Dawson Church
See book keywords and concepts |  The subjects of the study had all been clinically diagnosed as having a phobia to small animals such as spiders, snakes, bats, and mice.
The study used several different measures of the strength of the participants' phobia before and after the study They measured their pulses, to see the extent by which they rose when contemplating the object of their fear. They measured the number of steps toward the feared animal a participant could take. |
John J. Ratey, MD
See book keywords and concepts |  Each year at the beginning of the conference, he would push a towel cart through the aisles, collecting bats and balls and other sporting goods. Cast in among the bounty one year was a newfangled heart rate monitor, which at the time was worth hundreds of dollars. He couldn't help himself; he stole it for the revolution. "I saw that son of a buck," he freely admits, "and I said, That's a door prize for Madison Junior High!"
During the weekly mile, he tested the device on a sixth-grade girl who was thin but not the least bit athletic. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts |  Ebola virus outbreaks are linked to mining development in previously untouched areas as well as hunters looking for exotic bush meat; the AIDS pandemic is believed to have originated from human encroachment into African forests where wild chimpanzees were a reservoir for the virus; and fruit bats in remote areas are thought to be the original source of several high profile zoonotic pathogens which have spread to humans, the most recent of which is SARS.
Similarly, H5N1 virus, or avian flu, is often the result of farmers and infected fowl crowding together in prime living space. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  That's a weird feature we share with other higher primates (monkeys and apes), guinea pigs, the red-vented bulbul, and fruit-eating bats. Every other species in the world makes its own vitamin C. One theory is that since vitamin C is found in fruits and vegetables, and since fruits that are safe to eat are often sweet, nature in her wisdom gave us a sweet tooth so we would seek out the very foods without which we would die.
And make no mistake—without vitamin C we'd all be dead as doorknobs. Without vitamin C you can't form new collagen, the main protein in connective tissue. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
See book keywords and concepts |  A fly simultaneously sees dozens of pictutes of its immediate environment. bats navigate using radar, an entirely different system from ours. A dog doesn't see color but can smell, hear, and feel things that human beings do not. As part of its own survival strategy, each species constructs its own world of sensory impressions out of the energies around it. Whose world-view is more accurate? During the Asian tsunami crisis in December 2004, news agencies reported a compelling phenomenon: the wild and domestic animals in Sumatra fled to the mountains in the hours before the tsunami struck. |
Bill Sardi
See book keywords and concepts |  Among these non-vitamin C producing animals are fruit bats, primates and guinea pigs. For example, long-term dietary deficiencies of vitamin C in guinea pigs result in esophageal and gastric cancer. [IARC Science Publication 41: 665-77, 1982]
Americans produce no vitamin C internally, and obtain all their vitamin C from their diet, about 110 milligrams per day. Hunter gatherers long ago consumed as much as 600-700 milligrams of vitamin C daily, so the sparse amount consumed in modern times appears historically low. |
David R. Montgomery
See book keywords and concepts |  Between ad iooo and 1650 guano-producing fruit bats vanished as the islandets killed off more than half the native bind species. Historical accounts and changes in the abundance and variety of bones in prehistoric deposits indicate that by the time of Cook's visit Mangaians had eaten all theit pigs and dogs, and probably all their chickens too. The Mangaian diet began to change radically—and not for the better.
After most protein sources were gone, charred rat bones became prevalent in deposits excavated from prehistoric rock shelters. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Finally, a scientist from the Institute for Ethnobotany at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawaii, who is an expert on bats, came to a startling insight. Although the BMAA levels in cycad flour are indeed low, this flour was not the only dietary exposure to cycad on Guam. It turned out that the meat of the flying fox bat was a prized Chamorro delicacy, so much so that the local animal population was hunted to the point of extinction in the years preceding the decline in the Parkinsonism epidemic. |
David Wolfe
See book keywords and concepts |  Darwinists assume that the relationship between, say, bats and whales is similar to that between siblings and cousins in human families. Possibly it is, the proposition is not self-evident...we observe directly that apples fall when dropped, but we do not observe a common ancestor for modern apes and humans. What we do observe is that apes and humans are physically and biochemically more like each other than they are like rabbits, snakes or trees. the ape-like common ancestor is a hypothesis in a theory, which purports to explain how these greater and lesser similarities came about. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
See book keywords and concepts |  They are self-sterile and have to be cross-pollinated (by bats and moths). The attractive fruits are pink or red, thornless on the surface and weigh up to 600 g each. Inside they are white to dark red, with numerous small black seeds embedded in the pulp. The red pitaya (H. undatus) has become well known, but several species of Hylocereus and Selenicereus produce edible fruits. The yellow pitaya (5. megalanthus), for example, is similar but the yellow fruit bear spines that fall off when the fruit ripens. Origin & history Central America (the exact geographical origin is uncertain). | | These are pollinated by bats and develop into large oblong fruits, each containing a large number of seeds surrounded by fruit pulp that turns powdery when it dries out. Origin & history A. digitata occurs only in tropical Africa. There are a further six species in Madagascar and one in Australia. Parts used Fruit pulp, seeds and leaves. Cultivation & harvesting Trees are occasionally cultivated in gardens and parks but so far no commercial cultivation has been attempted. The fruits are wild-harvested in rural areas. |
James Green
See book keywords and concepts |  If you disapprove of bats, consider reconsidering this attitude; unless you fly at night and you are a whole lot smaller than they are, bats won't bother you; and they garble from the garden sky a myriad of flying insects that take great delight in bothering you.)
Arrange aU the above things in your garden near your plants. The birds you attract eat bugs that eat plants, and most important, the songs of birds are the perfect serenade for plants. It has been discovered that no other form of music makes plants happier and more garden-active. bats patrol the garden airways for you at night. |
Jacky Law
See book keywords and concepts |  CGA means argi-nine and GCG means alanine — in bats, in beetles, in beech trees, in bacteria. Until the genetic code was cracked in the 1960s, we did not know what we now know: that all life is one; seaweed is your distant cousin and anthrax one of your advanced relatives. The unity of life is an empirical fact.'14
The processes by which life comes into being are also largely similar. |
James Green
See book keywords and concepts | | If you disapprove of bats, consider reconsidering this attitude; unless you fly at night and you are a whole lot smaller than they are, bats won't bother you; and they garble from the garden sky a myriad of flying insects that take great delight in bothering you.)
Arrange aU the above things in your garden near your plants. The birds you attract eat bugs that eat plants, and most important, the songs of birds are the perfect serenade for plants. It has been discovered that no other form of music makes plants happier and more garden-active. bats patrol the garden airways for you at night. |
Joseph E. Mario
See book keywords and concepts |  A 70-feet tall tree from which cricket bats are made, having rough bark, and narrow pointed leaves on greyish branches, with yellow male and green female catkins, growing along streams and marshes. | | Synthesizing ability has been lost by 1 % of animals, in monkeys, bats, guinea pigs, and most humans, although a few persons are said to produce some internally. Norm is 1.4-1.5 mg./100 ml. in blood plasma; 5000-6000 mg. in the body, 32 mg. per pound of body weight; since Vitamin C is water-soluble, excess is lost in 3-4 hours. More Vitamin C is needed with more diet Protein. Antitoxin, bio-internal activator, for Enzyme activity, cell synthesis, vital for intracellular fluid nutrient and electron transfer. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
See book keywords and concepts |  It produces bright green leaves in matched pairs, white, fragrant flowers that are pollinated by bats, and an oblong, brown, pod-like fruit with large seeds inside. The fruit is considered edible although hardly tasty; one of its common names, "stinking toe," is used to describe the smell and taste of the fruit! | | Cecropia trees (nearly 100 tropical species in South and Latin America) are propagated by the many small fruit seeds they produce; bats, monkeys, and birds eat the succulent fruit and disperse the seeds in their droppings. Often, dense stands of trees can form that choke the growth of other plants anywhere that the canopy is disturbed.
Indian tribes in the Amazon use embauba for its anti-inflammatory properties—typically for rheumatic, kidney, and lung inflammations. The leaf is made into a tea and used widely for asthma and other upper respiratory complaints, as well as for diabetes. |
Bruce H. Lipton
See book keywords and concepts |  Those wearing the green filters see a threatening dark sky, bats, snakes, a ghost hovering outside a dark, gloomy house and the words "I live in fear." I always get enjoyment out of seeing how the audience responds to the confusion when half yell out "I live in love," and the other half, in equal certainty, yells out "I live in fear" in response to the same image.
Then I ask the audience to change to the opposite colored filters. My point is that you can choose what to see. |
Sandra Steingraber
See book keywords and concepts |  S I X animals
Bathed in a brilliant yellow-green light, they look like bats floating in a perfectly round pond. I have seen many micrographs of cancerous tissue—reproduced neady in atiases of human tumor cell lines or on the shiny pages of medical journals—but never before have I stared at living cancer cells. Alive, they look to me like bats. "Now compare that one to this one."
The first petri dish is removed and replaced by another, and I look again through the microscope. |
Dianne Onstad
See book keywords and concepts |  There were equally disarming action-packed tales about frankincense and cassia featuring flying snakes and belligerent bats. many European languages, the name for cinnamon comes from the Latin canella, which means "small tube or pipe," referring to how thin strips of the inner bark of the cinnamon tree are sun-dried to form tightly curled quills.
General Information
Cinnamon is the dried, strongly aromatic, and sweet-tasting inner bark of a tropical evergreen laurel species native to India and Sri Lanka (Ceylon). |
Patrick Holford
See book keywords and concepts |  The exceptions are guinea pigs, fruit-eating bats, the red-vented bulbul bird, and primates, including humans. Most animals produce the equivalent of 3,000 to 16,000 mg per day—a little different from the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of 60 mg and more consistent with the levels known to boost immunity and minimize the risk of cancer. In fact, vitamin C-producing animals are immune to most cancers and viral diseases.
Linus Pauling postulated that we used to make vitamin C but, through eating a fruit-rich diet, lost the ability because we could get enough from our food. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Neurological Impairment
Results of this study showed betaine to be effective in enhancing the vitamin B-12 nondependent part of methionine synthesis in bats exposed to N20 with impairment of the vitamin B-12-dependent methionine synthase reaction.
—J. van der Westhuyzen & J. Metz, "Betaine Delays the Onset of Neurological Impairment in Nitrous oxide-induced Vitamin B-12 Deficiency in Fruit bats," Journal of Nutrition, 114(6), June 1984, p. 1106-1111. |
the Editors of PREVENTION Magazine Health Books
See book keywords and concepts |  But when the butterflies feel more like swarms of skittering bats, and you feel trapped in a cycle of uneasy fears that just won't let up— your anxiety has become a problem. xhose bats can be turned back into butterflies. There are a variety of therapies, practical approaches and medical treatments to help control anxiety.
Take a motion potion. Ventilate your anxiety by taking it for a walk. A daily exercise program of at least a half-hour will help, says Bernard Vittone, M.D. |
Dianne Onstad
See book keywords and concepts | | They are presently being evaluated for reforestation in the Philippines where other trees have failed to grow and also for wildlife sanctuaries since birds and bats are partial to the ftuits. The fruits are round, with red or sometimes yellow smooth, thin, tendet skins and light brown, soft, juicy pulp.
Culinary Uses
The flesh has a very sweet, musky, somewhat figlike flavor and is filled with exceedingly minute yellowish seeds, too fine to be noticed in eating. Usually eaten out of hand, the fruit is also often cooked into tarts or made into jam. |
Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson
See book keywords and concepts |  Showy corollas generally serve to attract pollinators such as insects, arachnids, bats, birds
Cortex The outer, separable, portion of the stem or fruit
Corymb (adj. corymbose) A raceme of flowers where the pedicels are of different lengths, so that all the flowers are at the same level at the top, the outer flowers opening first
Cotyledons The first leaves of a plant, present in the seed, containing nourishment for the seedling and usually different from subsequent leaves
Crenate Having rounded teeth
Crenulate Diminutive form of crenate
Cruciform Cross-shaped, e.g. |
Sydney Walker III, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Here are some examples of how psychiatrists testifying for defendants have used the flexibility of DSM to the defendants' advantage:
• In 1985, Lisa Grimshaw, her boyfriend, and another man drive to a boat ramp where she dropped the men off—along with two baseball bats. Then Lisa picked up her estranged husband at his workplace and drove him to the boat ramp, proposing a romantic interlude. When he left the car, the two men jumped out from hiding and beat him to death with the bats. |
Tanya Harter Pierce
See book keywords and concepts |  He argued that an example of this folly would be if the federal government had decided to help fund the building and testing of a flying machine back in 1900, and looking around at things that fly (bugs, birds, and bats), it decided that all flying machines should have wings that flap up and down. Enter the Wright Brothers. Their flying machine would have failed all tests because it had stationary wings, rather than the anticipated wings that flapped up and down.3
But Sheridan did not give up. |
Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson
See book keywords and concepts | | The zygomorphic and bisexual flowers are often very large and prominent and are pollinated by large, often nocturnal, insects, birds or bats.
Distribution
The family is distributed throughout the tropics, but many species are native to Asia (Indo-Malayan region).
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Josef A. Brinckmann and Michael P. Lindenmaier
See book keywords and concepts |  Lohse and J.W. bats,
Angew. Chem. 101, 1539-1540 (1989). [4] H.W. Rauwald, R. Maucher and D.D.
Niyonzima, Pharmazie 52, 962-964 (1997). [5] J.A. Hutter et al, J. Nat. Prod. 59, 541-543
(1996).
[6] S. Yongchaiyudha et al, Phytomedicine 3,
241-248 (1996). [7] A. Yagi et al, Planta Med. 63, 18-21
(1997).
[8] G. Speranza et al, J. Nat. Prod. 60, 692-694 (1997).
[9] R. Saleem et al, Planta Med. 67, 757-760 (2001).
Aloe capensis Cape aloes
Ph. Eur., USP
Plant sources: Aloe ferox Miller (Cape aloes) and, according to the USP, hybrids with A. africana Miller and A. spicata L. |
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