Sunday, December 11, 2005

What Happened To Freeones

The alcohol hangover: a public health problem of poorly researched

The lack of scientific interest in research on alcohol is dangerous surf. To most people consumed alcohol once they are familiar with the unpleasant effects of the hangover that may occur the day after a night of partying and how these symptoms may affect the development of activities the day after drinking .

The alcohol hangover involves a constellation of unpleasant sensations such as numbness, nausea and decreased sensation of alertness, which can result in widespread misery day after a night of drinking. Although the alcoholic hangover has serious economic consequences in terms of absenteeism and poor job performance, research is limited. In addition, current knowledge about the specific causes of alcohol hangover is insufficient to devise an appropriate treatment. So far, the best remedy to prevent hangovers is to reduce alcohol consumption. Cognitive and psychomotor responses may be significantly affected during hangover. It is shown that the response of long-term memory is decreased significantly, while the short-term memory and recognition ability were not affected.

The causes remain unknown alcoholic hangover. If it is thought that the effects of ethanol and its metabolites derived (especially acetaldehyde) and congeners, dehydration, sleep disorders and the physiological, endocrine and psychological factors play an important role in producing hangover symptoms .

binge drinkers are 21 times more likely than non-compulsive to do damages, not performing on the job, failure to meet student duties, damaging private property, damage or injury, being involved in unplanned sexual activity, not using protection during sex, among others. The impact on the lives of others surrounding binge drinkers is evident, since among other things, suffer from disturbed sleep, they should pay for someone intoxicated, are humiliated or insulted, have serious discussions, participating in fights or less frequent They are victims of sexual assault.

So far, the effects of a hangover in the driver's ability to remain uncertain. However, during the backwash is significantly reduced alertness and numerous adverse effects.

are few studies investigating possible treatments to relieve hangover symptoms and prevention methods to avoid them. Moreover, cognitive and psychomotor performance can be significantly decreased during the hangover. Currently, the only appropriate treatment to prevent the onset of a hangover is to reduce the consumption of alcohol. Cheers

Friday, December 2, 2005

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Fractals, Geometry of the Universe

A fractal is an object that exhibits self-similarity (recursion, in mathematical terms) at any scale . That is, if you look at a portion any of a fractal object, we note that this section is to replicate on a smaller scale of the figure.

The universe is made of fractals, from galaxies to bacteria ... even our brains!, See this link to be convinced.

Although his "discovery" math took place in 1872, their representation is very old. Already in the Renaissance fractal patterns were used in stained glass, architecture, painting, etc. Then they "went out of fashion" to be resurrected in the 60's through the psychedelic art.

The term was proposed by BenoƮt Mandelbrot in 1975.

Except I doubt that Renaissance artists who have used such forms have had formal training in mathematics, which shows that despite its complexity, the human mind has always sensed its existence.

Fractals are everywhere, even without us noticing. Examples include clouds, mountains, turbulence, coastlines and trees. Even when formally admitted as fractal mathematics to that body only:
  • detail has arbitrarily large or small scales.
  • is too irregular to be described in traditional geometric terms
  • have exact self-similarity or statistical
  • is defined recursively.
Fractals figures are not only beautiful but also serve to describe behaviors, such as data traffic over the Internet is fractal. Indeed

birth of stars can be seen as fractal systems (chaos theory), where a small interaction is replicated millions of times and each one of those, in turn continues to replicate ..... and so on. It could infer that the universe is a very complex, huge and elusive fractal.

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