Archive for the 'Health Dictionary' Category

May 11th 2012

Destructive Myths in Family Therapy: How to Overcome Barriers to Communication by Seeing and Saying — A Humanistic Perspective

Exposes destructive patterns of communication within family cultures and provides strategies for promoting more open dialogue among family members. 

  • Equips family therapists to help clients see the barriers they place in the way of healthy communication, and adopt more constructive alternatives
  • Provides activities designed to spark open dialogue between therapist and clients, strengthening the therapeutic relationship and facilitating family interaction
  • Includes communication strategies for reversing disengagement, defusing power struggles, overcoming sibling rivalry, disentangling marital problems and more
  • Offers a new understanding of family dynamics, an area in which many family therapists want to improve their skills but have struggled to find a text to guide them in doing so

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May 3rd 2012

IBS Causes & the Ways to Get IBS Help

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a well spread disease among Americans. Old, middle aged and even young people are subjected to it. Both men and women may suffer from this disease. Because of irritable bowel syndrome thousands of men are forced to miss their work, loosing their time, or to be less productive than they might be. So this disease is a scourge of American economy and American culture. Still there are certain IBS treatments, which help to forget about this disease.

As experts believe, the buildup of feces in the colon, which leads to bacteria and gas, is considered to be one of the most common IBS causes.

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April 14th 2012

Archaeological Theory Today

Now in a revised and updated second edition, this volume provides an authoritative account of the current status of archaeological theory, as presented by some of its major exponents and innovators over recent decades. It summarizes the latest developments in the field and looks to its future, exploring some of the cutting-edge ideas at the forefront of the discipline.

The volume captures the diversity of contemporary archaeological theory. Some authors argue for an approach close to the natural sciences, others for an engagement with cultural debate about representation of the past. Get more…

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March 26th 2012

New DNA Sensor Driven by Molecular Motors

Researchers from the University of Washington have developed a sensor capable of sequencing a single DNA molecule. The sensor is based around a genetically engineered protein nanopore and has an opening one billionth of a meter wide, just wide enough for a single DNA strand to pass through.

The nanopore is placed in a membrane surrounded by potassium-chloride, and by applying a small voltage across the membrane an ionic current flow is created through the nanopore.

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March 21st 2012

International Relations

International Relations emerged as a distinct academic discipline in the early twentieth century as scholars and practitioners sought to address the causes of war and conditions for peace in a systematic and sustained way. Its philosophic foundations, however, draw on centuries of thinking about human nature, political authority and obligation, justice and injustice, and their implications for relations within and between political communities. Since then, IR has become one of the most important and dynamic fields of academic study in the contemporary period.

In this second edition, Stephanie Lawson retains a broad historical and contextual approach in introducing readers to the central themes and theoretical perspectives while also addressing key concerns in the contemporary period. Get more…

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