Research technician position available
jmccarty@hsc.vcu.edu
Tue, 24 Jun 1997 18:04:26 -0600
I am a faculty member at the Medical College
of Vriginia Division of
Hematology/Oncology. I am in search of a
research technician with
molecular biology experience. If you know of
possible candidates, I
would appreciate your posting this notice, and
would like to hear from
potential candidates. My job posting is as
follows:
RESEARCH LABORATORY TECHNICIAN
WANTED
Molecular Hematopoiesis Laboratory at the VA
Medical Center is seeking a
laboratory technician for cutting-edge studies of
the molecular
regulation of blood cell formation with a focus
on megakaryocyte and
platelet production. BA/BS in biology,
Biochemistry or chemistry is
required; advanced degrees desirable.
Experience in molecular biologic
techniques, DNA manipulation, RNA analysis,
tissue culture, and animal
work highly desirable. This position is to begin
July/August 1997.
Salary commeasurate with experience. Full
benefits available, but
flexible according to needs.
Please send a current CV, including the names
of three references to
John M. McCarty, M.D., Section of
Hematology/Oncology, McGuire VAMC
(111K), 1201 Broad Rock Boulevard,
Richmond, VA 23249. Tele: (804)
675-5446, fax: (804) 675-5447, email
jmccarty@GEMS.vcu.edu. The VA is
an equal opportunity employer.
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Re: William Bates's method - do it really improve the eyesight?
h.m.m.dejong@phys.tue.nl (Herman de Jong)
Wed, 25 Jun 1997 13:45:35 GMT
agapow@latcs1.cs.latrobe.edu.au (p-m agapow) wrote:
>Aleksey Zvyagin writes:
>>I have a bad eyesight (nearsight -7.0D ) and i would like to improve my
>>eyesight by some exercise, including the William Bates's method. I had
>>been tried to make him exercises ("palming", "sunning") but my eyesight
>>had not improved. Help! i need statistics (from a life) about this
>>method. Do it really imporve the nearsight? Had anyone improved yourself
>>eyesight by this method?
>There is no foundation whatsoever to Bates' method. It
>has been thoroughly debunked for many years now, although it keeps coming
>back under different names. You can find a good recounting of it's history
>and problems in:
>Martin Gardner: Fads and Fallacies (in the name of science)
>Chapter 19 - "Throw Away Your Glasses!"
>paul-michael agapow (agapow@latcs1.oz.au), LaTrobe Uni
>"There is no adventure, there is no romance, there is just trouble and desire"
I've once heard of the observation that some myopic people are able to
see normally when under hypnosis. This suggests that it is not always
an elongated growth of the eye but also sometimes a muscular tension
of the annular muscles of the eyelenses.
I don't know this for a fact and I wouldn't know where to find the
research on these hypnotic tests, but if it is true then it must also
be possible to develope exercises to correct the condition (if one can
controll it subconciously it can also be corrected).
I just don't know what to think of it but I don't mind wearing
spectacles. They often protect my eyes from dust / particles and even
from drying fast. -7 is a little heavy on the nose though; I only have
about -2. and I already prefere plastic lenses.
a little philosophy for those who care:
Some protheses are more acceptable then others: clothes and shoes are
acceptable to practically everybody and we don't even see them as
prothesises; but in fact they are. From people who have very important
prothesises as leg or stoma we can learn that acceptance is very
important to the success and actively trying to get ridd if some
artificial extension of our limited bodily functions is an indication
(not proof) of disacceptance. We use all kinds of atrificial
extensions of the body: tools, a pen, a car, a rocket, a robot, a
computer, a divingsuit, a parashute and any factory. We don't really
mind using them in one way or the other so why should we be so
negative about spectacles? For animals dignity is almost entirely
physical (that's why we usually mercyfully kill a lame horse or any
chronically suffering domestic animal); for us it doesn't have to be
that way. We can fight if the going gets tough and turn a disatvantage
into an increase of will and character.
Ofcourse I know that we have plastic surgery for problems that are
hard to solve like facial deformation burns and other causes and so
there are no absolutes in the above statement, but spectacles are in
this respect the least of my cares.
I speak only for myself!
E-mail H.M.M.deJong@Phys.TUE.NL
Homepage http://www.etp.phys.tue.nl/herman/herman.htm
Phone (031) 40 2473472 Fax (031) 40 2456442
Snail Eindhoven University of Technology, Dept. of Phys.
P.O.Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Re: Stop SI! Part I
Dean Pentcheff
24 Jun 1997 12:25:13 -0400
Here's a challenge for the physically-minded...
I'm certainly aware of the crucial distinction between mass and weight
(or at least, as aware as a biomechanic can be, in the absence of
advanced training in physics). But I can't escape the feeling that an
insistence on the distinction is not terribly useful outside of
scientific and technical contexts.
For practical, day-to-day human affairs, the earth's gravitation is a
constant. Yes, it varies slightly across the globe, etc., but unless
one is targeting nuclear warheads or trying to measure the shape of
the geoid, does the variation amount to anything that affects people
daily?
I tend to feel that I'm drawing a pedantic distinction, insisting that
people "correctly" refer to mass or weight.
So here's my challenge: name five situations that are likely to occur
in conventional daily life where the mass/weight distinction matters.
Exclude cases like accurate airplane navigation (or, for that matter,
nuclear warhead targeting!) where people certainly are affected, but
without personal involvement. Navigation systems engineers worry
about it, but airplane passengers don't need to.
So, aside from the (not insignificant) intellectual pleasure of
drawing the mass/weight distinction, why should non-technical people
care?
-Dean
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CFP: Cooperative Research Information Systems in Physics
karttune@arwen.physics.mcgill.ca (Mikko Karttunen)
25 Jun 1997 15:43:00 GMT
The First International Workshop on
=====================================================
Cooperative Research Information Systems in Physics:
CRISP97
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Aug. 31 - Sept. 4, 1997, Oldenburg, Germany
Sponsored and supported by:
- The European Physical Society (EPS)
- Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)
- Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Wissenschaft,
Forschung und Technologie (BMBF)
Scope of the workshop:
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The purpose of the workshop is to bring together physicists,
computer scientists, and other experts to discuss issues
related to cooperative scientific information systems.
Internet and electronic communication methods have greatly
affected the way scienceis published and distributed, and
the importance of these issues will increase in the future.
It is therefore very important for the scientists, publishers,
and computer experts to meet and map their needs and discuss
the directions for the future development of electronic
communication in sciences.
Central Topics of CRISP '97 Include:
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- Content: Scientific documents, educational systems,
administrative information treatment, etc.
- Electronic publishing
- Information Infrastructure in Physics (and sciences
in general), cooperative work and distributed systems
- Technical issues: user friendly interfaces, metdata,
protocols, formats, methods, standards, etc.
- Dedicated systems, expert systems, tools, etc.
Invited Speakers (more to come, see the updates at the web site):
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- A. Dixon, Institute of Physics Publishing, UK
- T.A. Finholt, University of Michigan, U.S.A
- R.A. Kelly, The American Physical Society, U.S.A.
- S. Lundberg, NetLab, Lund University, Sweden
- H. Roosendaal, Elsevier Science, The Netherlands
- H. Schweppe, FU Berlin, Germany
- J. Zinn-Justin, Saclay, France
Format of the Meeting:
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- Invited talks: 30 minutes + 15 min. discussion
- Contributed talks: 10 minutes + 5 min. discussion
- There will also be a poster session
Student participation is strongly encouraged!
Organizing Committee:
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- Manfred Bischoff, Darmstadt, Germany
- Eberhard R. Hilf, Oldenburg, Germany (chairman)
- Kenneth Holmlund, Umea University, Sweden
- Mikko Karttunen, McGill University, Canada,
- Franck Laloe, ENS Paris, France
- Thomas Severiens, Oldenburg, Germany
- Ralf Utermann, Augsburg, Germany
Side Meetings:
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During CRISP '97 there will be several side meetings:
- Inaugural session of the EPS Electronic Publications
Committee
- First meeting of the EPS national Web-coordinators
- Project meeting of EuroPhysNet, an EC Telematics
for Research project
- Consortium Physics of the DPG
- Annual meeting of the Information Management
representatives of German Physics Institutions
- Project meeting of the DFN project 'eprint'
- Planning meeting of the BMBF project 'global-info'
in Physics
Registration:
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For details, please see the web site (URL below).
- Deadline for abstracts and registration: July, 15
- Fee: 300 DM, for students 100DM
- Accomodation: See the web site or/and contact us
For More Information:
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For more information about the workshop, or the side
meetings, please see the CRISP '97 web site,
or email us:
URL: http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~karttune/crisp97/
or
http://www.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/conferences/crisp97/
Mail to: Mikko.Karttunen@physics.mcgill.ca
About Oldenburg:
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Oldenburg is a scenic city of about 150 000 inhabitants.
It is located in the state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen)
about 40 kilometers northwest of Bremen and 130 kilometers
southwest of Hamburg.
The web site contains some helpful links, and information
about Oldenburg and how to get there.
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Re: Stop SI! Part I
Dean Pentcheff
26 Jun 1997 13:37:14 -0400
Dean Pentcheff writes:
> Here's a challenge for the physically-minded...
...
> So here's my challenge: name five situations that are likely to occur
> in conventional daily life where the mass/weight distinction matters.
> Exclude cases like accurate airplane navigation (or, for that matter,
> nuclear warhead targeting!) where people certainly are affected, but
> without personal involvement. Navigation systems engineers worry
> about it, but airplane passengers don't need to.
>
> So, aside from the (not insignificant) intellectual pleasure of
> drawing the mass/weight distinction, why should non-technical people
> care?
My labmate, Chris Finelli, came up with one that strikes me as quite
valid:
When you stand in a swimming pool you indeed weigh less, but your mass
remains constant. Putting a bathroom scale on the floor of a pool and
weighing yourself there is an effective strategy for weight loss, but
not for mass loss...
-Dean
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