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Cafe Astrology Astrology Signs, Horoscopes, Love Acupuncture: ancient tradition meets modern science - Special Collection Acupuncture is among the oldest healing practices in the world. It has been practiced in China and other Asian countries for thousands of years. According to the philosophy of traditional acupuncture, energy circulates in ’meridians’ located throughout the body. When something occurs to cause this meridian energy circulation to be blocked, pain or ill health will result. Research suggests that acupuncture may work by stimulating the nervous system to release neurotransmitters involved in pain-suppressing mechanisms or by suppressing the nervous system pathways involved in the sensory and affective components of pain. Given that it is a relatively safe treatment, the question of whether or not acupuncture is an effective healthcare treatment therefore is highly relevant. Asthma Acupuncture for chronic asthma Asthma is a major health problem and causes significant mortality. Eyes & vision Acupuncture for glaucoma Gastrointestinal disorders Acupuncture for treatment of irritable bowel syndrome
REAP07: Student input to assessment design & strategy Are you involved in externally funded projects that require a web presence? Do you need a stand-alone website to link into www.strath.ac.uk? Do you need interactive tools such as discussion boards, online forms, content management, blogs, wikis, etc? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be interested in the Enhanced Web Development Service, set up to provide solutions for these needs. We will design and brand a new website for your project to your specification, with the tools and features you need. We will manage the hosting of the site on University servers providing ongoing maintenance throughout the lifetime of the project. All of this can be achieved within the University web framework, ensuring that your site will conform to the legal and administrative requirements for accessibility, data protection, branding etc.
CAM Websites: Integrative Medicine: University of Maryland School of Medicine The Internet links below provide access to sites with content pertaining to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). These sites are not affiliated with the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and as such inclusion in this listing does not imply an endorsement of these organizations or the content of these sites. A.D.A.M. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Content.The University of Maryland Medical Center licenses content from A.D.A.M. to provide up-to-date information on complementary and alternative medicine and integrate it into its site. American Botanical Council (ABC)An independent, nonprofit, international organization providing information about herbs and botanicals.
Heave ho, scallywags, there’s events listings o’er thar to liber (Avast, me hearties, this is the last of the pirate postings. Just be glad they weren’t podcasts So the other ‘mashups’ itch I’ve been wanting to scratch recently revolves around events listings, specifically a list of ed tech conferences that’s been around for a few years. But in this age of participatory media and user generated content, does it make any sense for lists like these to get created and maintained by one person, in a Word document? Aye, you say, but it was probably the easiest tool at hand for what was a selfless act of giving back to the community. Scrape, Clean and then… So, much the same as the first exercise, we’ll use Dapper to scrape the HTML page, and Pipes to clean up unwanted stuff. Dabble Away! …except there’s this neat service called Dabble DB that allows you to create online databases very easily. Even better though – you can point Dabble DB at an RSS feed or webpage with a table in it, and it will create a database based on those. So what?
About - Cochrane CAM Field: Integrative Medicine: University of Maryland School of Medicine The Cochrane CAM Field is an international group of individuals dedicated to facilitating the production of systematic reviews of randomized clinical trials in areas such as acupuncture, massage, chiropractic, herbal medicine, homeopathy and mind-body therapy. It is a member entity of the Cochrane Collaboration, a worldwide organization that prepares systematic reviews of all kinds of healthcare therapies, and publishes these reviews in The Cochrane Library . Founded in 1996 and coordinated by the University of Maryland Center for Integrative Medicine, the Cochrane CAM Field has worked steadily to meet the growing demand for information about CAM therapies among both practitioners and the general public by identifying published clinical trials of alternative therapies, preparing systematic reviews, training systematic reviewers, disseminating systematic reviews to the general public and healthcare providers, and conducting research to improve systematic review methodology.
Compound Information Objects: The OAI-ORE Perspective This document is a work in progress of Open Archives Initiative - Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE). It was used as a discussion document in preparation of the May 2007 meeting of the ORE Technical Committee. Please send feedback to ore@openarchives.org. OAI-ORE is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Science Foundation. The authors acknowledge the contributions of: OAI-ORE Technical Committee Les Carr, University of Southampton Tim DiLauro, Johns Hopkins University Leigh Dodds, Ingenta David Fulker, UCAR Tony Hammond, Nature Publishing Group Pete Johnston, Eduserv Foundation Richard Jones, Imperial College Peter Murray, OhioLINK Michael Nelson, Old Dominion University Ray Plante, NCSA and National Virtual Observatory Rob Sanderson, University of Liverpool Simeon Warner, Cornell University Jeff Young, OCLC OAI-ORE Liaison Group Figure 1 - A compound information object: identified aggregation of multiple components · URIs that identify
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Index (CAM) A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org). URAC's accreditation program is an independent audit to verify that A.D.A.M. follows rigorous standards of quality and accountability. A.D.A.M. is among the first to achieve this important distinction for online health information and services. Learn more about A.D.A.M.' The information provided herein should not be used during any medical emergency or for the diagnosis or treatment of any medical condition.
Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities Integrative Medicine: The Importance of Magnesium to Human Nutrition Magnesium is an extremely important and valuable mineral, whose value for good health is just being recognized by conventional physicians. Virtually, all chemical reactions in the body require an enzyme system to help the biochemical reaction take place. An enzyme system generally consists of three parts. In the USA, magnesium supplementation is dramatically under utilized by conventional physicians and is more important in patient therapy than most physicians realize. Up until recently, conventional medicine's interest in magnesium has been only by obstetricians, who have used injectable magnesium sulfate extensively in the treatment of high blood pressure and pre-eclampsia and eclampsia of pregnancy. Symptoms of Magnesium Deficiency? Other symptoms and signs of magnesium deficiency and discuss laboratory testing for this common condition.
Appreciative inquiry According to Gervase R. Bushe[1] (2013) "Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a method for studying and changing social systems (groups, organizations, communities) that advocates collective inquiry into the best of what is in order to imagine what could be, followed by collective design of a desired future state that is compelling and thus, does not require the use of incentives, coercion or persuasion for planned change to occur." Developed and extended since the mid 1980s primarily by students and faculty of the Department of Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University, AI revolutionized the field of organization development and was a precursor to the rise of positive organization studies and the strengths based movement in American management." Basis and Principles[edit] The Appreciative Inquiry model is based on the assumption that the questions we ask will tend to focus our attention in a particular direction. Instead of asking “What’s the problem?” Implementing AI[edit]