex,
I'm a EE and am working for a medical company.  I'm currently using
DORLAND's Pocket Medical Dictionary.  Its written in a relatively
straightforward fashion and so far I haven'y ran across a term that wasn't
in the dictionary.  Its especially nice due to its small size.  As for the
cost I'm not sure, but it is a softcover and they give out quite a few of
them so I doubt that its very expensive.  Its published by W.B SAUNDERS
COMPANY and is currently in its 24th edition.  Good Luck.

Bob Nehls                             Sr. Design Engineer
rn11195@sage.medtronic.com            (612)574-8559

Working Towards Full Life...
Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
From: gjermund.hartviksen@tf.tele.no (Gjermund Hartviksen)
Subject: First International Conference on Medical Aspects of Telemedicine
Organization: Norwegian Telecom Research 
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 11:03:02 GMT


       FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEDICAL ASPECTS OF             
                           TELEMEDICINE
                          
                         Tromsoe, Norway

                          May 20-24,1993

OUTLINE
The first international  conference on telemedicine will be held in Tromsoe.
Since 1989, the University Hospital in Tromsoe and the Norwegian Telecom 
Research have cooperated on the development of telemedicine systems.

The organisers would like to bring together doctors and other medical staff 
in order to exchange knowledge and experience of the use of telemedicine 
systems in diagnostics, the treatment of patients and advice to medical staff 
within the different medical disciplines.

It is also their hope that this conference will lead to the establishment of 
international fora to promote the medical possibilities which derive from 
developments in the field of telemedicine.

The professional program will include the following topics: Tele-radiology, 
-endoscopy, -pathology, -psychiatry, -primary care, -education, -dermatology, 
-cardiology, -pediatry, and -intensive care.

The conference will include lectures, demonstrations, plenary debates and 
tutorials. Emphasis will be made on encouraging good contacts between 
participants at the conference.

DEADLINES
November 1, 1992 - Mailing of a preliminary programme with more detailed information on the professional and social programme, travel arrangements, accomodation and registration.

January 15, 1993 - Final date for registration of participants and submission of papers.

March 1, 1993 - Notification of acceptance of papers.

May 20, 1993 - Opening of the conference

CONTACT
Telemed 93
Regionsykehuset i Tromsoe
P.O.Box 1
N-9038 Tromsoe
Norway
Telefax: +47-83-26042
From: yprakash@mayo.edu (Y. S. Prakash)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
Subject: Re: Physics ,Electronics & Medicine
Date: 15 Sep 92 17:17:55 GMT
Reply-To: yprakash@mayo.edu
Organization: Mayo Clinic/Foundation Rochester MN Campus

There is a considerable amount of work done on control of limb prosthesis using EMG amplitude
and rate by Dr. Dudley Childress of Northwestern Univ. IL.  Further, there is work on Neural
control of prosthesis from Case Western Reserve Univ. (J. Thomas Mortimer).  I am unable to
recall the names of other researchers in the field.

Hope that helped.


---
__________________________________________________

Y.S. Prakash                   1149 First St. SW, Apt. #2
4-176 Anesthesia Research      Rochester, MN 55902 
Mayo Clinic		       
200 First St. SW               (507)280-8199
Rochester, MN 55905

(507)255-7329/7560


Julius Caesar (after conquering Britain):  Veni Vidi Vici
	      (after tranferring to MN):  I came, I thawed, I transferred

_________________________________________________
From: taob@generic.uucp (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
Subject: BME programs in Canada
Keywords: university, college, bme, graduate, program
Date: 8 Sep 92 04:05:31 GMT
Organization: Terra*Net Public Access Unix BBS.  (416) 731-{3468,9867}, 237-0308


    I am currently working towards my B.Sc. in Biology (with an emphasis
placed on genetics and molecular biology) at the University of Toronto.
Does anyone have information on graduate and postgrad BME programs at
Canadian universities?  I'm entering my third year this month and I'd
like to see what's available down the road.  Muchly appreciated.

-- 
Brian T. Tao    =*8-) | ::::::::> tcomtaob@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca <::::::::
Dept. of Exobiology   | :::::> generic!terranet!taob@zoo.toronto.edu <:::::
University of Toronto | "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
From: musth@lure.latrobe.edu.au
Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
Subject: EMG & MUSIC
Date: 7 Sep 92 05:41:15 GMT
Organization: VAX Cluster, Computer Centre, La Trobe University


I am a Music Student completing a major project on using EMG to control
electronic music devic If anyone has any information in this area I would be
most grateful to receive it. I am particularly interested in combining acoustic
performance with EMG control, in both solo and group situations, using the EMG
for real-time signal processing as well as driving synthesisers.
		
Xref: sparky sci.engr.chem:467 sci.chem:3426 sci.med:16932 sci.engr.civil:432
From: rigg@osnome.che.wisc.edu (Tim Rigg)
Subject: Re: Who has the best undergraduate program - anyone?
Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chemical Engineering
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:52:18
In-reply-to: duveneck@cs.uwp.edu's message of Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:29:06 GMT

I'd cast my vote for Michigan Technological University.  Tech has a
well respected program that produces BS chemical engineers that know
the fundamental principles and the applications.

Wisconsin-Madison is okay too.

tim
--
    ...  Then they came for me,
	   and by that time there was no one
	     left to speak up for me. (Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945)
From: prob@btmp24.be (Pascal Roobrouck SH53)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.chem
Subject: Sterilize water with Cu ???
Date: 4 Sep 92 04:56:48 GMT
Reply-To: prob@btmp24.be (Pascal Roobrouck SH53)
Organization: Alcatel Bell Telephone, Antwerpen, Belgium



For some years, a sterilization method for water has been used that
works with Copper. A pair of electrodes is placed in a jet of water and
an electrolytic reaction is activated by an external applied current.
Does anyone have more information on this mechanism : Some of my
questions are :

	* What concentration of Cu(OH)2 is needed to sterilize water for
	drinking/swimming purposes ?

	* Is there a risk of CuO being formed, what concentration of CuO
	is harmfull to people ?

I'd really appreciate any help on this topic,
Please take into account that I'm not a chemist but an electronics
engineer! 
(In case you send me an answer that raises more questions than I had
before...)

Thanks in advance !

Pascal Roobrouck
Belgium

prob@sh.alcbel.be
From: duveneck@cs.uwp.edu (Sandy Duveneck)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.chem
Subject: Who has the best undergraduate program - anyone?
Date: 15 Sep 92 21:29:06 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Parkside
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5


-- 
|Sandy Duveneck		Just think, if Edison hadn't invented the light     |
|UW-Parkside		bulb, we'd all be sitting here in the dark working  |
|Kenosha, WI		on our computers.  (Joke page in  magazine.)        |
Newsgroups: sci.engr.chem
From: tjdalton@athena.mit.edu (Transitive NightFall of Diamonds)
Subject: Re: Optical resist processing
Followup-To: sci.engr.chem
Keywords: photoresists; SAMPLE
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:36:59 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.070104.14358@nntp.hut.fi> s32781h@saha.hut.fi (PP Ahonen) writes:
>I am doing a project on optical positive resist processing.
>Among the articles read through I found a general process
>simulator called SAMPLE (Simulation and Modeling of Profiles
>in Lithography and Etching) by University of California at
>Berkeley mentioned. Could someone please tell me more about 
>the program: availability, price, student version availability,
>contacts and also general info as well as opinions are appreciated.
>Thanks very much in advance.

SAMPLE is available from the 
Electronics Research Lab
Dept. of Electrical Eng. & Comp. Sci.
Univ. of California
Berkeley, CA 94720

I have Version 1.6a, Feb. 1985
Puchased in 1989 or so.
I don't remember the cost, but it was reasonable.  I 
seem to recall about $200 or so.  Mainly for the manual and the
diskettes.

SAMPLE is a no-glitz program, no fancy front end.  It may take a bit
of doing to get it to run properly.

	Tim

+============================================================================+
|                              Timothy J. Dalton                             |
+============================================================================+
| Materials Etching Technologies Laboratory                                  |
| Department of Chemical Engineering                        tjdalton@mit.edu | 
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology                                      |
+============================================================================+
From: edwards@ee.fit.edu (John Edwards)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.chem
Subject: Re: Sterilize water with Cu ???
Date: 7 Sep 92 07:08:40 GMT
Organization: Florida Tech, CP/EE Dept.

In <1992Sep4.065648@btmp24.be> prob@btmp24.be (Pascal Roobrouck SH53) writes:
>For some years, a sterilization method for water has been used that
>works with Copper. A pair of electrodes is placed in a jet of water and
>an electrolytic reaction is activated by an external applied current.
>Does anyone have more information on this mechanism 

Are you sure that what you were looking at is not just an ozone
generator?

Those have been used to sterilize water in aquariums for years.  They
would consist of two electrodes and water stream, although I think
the electrode would be out in the air, and not in the water.
Newsgroups: sci.engr.chem
From: chaas@coe.drexel.edu (Chuck Haas)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.chem
Subject: Re: Sterilize water with Cu ???
Date: 7 Sep 92 17:45:16 GMT
Organization: Drexel University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1b2

In article <1992Sep4.065648@btmp24.be> Pascal Roobrouck SH53,
prob@btmp24.be writes:
>For some years, a sterilization method for water has been used that
>works with Copper. A pair of electrodes is placed in a jet of water and
>an electrolytic reaction is activated by an external applied current.
>Does anyone have more information on this mechanism : Some of my
>questions are :
>
>	* What concentration of Cu(OH)2 is needed to sterilize water for
>	drinking/swimming purposes ?
>
>	* Is there a risk of CuO being formed, what concentration of CuO
>	is harmfull to people ?
Newsgroups: sci.engr.chem,sci.chem,sci.med,sci.engr.civil,nm.general
From: lady@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Lee Lady)
Subject: Re: NRDC Criticizes Domenici Plan to Gut Drinking Water Protections
Followup-To: sci.med
Summary: Your figure is quite exaggerated. 
Organization: University of Hawaii (Mathematics Dept)
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 08:36:00 GMT

In article <0nln#7b@lynx.unm.edu> bhjelle@carina.unm.edu () writes:
>severe responses. Personally, I would like to see some of
>this energy directed toward more concrete threats, like that
>of self-poisoning with unnecessary "health" nostrums and
>megadose vitamins. The example of L-tryptophan, the cause
>of EMS in thousands, leaps to mind. 

About 35 people died and 1500 got sick.  (I got this information from
a published interview with Richard Wurtman of MIT.)  Of course the fact
that the numbers were small doesn't mean the incident was
insignificant.  But the fact that you feel the need to exaggerate the
figure as well as your use of unjustified pejorative terms such as
"self-poisoning" is indicative of your inability to discuss this issue
rationally.

We can also note that the people who suffered from poisoning from the
contaminated tryptophan had made a deliberate decision to take a risk,
based on the information available to them.  I don't have an opinion on
this question of supposedly contaminated water, but people don't have
that much choice about what water to drink.  The two issues are
scarcely parallel.

--
It is a poor sort of skepticism which merely delights in challenging
those claims which conflict with one's own belief system.  
                                                          --Bogus quote 
lady@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu         lady@uhunix.bitnet