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Ronald Pies - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Why psychiatry and neurology cannot simply merge.
The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences, 2005Co-Authors: Ronald PiesAbstract:Dr. Pies is with Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. Address correspondence to Dr. Pies, Tufts University School of Medicine, BOX 1007, 750 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111; ronpies@massmed.org (E-mail). Copyright 2005 American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. C the case of the optician and the art critic. Each is viewing a painting at a museum, and each is asked to describe the image. The optician says, If we superimpose an x and y axis on this image, we find that at x 4 and y 5.2, there is an essentially rectangular patch of Yellow that continues along the horizontal axis until x 5.1, where it changes to Prussian blue. The art critic says, It is a man in a Yellow Rain coat, with an angry expression, and large, steel-blue eyes. Scruton comments that, “ . . . you could imagine these descriptions being . . . so complete that they would enable a third party to reconstruct the picture by using them as a set of instructions. But they have nothing whatever in common. . . . You cannot switch from one narrative to the other and still make sense . . . ” In this editorial, I argue that—like the optician and the art critic—neurology and psychiatry are guided by significantly different narratives or what postmodern philosophers like to call discourses. Discourses are essentially the “ . . . complex[es] of credentials, protocols, jargon, and specialized knowledge that defines theory and practice within the human sciences . . . ” Discourses include the linguistic core of a discipline, as represented in its textbooks, journal articles, and habitual modes of presenting data. I would like to suggest that, while not nearly so far apart as the optician and the art critic, the disciplines of psychiatry and neurology still utilize discourses too disparate to permit a merger of the two fields in the very near future. Thus, my argument is that psychiatry and neurology cannot simply merge. I hope it will become clear that this is quite a different claim than, psychiatry and neurology simply cannot merge. With the appropriate transitional mechanisms and discourses, there is reason to believe that psychiatry and neurology will someday find themselves subsumed in a larger and broader discipline that I call encephiatrics.
Bahman Zohuri - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Directed Energy Weapons - Directed Energy Weapons
Directed Energy Weapons, 2016Co-Authors: Bahman ZohuriAbstract:Will the United States develop laser and beam weaponry for a strong nuclear defense to replace the policy of mutually assured destruction. Has the Soviet Union violated treaties by using “Yellow Rain” in Afghanistan and Indochina? What future lies in store for the clean neutron bomb? What kinds of super missiles are being tested for the future? What new biological and chemical weapons has the United States been cooking up?
Mary Ann Yang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Commentary: Ignorance as Bias: Radiolab, Yellow Rain, and “The Fact of the Matter”
Hmong Studies Journal, 2017Co-Authors: Paul Hillmer, Mary Ann YangAbstract:In 2012 the National Public Radio show “Radiolab” released a podcast (later broadcast on air) essentially asserting that Hmong victims of a suspected chemical agent known as “Yellow Rain” were ignorant of their surroundings and the facts, and were merely victims of exposure, dysentery, tainted water, and other natural causes. Relying heavily on the work of Dr. Matthew Meselson, Dr. Thomas Seeley, and former CIA officer Merle Pribbenow, Radiolab asserted that Hmong victims mistook bee droppings, defecated en masse from flying Asian honey bees, as “Yellow Rain.” They brought their foregone conclusions to an interview with Eng Yang, a self-described Yellow Rain survivor, and his niece, memoirist Kao Kalia Yang, who served as translator. The interview went horribly wrong when their dogged belief in the “bee dung hypothesis” was met with stiff and ultimately impassioned opposition. Radiolab’s confirmation bias led them to dismiss contradictory scientific evidence and mislead their audience. While the authors remain agnostic about the potential use of Yellow Rain in Southeast Asia, they believe the evidence shows that further study is needed before a final conclusion can be reached
Aziz Purwantoro - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Keragaman Molekuler pada Tanaman Lili Hujan (Zephyranthes spp.) Molecular Variance in Rain Lily (Zephyranthes spp.)
2015Co-Authors: Tenti Okta Vika, Aziz PurwantoroAbstract:Molecular identification using RAPD markers in the Rain lily that grows in Indonesia has not been done. Therefore, it is necessary to characterize the genetic diversity of the Rain lily that grows in Indonesia as a preliminary study for the breeding program. This study aimed to calculate the genetic diversity of the three types of Rain lily with RAPD technique and calculate the genetic distance of Rain lily based on genetic markers’s information. The experiment was conducted in June - October 2014 in the Genetics and Plant Breeding Laboratory, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta. The study was conducted by using three kind of Rain lily that has pink, white, and Yellow flower’s color were taken from three different locations for each color, in each location was taken three plant samples for each color. Eleven selected primers were used in the RAPD are OPA2, OPA 9, OPA 11, OPA 16, OPA 18, OPB 10, OPB 19, OPC 5, 7 OPC, OPC 10, and the OPD 5. The results showed that the percentage of diversity in the population is higher than the variability between populations in 27 individual Rain lilies. The value of genetic diversity in Yellow, pink, and white Rain lily are 0,1388, 0,1291, and 0,1231 respectively. The genetic distance in 27 individual Rain lilies ranged from 0,59 to 0,03. Genetic distance between pink and white plants is 0,3 and the genetic distance between Yellow plants with pink and white plants is 0,03. Based on the analysis of genetic distance and PCoA, Yellow Rain lily has a higher diversity than pink and white Rain lily.
Henry Wilde - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The "Yellow Rain" controversy: are there lessons from the past?
Asian Biomedicine, 2010Co-Authors: Henry WildeAbstract:A quarter century has passed since the “Yellow Rain” biological warfare controversy in Southeast Asia had become a major news item worldwide. The debate whether or not a biological warfare weapon was used at that time has never abated and was the subject of a recent PhD thesis. Starting in the late 1970’s, persistent reports of chemical attacks appeared originating from Hmong resistance forces in Laos fighting the Vietnamese and Pathet Lao forces. Soon, similar reports came from the Khmer Rouge as well as from the anti-communist Khmer Peoples National Liberation Front who also were engaging the Vietnamese army as well as the Khmer Rouge. The Soviet-backed Vietnamese army was held responsible for use of chemical and/or biological agents. Attacks were said to be in the form of gas or “Yellow Rain”-like toxic spray delivered by aircraft or artillery. Many rapid and more delayed deaths of domestic animals as well as humans were said to have resulted. The initial reports were in the form of interviews of refugees, usually originating from relief workers, missionaries and international news-service reporters. No reliable witness interrogation by professionals or forensic laboratory investigation was conducted and no “smoking gun” was found. Much of this seemed a repetition of similar accusations directed previously at the Soviets in Afghanistan. It was similar to what the US had been accused of during the Korean War and reminiscent of the more recent accusations against Saddam Hussein in Iraq which helped start the Iraq war. Chemical and biological weapons were banned by the Geneva Convention of 1925 which was signed by a majority of countries. It seems that this convention had been largely ignored. The author believes that valuable lessons can still be learned from reviewing these events.
