David De Angelis
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 The effect of applying an external negative lens produced a net negative change in focal status of the eye. The effect of applying an external positive lens produced a net positive change in focal status of the eye. This is because of the eye's ability to change its length proportional to the applied plus or minus lens, that is, the dynamic and innate emmetropization process. The test demonstrates that the ocular refractive state can be changed suitably by correct application of the correct lens for recovery and prevention. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The EasyGreen Automatic Sprouter functions on an external timing device. It ships with an external clock that you plug into a wall outlet. This timing device provides electricity to the water-misting unit according to a schedule you set. To make the unit more elegant, the timing could have been put into the unit itself, but I don't see any long-term problem with having the unit on the outside of the machine. I did replace the wall-mounted timer with my own high-end greenhouse timer, but only because it allows me to set more precise intervals and misting durations. |
Richard Bartlett
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 Although "seeing is believing" for some of us, results speak for themselves and need no external witness in order to verify them. You do need some way, though, to notice a change that helps you to track the external part of an event, which of course has much greater ramifications at deeper levels than anything you can consciously observe or notice. The Two-Point process allows you to do this. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Sutherland chalked the reaction up to external water pressure, figuring (quite wrongly) that fluid was simply being squeezed out of his patient, and it wasn't until 1909 that researchers connected increased urine flow, or diuresis, to cold exposure.
The leading explanation for cold diuresis—the need to pee when it's cold—is still pressure; but not external pressure, internal pressure. The theory is that as blood pressure climbs in the body's core because of constriction in the extremities, the body signals the kidneys to offload some of the extra fluid. |
Alex Vilenkin
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 The "orthodox" Copenhagen interpretation, which requires an external observer to perform measurements on the system, cannot even be formulated in this case: there are no observers external to the universe. Cosmologists, therefore, tend to favor the many-worlds picture.
Everett and some of his followers insist that parallel worlds are all equally real, while others believe that they are just possible worlds and only one universe is real.* The dispute may be purely semantic: When one says there is another, parallel universe, independent of ours, what exactly does this statement mean? |
Tom Bohager
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 EAR INFECTION
Infection of the middle (the eardrum and surrounding structure) or outer ear (the external part of the ear and the ear canal) can cause pressure to build up in tiny spaces that can place pressure on delicate nerve endings, causing pain. The most common type of ear infection is swimmer's ear {external otitis), usually caused by bacteria in the ear. Water trapped in the ear can make ear infections more likely. Symptoms include discharge from the ear, slight fever, a pain that intensifies when the ear is pulled or touched, and possibly a temporary loss of hearing. |
Ron Garner
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 Religion teaches that what happens in our lives is in the control of a power external to us, that our happiness, success, or circumstances are up to the will of this power—whatever it decides—usually according to our behavior and faith.
Religion, for the most part, sees human beings as separate from God. Spirituality sees human beings as one with God, and understands that everything is connected. Religion focuses on an external power, while spirituality focuses on the power within. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you put this serum on your skin, there's no question about it: These nutrients will be absorbed into the skin and provide external nutritional.
The efficacy of external medicine
Many herbs and medicines throughout the centuries have been used externally. For example, you can chew up comfrey leaves, make a paste, apply that paste to a broken bone, and it will help that bone heal more quickly. Herbs do get absorbed through the skin.
Lots of things get absorbed through the skin. Medically speaking, this is one pathway through which the body can ingest healthy, healing rainforest botanicals. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 In allergies, the immune system reacts to an external substance that would normally be harmless. With autoimmune disorders, the immune system reacts to normal tissue in the body that would normally be seen as harmless. The difference is that in the case of allergies, the trigger is a known, quantifiable external stimulus (peanut butter, eggs, pollen, dust mites, trees, grass, mold), whereas in most cases of autoimmunity (other than celiac disease) the causes can often only be ascertained (or only guessed at) after disease strikes. |
Mark Schapiro
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 I was greeted by Joris Pollet, a genial Belgian who is the company's associate director for corporate external relations in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, and his British colleague in the external-relations department, Lucy Hodgson. They walked me along shaded pathways reminiscent of a community-college campus—past low-slung buildings now filled with scientists, pollsters, and sales representatives, the men and women behind one of the biggest chemical users for consumer products on earth. |
Roberta Bivins
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 But if an external and local remedy like moxabustion could effectively cure so complex a disease, then surgeons—who, after all, specialized in external and local treatments?could rightly claim a commercial and intellectual stake in one of the most important and paradigmatic diseases of their day. Neither group had much success in creating an effective or accepted therapy. However, their attention and efforts may have had an effect on patient attitudes towards the disease and its cure, by rendering more visible the degree of medical uncertainty and debate that surrounded gout. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 The optic nerves relay information about external light levels to the SCN, which in turn sends the light signals to several regions of the brain, including the pea-sized pineal gland. The pineal gland is instrumental in sleep, because it secretes a sleep-inducing hormone, melatonin.
The Role of Melatonin
As discussed above, melatonin has been shown to have numerous health benefits, functioning as an antioxidant, stimulating the immune system, and supporting cardiovascular health. |
| During stage 1, you are easily awakened by external stimuli, at which point you may only remember a few fragments of hypnagogic images and thoughts.
Stage 2: This is the longest sleep phase, marked by a light level of sleep. The brain slows down into theta waves, with intermittent surges of rapid brain waves (spindles) followed by large, slow bursts of delta waves. Breathing, heat rate, metabolic rate, and body temperature continue to decline. You may be awakened easily by sound and movement. |
Devra Davis
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 By 1938, the world's top scientists from Italy, France, Germany, Argentina, America, England, Japan and Russia understood that much cancer came from workplace, nutrition, hormones, sunlight, radiation and other external sources. One is left to wonder if the U.S. National Cancer Institute had begun a program to train doctors to look out for signs of these health risks and to promote their reduction by 1949, why were these efforts stymied? What happened to derail programs to reduce the burden of cancer? |
Michael Pollan
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 As the psychologists have demonstrated, most of us allow external, and mostly visual, cues to determine how much we eat. The larger the portion, the more we eat; the bigger the container, the more we pour; the more conspicuous the vending machine, the more we buy from it; the closer the bowl of M&Ms, the more of them we eat. All of which makes us easy marks for food marketers eager to sell us yet more food.
As in so many areas of modern life, the culture of food has become a culture of the eye. |
Tom Bohager
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| TINNITUS
Tinnitus, or "ringing ears," is a phenomenon of the nervous system connected to the ear, characterized by a perception of a ringing, beating, or roaring sound without an external source. The sound may be a quiet background noise or loud enough to drown out all other sounds. Common causes of tinnitus include presbycusis, prolonged exposure to loud environmental noise, and such pathological conditions as inflammation and infection of the ear, otosclerosis, Meniere's Syndrome, and labyrinthitis. |
| STRESS
Stress is a medical term for an imbalance in the body's systems caused by a wide range of external stimuli, both physiological and psychological. The body's physiological response to stress is sometimes called the general adaptation syndrome, which describes three stages of response: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.
Stress creates an alarm in the body, and the system must retaliate by releasing certain hormones, such as Cortisol, into the system to control the effects of the stress on the body. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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| Stage 5: This is REM sleep, the dreaming phase, marked by small, rapid alpha waves that resemble those indicating wakefulness and sensory awareness of external stimuli. However, in this stage the brain is reacting to internally generated stimuli from dreams. Most muscles seize up to prevent the person from reacting to the action in the dreams, but the sleeper may experience some slight twitching in the face, fingers, and toes. Men experience penile erections. Breathing and heart rate speed up and slow down in reaction to dream content. |
Tom Bohager
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| They line the various body cavities, internal organs (such as the respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract, and genitals), and areas of the body that are exposed to the external environment (such as the nostrils, eyes, lips, ears, and anus). They secrete mucus to maintain moisture and lubrication. Occasionally, certain inflammatory substances can irritate these membranes and cause them to produce excess mucus, which leads to congestion. |
Michael Pollan
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| Brian Wansink, a Cornell professor of marketing and nutritional science who has done several ingenious studies on portion size and appetite, concludes that Americans pay much more attention to external than to internal cues about satiety* By comparison the French, who seem to attend more closely to all the sensual dimensions of eating, also pay more attention to the internal cues telling us we feel full.
So how might paying more for food help us eat less of it? In two ways. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 Tiny electrical currents are even present in the human body due to the chemical reactions that occur as part of normal bodily functions, even in the absence of external electric fields. For example, nerves relay signals by transmitting electrical impulses. Most biochemical reactions, from digestion to brain activity, are associated with the rearrangement of charged (electric) particles. Even the heart is electrically active—an activity a doctor can trace with the help of an electrocardiogram. You have to wonder what would happen if Expertise 3P could protect us from all that! |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 In the NES model, the external aura can be thought of as a sort of corona of the dynamic body-field, but not as an integral part of its information network.
The aura is largely electromagnetic in nature but composed of visible light (it can be seen by the human eye or detected through certain photographic methods, such as kirlian photography; its visibility also is why it is often referred to as the "light body" in metaphysical parlance). |
Roberta Bivins
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| And mesmerism, or animal magnetism, occupied a fascinating middle ground between exclusive reliance on 'objective' and external readings of the body, and 'subjective' and internal ones (see Chapters 2 and 4). In mesmerism, the hypnotized patients themselves became the experimental instruments. Their self-reports while under the mesmeric influence were taken by the therapy's medical and lay supporters as 'objective' data not merely about the hypnotic state but about the conditions for which they were being treated. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Internal illnesses are believed to stem from too much yin, whereas problems caused by external agents such as climate, infection and allergy are the effect of excess yang. Rather than focusing on symptoms, Chinese medicine uses acupressure, acupuncture, moxibustion, shiatsu, reflexology and t'ai-chi to stimulate the chi energy flow and build up whichever of the two forces is deficient.
According to this philosophy, whether we are resting or on the move, asleep or awake, hot or cold, the body is constantly in the process of energy balancing. |
| Other symptoms include reactions to the weather and external conditions, the effects of heat and cold, lifestyle and work-related pressures, and so on.
Thus for asthma three patients who complain respectively of asthma with nausea and vomiting, asthma with muscle spasm, or asthma that is worst on waking, will be given three different remedies. Remedies most often used for asthma and acute congestion are aconite, arsenicum, sambucus, blatta, cuprum met, bryonia, belladonna, drosera, ignatia, Pulsatilla, tuberculinum, ipecac and sulphur. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 BEYOND DEPRESSION
Another devastating side effect was also discovered after the drug reached the market: Taken during pregnancy, Accutane causes disfiguring birth defects, including thymus gland abnormalities, parathyroid hormone deficiency, cerebral abnormalities, hydrocephalus, cranial nerve defects, cardiovascular abnormalities, ear defects, absent external auditory canals, eye abnormalities, facial dysmorphia, cleft palate, and skull abnormalities. Birth defects come with a single dose and affect a quarter of babies. Half of all "Accutane babies" have a reduction in IQ. |
Erich Grotewold
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 However, in some cases, flavonoid conjugates can be enzymatically hydrolyzed with external glucuronidases and sulfatases prior to the isolation and analysis of products.
3. STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION AND/OR IDENTIFICATION OF FLAVONOID AND THEIR CONJUGATES
All physicochemical methods applied in the field of organic chemistry are useful for structural characterization or identification of individual flavonoids and their conjugates. The separation approaches mentioned above may be considered in different ways. |
Ron Garner
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| Religion focuses on an external power, while spirituality focuses on the power within. Spirituality invites us to understand our thoughts and feelings as reflections of the source of creation in our lives.
Oddly enough, the great teachers of the religions have taught that: "the kingdom of God is within you."7 They have tried to show the way. But, religious groups have missed the point. Followers of all major religions end up worshiping the messenger instead of embracing the message and transforming themselves. Over the centuries, why have we listened and not understood? |
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