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Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work Dr Ron Roberts See book keywords and concepts

Essentially it is a combination of X-ray and computer technology that means a three-dimensional picture can be built up of tissues of the body, particularly soft tissues such as lungs, which do not show up so well on X-rays. þSkin tests can show whether the asthmatic is allergic to any specific substances that may be triggering attacks. Skin prick tests are usually painless. A drop of allergic extract is placed on the skin surface and a prick made at the same spot with a needle.

Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

But it's useful to know that advances in computer technology have brought the cost of the Freeze-Framer down from thousands of dollars to $275 on the Internet—still a lot, but a big improvement. This form of biofeedback may thus be within your reach to try at home, whereas just a few years ago only a handful of specialists could have afforded it. And besides reducing overbreathing and stress, my colleague Dr. Paul Lehrer tells me that use of a method similar to Freeze-Framer was effective in reducing pain and improving function in FM patients.

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele See book keywords and concepts

Once in place, the scope of the basic care package could be expanded as the system realizes savings derived from standardization, more efficient computer technology, and the end of market-based medicine with its required profits, stock options, and generous executive-compensation deals. The health council could save money by creating an enforcement agency that would pay for itself by ferreting out fraud, which may run as high as $200 billion a year. One possibility would be to decriminalize health care fraud and make it a civil offense.

The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

In computer technology, a set of conventions in which instructions for the machine are written. There are many languages that allow humans to communicate with computers; FORTRAN, BASIC, and Pascal are some common ones. radar A method of finding the position and velocity of an object by bouncing a radio wave off it and analyzing the reflected wave. Radar is an acronym for radio detection and ranging. Police use radar techniques to determine the speed of automobiles. radio telescope See telescope.

Infinite Mind: Science of the Human Vibrations of Consciousness Valerie V. Hunt See book keywords and concepts

Furthermore, developments in the field of computer technology have given us a glimpse of the profundity of the human mind. Probably the greatest recent discoveries in biology come from decoding the genetic information system and the genetic engineering it fostered. Discovering neuropeptides, the ultimate biological communication system, has overshadowed the tremendous strides made in the study of neurochemical enzymes. (See Chapter X, Healing: The Miracle of Life).

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

In computer technology, a unit of information made up of bits (often eight bits). The memory capacity of a typical personal computer runs from hundreds of thousands to millions of bytes. calculator An electronic device for performing automatic mathematical computations, usually controlled by a keyboard. Some are actually small computers, with limited memory, that allow the user to use simple programs. capacitor (kuh-pas-i-tuhr) A device used in electrical circuits. The capacitor stores an electrical charge for short periods of time, and then returns it to the circuit.

In computer technology, a set of conventions in which instructions for the machine are written. There are many languages that allow humans to communicate with computers; FORTRAN, BASIC, and Pascal are some common ones. radar A method of finding the position and velocity of an object by bouncing a radio wave off it and analyzing the reflected wave. Radar is an acronym for radio detection and ranging. fa Police use radar techniques to determine the speed of automobiles. radio telescope See telescope.

Vibrational Medicine: The #1 Handbook of Subtle-Energy Therapies Richard Gerber, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Perhaps the most revolutionary development in diagnostic imaging came with the marriage of computer technology to x-ray sources. The CAT Scanner, short for Computerized Axial Tomography, operates by sending a thin beam of x-rays into the subject in question. The beam slowly rotates 360 degrees around the subject and takes a brief "photograph" at every angle. A computer within the scanner mathematically analyzes and sums up the separate "photos," then reconstructs an image which looks like a cross section through the human body.

This new computer technology could be coupled to EMR scanning to generate three-dimensional images of the etheric body, which could be studied as a whole, as well as examined in detail, to observe for disease-related and other changes. The etheric body is a holographic energy template that guides the growth and development of the physical body. Distortions of the healthy pattern of subtle-energy organization in the etheric template may lead to abnormal cellular growth.

EMR SCANNER: A hypothetical etheric body scanner based upon the Kirlian principle of electrographically imaging the Phantom Leaf Effect using energetic resonance, combined with the CT-scanning computer technology. ENDORPHINS: A variety of morphine-like proteins that are found in the brain and nervous system and in the organs of the body. One particular type of endorphin may mediate pain relief in certain settings.

Stopping the Clock: Longevity for the New Millenium Ronald Klatz and Robert Goldman See book keywords and concepts

Leading Causes of Death in the United States • 1896 — influenza, diarrhea, pneumonia • 1996 — heart disease, cancer, stroke • 2046 — suicide, homicide, aerospace accident Just as computer technology is accelerating so that every 18 months power and speed double, making supercomputers compact and affordable enough for every college student to own, so too, biomedical information is doubling approximately every 3.5 years.

Vaccination The Issue of Our Times Peggy O'Mara See book keywords and concepts

Do-It-Yourself Computer Research Due to improvements in computer technology and the large number of people who now use computers on a regular basis, obtaining health information is easier than ever. Anyone with a home computer, a modem, and the right software can directly access a variety of electronic databases and do his or her own search. People who have a continuing interest in healthcare issues may want to learn how to do their own searches.

The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

In computer technology, a unit of information made up of bits (often eight bits). The memory capacity of a typical personal computer runs from hundreds of thousands to millions of bytes. calculator An electronic device for performing automatic mathematical computations, usually controlled by a keyboard. Some are actually small computers, with limited memory, that allow the user to use simple programs. capacitor A device used in electrical circuits. The capacitor stores an electrical charge for short periods of time, and then returns it to the circuit.

Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton See book keywords and concepts

In the 1950s, notes Canadian author Joyce Nelson, business adapted the techniques of military "wargaming," which uses computer technology to run complex simulations of battle, giving numerical weights to factors like population densities, environmental conditions, and weapon deployments to create detailed projections of probable outcomes. Using similar computer models, companies were able to enter their own sets of numbers, representing variables such as demographic factors, economic conditions and polling data to generate marketing scenarios.

101 Things You Don't Know About Science And No One Else Does Either James Trefil See book keywords and concepts

Gordon Moore (who went on to become one of the founders of Intel) noticed that the growth of computer technology had an unusual feature: the memory of computers (the amount of information they can store) was doubling every two years. In the time since then, we have come to realize that almost every index of power in a computer ?the size of circuits, the speed at which processing can be done, and so on ?seems to get twice as good every two years as well. Collectively, these observations are often referred to as Moore's law.

In other words, if computer technology progresses in the future as it has in the past, within the lifetime of many people reading this book, we will be able to produce (at least in principle) an artificial system of the same size (if not the same complexity) as the human brain. What then? Will We Be Computing with Light? are we now reaching some sort of limit in the power of computers? This is such an important issue that I discuss different aspects of it in several other places.

The Search for Other Worlds Fred Alan Wolf See book keywords and concepts

In these computer technology examples, an offer wave is sent to a receiver. The receiver accepts the offer and confirms it by sending back along the same line to the offerer an echo of the offer, indicating to the offerer that the message was received. In the quantum wave-complex-conjugate wave sequence, the exchange is the same, except that the offer and the echo cyclically repeat until the net exchange of energy, and other physical quantities that will manifest, satisfy certain requirements.

However, if computer technology continues to advance as quickly as it has, we will soon be facing computer memory devices that are both macroscopic and quantum mechanical *However, this is my interpretation of their work and not necessarily their view. This is specifically the case in the work of Albert, Aharonov, and D'Amato. at the same time.

Radical Healing: Integrating the World's Great Therapeutic Traditions to Create a New Transformative Medicine Rudolph M. Ballentine, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Now that our experience with computer technology is making this way of working look almost commonsensical, we find that, lo and behold, herbalists and homeopaths may well have been doing just that sort of thing for centuries. From this point of view, each natural remedy is an informational package, and the outer form of a plant provides a rough reflection of the underlying pattern of information that it holds.

The Alternative Medicine Handbook: The Complete Reference Guide to Alternative and Complementary Therapies Barrie R Cassileth, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Ironically, quartz, a common crystal long imbued with imaginary curative powers, is now a source of power in the form of silicon dioxide chips, the energy-transmitting heart of computer technology. The history of electromagnetic therapies parallels the discovery of electricity and its use in modern society. When it was understood that different frequencies operating at varying levels of power produced different effects, opportunists and entrepreneurs in substantial numbers found ways to apply those variations to the "diagnosis" and "treatment" of illness and other problems.

The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications David Deutsch See book keywords and concepts

And it is true that even existing computer technology relies on microscopic quantum-mechanical processes. (Of course all physical processes are quantum-mechanical, but here I mean ones for which classical physics - i.e. non-quantum physics - gives very inaccurate predictions.) If the trend towards ever faster, more compact computer hardware is to continue, the technology must become even more 'quantum-mechanical' in this sense, simply because quantum-mechanical effects are dominant in all sufficiently small systems.

Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton See book keywords and concepts

Its backbone, the internet, began as a military communications system and evolved into an inexpensive, government-subsidized melange of arcane computerese and loosely-organized data on obscure academic topics ranging from bee migration patterns in Brazil to verb valence structures in Old Saxon. As computer technology brings a user-friendlier version of the internet to a wider spectrum of users, it has become an object of intense corporate interest.

The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

In computer technology, the smallest unit of information. A bit of information corresponds to knowing whether a given element in the computer memory is on or off. boom, sonic The sharp, explosive sound generated by an airplane traveling at speeds greater than the speed of sound. The sonic boom follows the aircraft as a wake follows a ship. Braille A system of writing and printing for the blind in which arrangements of raised dots representing letters and numbers can be identified by touch. by being able to store a program and to store and retrieve information in its memory without human help.

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