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Encyclopedia of Family Health - Vol. 13
Includes: Psychotherapy - Scans

Book by David B. Jacoby, Robert M. Youngson; Marshall Cavendish, 2005

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Health--Encyclopedias, Medicine, Popular--Encyclopedias

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Scans I am pregnant and have...I have an ultrasound scan. Why? A full bladder...When my father had a CT scan after a stroke, the...often injected with CT , scans and other X-ray techniques...damage. I need an MRI scan, but I suffer from claustrophobia...
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Quick Scan of Post 9/11 National Counter-Terrorism Policymaking and Implementation in Selected European Countries: Research Project for the Netherlands Ministry of Justice

Book by Erik Van De Linde, Kevin Oíbrien, Gustav Lindstrom, Stephan De Spiegeleire, Mikko Vayrynen, Han De Vries; Rand, 2002

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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, Terrorism--European Union Countries--Prevention, Terrorism--Government Policy--European Union Countries

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...stepped up significantly, and will soon reach 100% capacity to scan all luggage. It already has reached full functionality to ensure...equipment. At a later stage, cutting edge biometry such as iris-scans and even DNA-profiling could come into play as well. For...
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Workforce Readiness: Competencies and Assessment

Book by Harold F. O'Neil Jr.; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997

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Educational Tests And Measurements--United States, School-To-Work Transition--United States, Workplace Literacy--United States--Evaluation

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...Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills SCANS, 1991 report, which defined competencies...the nations schools and workplaces. The SCANS initiative is now focused on creating valid...1994 . One of the most important goals of SCANS, which convened in 1990 at the request...
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Learning as Self-Organization

Book by Karl H. Pribram, Joseph King; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996

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Behaviorism (Psychology), Learning, Psychology Of, Neuropsychology, Self-Organizing Systems

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...is displayed on the right. Ten separate scans were used, each involving computerized...2,500 ms. The no-decision baseline scans 1 and 2 served as a control for visual...decisions OD were assessed in the next four scans. During two of these scans 3 and 4; new...
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The Complete Thyroid Book

Book by Kenneth Ain, M. Sara Rosenthal; McGraw-Hill, 2005

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Thyroid Gland--Diseases--Popular Works

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...it can provide a useful scan image; however, it does...picture as an iodine isotope scan. When Not to Use Thyroid Scans Its unfortunate, but most of the thyroid scans that physicians order...for undergoing a thyroid scan. First, if you are thyrotoxic...

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Ranks of Genuine Associations in Whole-genome Scans

Journal article by Dmitri V. Zaykin, Lev A. Zhivotovsky; Genetics, Vol. 171, 2005

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Errors, Genetic Markers, Genomics, Probability, Studies, Testing, Tests

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...for the subset of all scans that have passed the correction...a single given genome scan, they are expected to improve among the scans that passed the threshold...in actual association scans (OzAKi et al. 2002...every association genome scan as well as the typically...
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Controlling the False-positive Rate in Multilocus Genome Scans for Selection

Journal article by Kevin R. Thornton, Jeffrey D. Jensen; Genetics, Vol. 175, 2007

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Genomics, Population genetics, Statistics

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...region surveyed in a genome scan (i.e., the length...METHODS Simulating genome-scan data: We simulated genomescan...2006). Such genome scans consist of two phases...They simulated genome-scan experiments consisting...economic efficiency of genome scans, in terms of SNPs discovered...
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An Empirical Bayes Method for Updating Inferences in Analysis of Quantitative Trait Loci Using Information from Related Genome Scans

Journal article by Kui Zhang, Howard Wiener, Mark Beasley, Varghese George; Genetics, Vol. 173, 2006

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Bayesian analysis, Confidence intervals, Estimates, Genomics, Meta-analysis, Quantitative genetics, Statistical methods, Studies

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...Individual genome scans have low power to...from multiple genome scan studies is emerging...markers and k genome-scan studies using sib...available from k genome scans using sib pairs and...markers and k genome-scan studies using sib...available from k genome scans using sib pairs and...
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A Curious Consensus: "brain Scans Prove Disease"?

Journal article by Grace E. Jackson; Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol. 8, 2006

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Curious Consensus: "brain Scans Prove Disease"? by Grace...on a functional brain scan in the course of a recent...baseline from activated scans, or by subtracting the...suspect features on a brain scan, if those features represent...justify the claim that brain scans discern the presence of...
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A Genetical Genomics Approach to Genome Scans Increases Power for Qtl Mapping

Journal article by Guoying Sun, Paul Schliekelman; Genetics, Vol. 187, 2011

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Gene loci, Genetics, Genomes, Genomics

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...Genomics Approach to Genome Scans Increases Power for Qtl Mapping...is the traditional genome-scan setting-that is, gene mapping...that are essentially genome scans in the sense of identifying...expression information in genome scans) is that genetic variation...

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Lung Scan: CT May Catch Some Treatable Cancers

Magazine article by N. Seppa; Science News, Vol. 170, October 28, 2006

Subjects:

CAT scans--Forecasts and trends, CAT scans--Usage, CT imaging--Forecasts and trends, CT imaging--Usage, Lung cancer--Diagnosis, Lung cancer--Patient outcomes, Lung cancer--Risk factors

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Lung Scan: CT May Catch Some...computed tomography (CT) scans catch lung cancer early...potential harm." The CT scans in this study resulted...asking a doctor for a CT scan as a test for lung cancer...screened with either CT scans or chest X rays. A...
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Database Matches Disease CT Scans

Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 128, February 2000

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CAT scans--Technology application, CT imaging--Technology application, Diagnostic imaging--Technology application

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...in a large database of scans from previous patients...views a patients medical scan and then searches for...containing hundreds of CT scans that have been selected...conditions, and the four scans that best match the patients...enhanced. Because a CT scan is taken in sections...
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Full-Body CT Scans: What You Need to Know

Magazine article by Carol Lewis; FDA Consumer, Vol. 35, November 2001

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CAT scans--Health aspects, CT imaging--Health aspects, Tomography--Health aspects, X-rays--Health aspects

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Full-Body CT Scans: What You Need to Know...conscious people: full-body CT scans--high-tech computerized...been done to support using CT scans for screening people without...says Shope. During a CT scan, an X-ray tube housed inside...
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Scans Success Story

Magazine article by Kelley M. Blassingame; Techniques, Vol. 75, January 2000

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Academic achievement, Achievement tests, Baltimore Maryland, CD-ROM, Curricula, Schools, Students

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Scans Success Story by Kelley M. Blassingame The...CD-ROM is one of three designed by the SCANS 2000 Center, run by the Center for Technology...Commission for Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS). SCANS emphasizes a basic foundation in...
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Full-body Scans--or Scams?

Magazine article by Dorothy L. Pennachio; Medical Economics, Vol. 79, August 9, 2002

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Conflict, Medical procedures, Medical screening, Preventive medicine, Trends, United States

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...no set standard on how scans are performed, or how...radiation from one body scan alone is equal to about...caveats about full-body scans, however. He says quality...depending on where the scan is done, who does the...Needham emphasizes that the scans efficacy varies with the...

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CT Scan Radiation Might Cause Cancer Later

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 21, 2009

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CAT scans--Health aspects, CAT scans--Reports, CT imaging--Health aspects, CT imaging--Reports, Cancer research--Health aspects, Cancer research--Reports, Cancer treatment--Health aspects, Cancer treatment--Reports, Cancer--Care and treatment, Cancer--Health aspects, Cancer--Reports, Cancer--Research, Diagnostic imaging--Health aspects, Diagnostic imaging--Reports, Oncology, Experimental--Health aspects, Oncology, Experimental--Reports, Radiation (Physics)--Health aspects, Radiation (Physics)--Reports, Radiation--Health aspects, Radiation--Reports

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CT Scan Radiation Might...computerized tomography scans may cause cancer...small. So if the scan is clinically justified...the risks." CT scans produce detailed...get cancer from CT scans done in 2007, about...estimated. If CT scan use remains at its...
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Inquiry after CT Scans Are Linked to Cancer Risk

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 21, 2006

Subjects:

CAT scans--Health aspects, CT imaging--Health aspects, Cancer--Health aspects, Cancer--Risk factors, Diagnostic imaging--Health aspects

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Inquiry after CT Scans Are Linked to Cancer Risk. Byline: EMILY...been ordered into the safety of medical scans carried out on more than 100,000 patients...examining the practice of preventative scans - which use very high doses of radiation...
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CT Scan Surge for Kids' Emergencies Raises Concern

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, April 6, 2011

Subjects:

CAT scans, CT imaging, Children, Diagnostic imaging, Radiation, Radiation (Physics)

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CT Scan Surge for Kids Emergencies...kids are getting CT scans in emergency rooms...home (without a CT scan) and it turns out...Larson said.CT scans were most commonly...for adjusting CT scan radiation doses...with ordering" CT scans, Swindle said...
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CAT Scan Cancer Fear; Radiation 'Could Trigger the Disease in One in 80 Patients'

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 15, 2009

Subjects:

CAT scans, CT imaging, Cancer, Cancer treatment, Cancer--Care and treatment, Radiation, Radiation (Physics)

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...suggest, a single scan can be the equivalent...rays. Although the scans - CT stands for computed...for certain kinds of scans was as high as one...delivered by a single CT scan was the equivalent...radiation dosage of each scan and estimated the...might involve three scans, looking at different...
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CAT Scan Cancer Fear; Radiation 'Could Trigger the Disease in One in 80 Patients'

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 15, 2009

Subjects:

CAT scans, CT imaging, Cancer, Cancer treatment, Cancer--Care and treatment, Radiation, Radiation (Physics)

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...suggest, a single scan can be the equivalent...rays. Although the scans - CT stands for computed...for certain kinds of scans was as high as one...delivered by a single CT scan was the equivalent...radiation dosage of each scan and estimated the...might involve three scans, looking at different...

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Pet Scan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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PET SCAN pet or positron emission tomography poz itron imish n t mog r fe, a medical...positively charged particles) emitted by the tracer collide with electrons. PET scans are especially valuable in imaging the brain. They are used in medicine...
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Ct Scan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

CT SCAN see CAT scan . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Cat Scan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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CAT SCAN kat c omputerized a xial t omography, X-ray technique that allows relatively...rapid diagnosis in previously inaccessible areas of the body; also called CT scan. An X-ray tube, rotating around a specific area of the body, delivers...
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Anatomy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...have significantly refined the study of anatomy: X rays , CAT scans , and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are only several of...the Internet using data from thousands of photographs, CAT scans, and MRIs of tiny cross sections of the body. See H. Gray...
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Television

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...hole passes across, or "scans," a narrow, ring-shaped...causes the electronic beam to scan the back of a mosaic of...where an electron beam scans the fluorescent face, called...the three color signals, scan the elements together in...

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