New: The Journal of Humanities and Information Systems

Dear colleagues

It is my pleasure to announce a new journal, published by IBIMA, that will cater for articles in the interdisciplinary field of Information Systems and the Humanities (JHIS). This is a call for submissions for the first edtion of JHIS.

JOURNAL DESCRIPTION

The Journal of Humanities and Information Systems (JHIS) is an international peer reviewed and applied research journal that publishes papers on the symbiotic relationship between the two disciplines of Information Systems and the Humanities. Its unique focus will be research on Humanities-enriched IS, but other Humanities-Computing papers and case studies will also be considered. All papers will be subjected to a multiple blind peer review process. Papers should contribute to the existing body of knowledge of the domain in terms of theory and/or practice.

MISSION

JHIS aims to create an international forum to discuss and evaluate studies that implement theoretical constructs borrowed from the Humanities in various aspects of Information Systems, as well as investigations regarding the application of information technology in the Humanities. The creation of
publication opportunities for research with refreshing angles, some borrowed from other sciences, is a conscious effort to share interest and useful research and to counteract rigid procedures that are "stifling the intellectual advancement of our discipline" (Shoib and Nandhakumar, 2009).

SCOPE

Topics of interest for this journal include, but are not limited to, the following list:

• Linguistics and Information Systems
• History and Information Systems
• Art and Information Systems
• Philosophy and Information Systems
• Law and Information Systems
• Hermeneutics and Information Systems

CALL FOR ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS TO JHIS

Since there still are limited publication opportunities for Information System scientists (cf. Straub, 2009:v) in comparison with some other older, well-established disciplines, new opportunities should be embraced and used in order to build our discipline. Therefore, our colleagues are invited to submit some of their research outputs to this new outlet.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS AND PEER REVIEWERS

Please let me know if you would be interested to become an associate editor or peer reviewer of JHIS.
The editors and reviewers of JHIS should be like diamond miners taking a positive view while looking for "exciting forays into new research domains" (Straub, 2009:vii). The general aim in the review processes of this new journal will be to be inclusive and developmental rather than to perform "a
modern hygiene ritual", because we agree with Wastell and MacMaster (2008:64) that "a high rejection rate implies a collective failure of scholarship not the intellectual prosperity of a field".

For more information about the journal and submissions, see:
http://www.ibimapublishing.com/journals/JHIS/jhis.html

Jan H. Kroeze, School of Computing, University of South Africa
(editor-in-chief)

My source:
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 451
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist

HCI 2011 Health, Wealth and Happiness Call for Papers

The 25th British Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI2011)

July 4th - 8th, 2011 at Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.

The HCI Educators conference, Workshops and Tutorials will be held on 4th and 5th July, 2011 and a Doctorial Consortium on the 5th July. The main conference runs from the 6th-8th July, 2011. HCI 2011 is organised by the PaCT Lab (Northumbria University) in cooperation with the British Computer Society.

This year we will be looking for papers to put in our alt.hci sessions. So if you think your work doesn't usually make it into this conference then maybe this year is your year.

Accepted papers will be published by BCS in the annual conference proceedings, freely available online in BCS Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) and will also be included in the ACM digital library.

Important Dates:

• Full Paper and Workshop submission: 21st January, 2011
• Workshop notification of acceptance: 11th February, 2011
• Work in Progress and alt.chi submission: 18th February, 2011
• Short and Posters  submission: 18th February, 2011
• Demos and Experiences submission: 18th February, 2011
• Doctoral Consortium 18th February, 2011
• Panels: 18th February, 2011
• Notification of Acceptance for all other categories: 8th April 2011
• Camera-ready copy for proceedings required by 6th May 2011

Deadline for author registration: 4th May 2011

Conference: 4th July - 8th July, 2011

Conference Scope and Description:

Human Computer Interaction is a key area of computing. This is the leading conference in the field of Human Computer Interaction in the UK. It covers the design, evaluation and application of techniques and approaches for interacting with devices and services.  HCI is now on its 25th conference and at this anniversary we ask you to reflect on our theme of Health, Wealth and Happiness. Technology is posed to play a growing part in our health and maintaining well being into older age; wealth manifests itself in many ways, many of which we do not always recognise - relationships, richness of life experience, creativity and innovation, knowledge and qualities of character. Lastly is there a relationship between happiness and technology use, will more gadgets increase our well being? And as ever contributions in any aspect of HCI are welcome.

Suggested topics:

We solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere including the following topics:

• Affective interaction
• Aesthetic interaction
• Art and interaction
• Bodily interaction
• Cyber-relationships, sex and eroticism
• Design and Evaluation methods
• Ethnographic and field studies
• Ethics and HCI
• Experience Design
• Fun and Play
• Health informatics and technology
• Human values
• Information visualization and presentation
• Interaction Criticism
• Moods, meditation and relaxation
• Musical and audio interaction
• Novel interaction techniques and devices
• Privacy, Security and Trust
• Social networking
• Spirituality and Beliefs
• Sustainability and HCI
• Ubiquitous, pervasive, and mobile interaction
• Universal design
• Usability studies
• User Experience
• Wearables and fashion
• Wellbeing and technology

Keynote Speakers

• Abigail Sellon, Microsoft Research, UK
• Gregory Abowd, Georgia Tech, USA

Paper Submission:

Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format. All submissions should be formatted to the ACM standard, see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates , and will appear on-line in the BCS EWiCS series and the ACM Digital Library.

Submissions should be made through the EasyChair system, which will open for submissions in November and will be linked from the conference website http://www.hci2011.co.uk/ with detailed instructions. We have put together an international review panel. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer-reviewers, selected by the appropriate chairs. Additional guidelines can be found on the conference's website.

It is a condition of acceptance that at least one author must register for each accepted paper, no later than the early bird deadline of 4th May 2011.

Aspirin Prevents Colon Cancer Risk

Low-dose aspirin are consumed every day in the long term effective way to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer up to one quarter. The risk of dying from this disease is also reduced by a third.

Earlier low-dose aspirin is also recommended for patients who have a high risk of heart attack and stroke. In the prevention of colon cancer or colon cancer, aspirin in high doses are effective but have side effects bleeding.

Therefore, experts tried to examine whether if the dose is lowered, the effect remains the same protection. In this study the researchers followed up four research conducted in England and Sweden between the years 1980-1990 on the effects of aspirin in cardiovascular patients.

In general, the research for six years, participants were asked to take aspirin in doses of 1200 mg or placebo pills. More than 14,000 patients who attended medical history for 18 years, 391 colorectal cancers.

Those who took aspirin, the risk of cancer was reduced by 24 percent and mortality risk can be reduced to 35 percent. The results of this research is consistent in the four studies. Unfortunately there are no data on side effects in long-term aspirin use because since the beginning of this study was designed to examine cardiovascular disease.

"The results of this study indicate the use of low-dose aspirin in the long term in combination with screening can reduce the incidence of cancer throughout the colon and rectum," says Peter Rothwell, of Oxford University.

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common types of cancer occur in men and women. The risk of this cancer seems more frequent in those with diets high in fat and low in vegetables and fresh fruit. Colorectal cancer risk was also higher in smokers, drinkers and those with less exercise.

Rivaroxaban, Most Innovative Drug

Anti-clotting drug Rivaroxaban was awarded as the most innovative drugs in the International Prix Galien 2010. Bayer Schering Pharma Drug production is set aside five competitors, including AstraZeneca's Iressa and Erbitux made from Merck Serono. Previous Rivaroxaban was awarded the Prix Galien was also at the national level in Belgium, France and Switzerland.

Prix Gallen Award gives awards for outstanding achievement in improving health through innovative medicine and is considered equivalent to the Nobel prize in the field of biopharmaceutical research. Prix Galien International Award Committee in 2010 consisted of the winners of the Nobel Prize, led by Gerald Weissmann, MD, Professor of Rheumatology and Director of the Biotechnology Study Center, Faculty of Medicine at the University of New York.

"We are very pleased to receive this award and honored for
worldwide recognition of this committee. Given the Prix Galien International Award for Best Pharmaceutical Agent underscores our efforts to innovation which is the focus character of our company ", commented Dr. Marijn Dekkers, Chairman of the Board of Management of Bayer AG through a press release.

Rivaroxaban is a new oral anticoagulant found in Bayer Schering Pharma Wuppertal laboratories in Germany, and was developed jointly between Bayer HealthCare and Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, LLC

In clinical studies, Rivaroxaban has consistently shown superior efficacy compared with enoxaparin in the prevention of blood clots in veins (VTE) in adult patients who runs the hip joint replacement surgery or knee.

This medicine may work faster with a predictable dose response and with a high bioavailability, is not required supervision on blood coagulation, and also with limited potential to interact with food and medicine.

Rivaroxaban marketed under the trade name Xarelto ® for the prevention of VTE in adult patients who runs the hip joint replacement surgery or knee, and this drug is the first oral anti-coagulants that have consistently demonstrated superior efficacy compared with enoxaparin for this indication.

Rixaroxaban been approved in more than 100 countries around the world and has been launched successfully in over 75 countries. Clinical trial program that supports Rivaroxaban has made many of these drugs into oral drugs Factor Xa directly the most studied in the world today.

Over 65,000 patients involved in clinical development programs Rivaroxaban, which evaluates the product for the prevention and treatment for a wide range of disorders of acute and chronic blood clots, including stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation, secondary prevention of acute coronary syndrome, and prevention of VTE in patients that must be treated in hospital.

Prix Galien Award 2010 will also be given to Firazyr (icatibant) manufactured by Shire Pharmaceuticals for the category of Orphan Drug for the treatment of hereditary angioedema disease in adults. This hereditary disease is an immune system disorder, which causes tissue swelling abruptly.

Chlorophyll, The Green Disease Prevention

Fortunately for those who love to eat green vegetables. Source of food low in fat and rich in fiber has many health benefits because it contains nutrients and non nutrients that are needed body, one of which is chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants giver.

In everyday life, chlorophyll has become a familiar consumer products for our health. Starting from the vegetables we eat, a safe dye for food and traditional beverages, up to natural dyes for weaving and batik.

In the world of health, chlorophyll is now developed as one of the supplements to boost immunity. Even the role of chlorophyll is now being developed in tumors and cancer therapy. Many research results have shown chlorophyll antimutagenic properties (preventing the spread of cancer-causing genes).

According Prof.Dr.Made Astawan, Professor of Food Technology IPB, in his book Aneka Food Nutrition, chlorophyll binding of compounds to inhibit the reaction of a carcinogen (causes cancer) with DNA, and counteract the radical compound reaction. Chlorophyll can also protect the immune system through its ability to reduce the reactivity of radical compounds.

When we are exploring Internet sites, quite a lot of international research that proves the function of chlorophyll. Prominent function of chlorophyll is an antioxidant and clean intestinal system (digestive tract food from the abdominal cavity to drain or the anus). Chlorophyll also serves to neutralize bad breath, hyper blood circulation, to a natural brain tranquilizer.

Dr. Leenawaty Limantara, scientists who study research on chlorophyll, said the chlorophyll molecule has a structure similar to hemoglobin, the red pigment in human blood. Therefore, chlorophyll a vital nutrient for the human body and is a molecule that can be accepted by the body naturally so that the potential increase endurance.

The ability of chlorophyll in strengthening the immune system is also caused by the supply of antitumor and antikuman to inhibit the growth of bacteria, fungi, and wound infection in the gastrointestinal tract.

The use of oral
Actually, nature has provided the sources of chlorophyll a very reliable and can be consumed easily. The trick is to eat green vegetables on a regular basis. According Leenawaty, katuk an Indonesian native plants rich in chlorophyll.

However, the process of cooking and processing of vegetables that are not appropriate can also reduce nutrients contained in food. "Impaired function of the gastrointestinal tract can also make the absorption of food is not good. The sign can be seen from the remnants of food in the stool," said dr.Roy Indrasoemantri, product consultant PT.Synergy Worldwide Indonesia.

Technological developments have helped the creation of chlorophyll in the form of supplements in the form of capsules or chlorophyll. In Indonesia, enough liquid chlorophyll products sold in the market. According to Roy, every month of liquid chlorophyll products are marketed to thousands of bottles sold.

The nature of chlorophyll is not soluble in water requires special techniques for water-soluble chlorophyll to facilitate its distribution in the body. Therefore, only certain manufacturers are able to produce supleme liquid chlorophyll.

According to Roy, chlorophyll a good supplement products can mix with water without having to be shaken. If found instructions "shake it first" on a package of liquid chlorophyll, can be sure it is not pure chlorophyll supplements or are still mixed with other compounds.

"Beware of products that use fat solvent compounds. If consumed in the long run, long may accumulate in the body and interfere with liver function," said Roy.

Pure chlorophyll supplements also do not have the taste and aroma. It also does not cause a sense of bitterness on the tongue. To test the purity of chlorophyll supplements can be done by letting the product in the glass for a few moments. If the product is precipitate, that is not a pure product and if allowed to stand for several hours to be bubbly and fluffy, then the product is very dangerous.

Because of its nature as a supplement, then the main function of chlorophyll is the product for the prevention of disease. "In Indonesia, natural products such as these are often used as an alternative product for the treatment of disease, although its function to prevent the disease," said Roy.

For people who suffer pain, according to Roy products of chlorophyll may be consumed along with medical drugs. "Function as a supplement," he said. Although no promises of healing, but observed that if these products are consumed regularly can improve your fitness and progress. "For example, if before the road a few steps already felt tight, now it's chest could be better," he said.

Community nutritionist from IPB, Eddy Setyo Mudjajanto, saying basically chlorophyll supplement is safe for consumption. "If the product is consumed is pure chlorophyll, there is almost no side effects. If there is an excess dose was probably only 1-2 tablespoons," she said. Yet he suggested that every product supplement taken in accordance with the recommended dosage listed on the packaging.

Fran Biley's video: Students on nursing theory

I came across this great video created by Francis Biley Bournemouth University through the Martha Rogers list:

Quite some time ago I wondered about having dummy - animated heads to carry out a dialogue. It is great to see how e-media forms and tools have developed now.

I have my own thoughts and ideas on nursing, perhaps over time I am drafting them in the bibliography and here on W2tQ?

Additional links:

Nursing theory resources SCIENCES links

Virtual Reality in Nursing: A dialogue from 1991

Nursing Telemachus and Computers: A dialogue from 1995

Drupal musings 18: healthcare group, DrupalCamp and #183

It's a fair trip to Edinburgh from NW England just for one day on the 30th October, but DrupalCamp looks like it will be worth it. I've just booked a room for the Friday night and will set out straight from work.

There's been a Drupal healthcare group for quite a while, now there's also a list of health sites using Drupal:

http://groups.drupal.org/healthcare-sites

One day, one day....!

I'm not sure if this post is contrived: a means of getting to post #183. That was the total for 2009 and here we are already.

If one day, one day is going to happen then this blog is going to slow down soon. No suspended animation though. There will be a pulse.

The involvement of a few link partners on W2tQ is very helpful. It seems the archives are of interest. This not only supports the IT side - future hosting ... but attending events (DrupalCamp travel, B&B) and possibly conferences...

As a full-time nurse I sometimes have to rely on holidays to attend events that really float my boat (or fly my plane). Drupalcons are a case in point. It's not easy trying to simultaneously span nursing, education and informatics, but it really is fascinating [and it makes me :-) ]. Take the following conference:

Celebrating the Past and Embracing the Future:

Evolution and Innovation in Problem-based Learning

March 30th and 31st 2011 in Grange-Over-Sands, Cumbria, UK

I raise this because problem-based learning is a real gift for the health career model, but this gift runs to £235 (which of course for two days training / education is very reasonable - there is a free half-day workshop too). 
So, One day, one day - but meanwhile enjoying the journey and the many bridges. ...

Care origin(s) and open access #OAW2010

The most striking and ubiquitous presence in the health career model is its basic diagrammatic form. The image at left provides some mathematical additions and there at the center is the origin.

In this respect the model (literally) draws our attention to the identification of the care problems, constraints, strengths, solutions that affect the individual with whom we are engaged. We are immediately aware that there is inevitably more than one aspect to consider.

To save repetition I am only going to refer to problems. So, the model's form highlights that there is no single origin of problems, but many. At some time a problem, for example physical, may become the priority. Then the SCIENCES domain is critical. Deprivation of liberty concerns may split the priority creating tension across the INTER-intraPERSONAL and POLITICAL domains.

As priorities are dealt with there needs to be a return to the -

origin.

The question is asked: in which care domains do the problems lie? We call this re-assessment and evaluation.

In Open Access Week the health care model is also 'open access'. Not just in terms of being a free, accessible resource available to all, but being discipline agnostic, neutral and applicable across cultures and ethnic groups. The model is also open in terms of mindset. The users of h2cm provide that and as they do open* and origin-al care unique to the individual has a chance to follow.

*Open care? Mmm...


Image source: origin - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coordinate_with_Origin.svg

Drupal musings 17: PHPNW 2010, HTML5, DrupalCamp Edinburgh

PHPNW 2010 on the w/e 9th - 10th October was well worth attending. Sessions for me after the keynote included:

Let your toolchain set you free

Debugging – Rules and Tools

The curious case of php|architect

Designing HTTP URLs and REST Interfaces

All the sessions where very informative, but the latter proved the most interesting. I noticed REST interfaces kept coming up at the Ruby conferences in '08 and '09 and also in reading about Ajax. So David Zuelke's session was very interesting both with his critique of how REST is applied (twitter) and his humour. I look f/w to the videos appearing.

A dinner date with friends meant I had to leave early and so I missed the prize draw. The past week started with a smile when Emma Parker, PHPNW10 Events Team emailed to say I'd won a book in the prize draw. Last Thursday the book arrived:

Pro HTML5 Programming

Magic! Thanks to the conference team and Apress.


I have just learned about DrupalCamp Edinburgh on the 30th and have registered.

The Empowered Patient Conference

HIFA2015 brought this conference to my attention rather late, but it is nonetheless well worth posting. Indirectly for the health career model, which can facilitate patient and carer education and empowerment. In addition to demonstrating the global potential of h2cm this announcement also demonstrates how small the world is becoming. I had the pleasure of hearing Mark Duman present in Manchester at a local BCS medical informatics meeting in the spring. I've since maintained a link to the Patient Information Forum here on W2tQ and Links III - 'Patients, Carers & Self-Care'.

If you are organising a conference or event for 2011 ... please let me know. I may be able to assist with free publicity on the care domain pages interpersonal, sciences, political or sociology - especially if your themes are similar: nursing, informatics, education, global health, self-care. ...

HELP is pleased to organize The Empowered Patient Conference in Mumbai on 20 October. The website is at http://www.patientpower.in/

Traditionally, Indian patients were passive and were quite happy to leave all medical decisions to the doctor. However, times have changed, and internet positive patients are hungry for information and want to work in partnership with their doctor. This is a huge challenge - and a great opportunity as well. We feel patients are the largest untapped health care resource and that Information Therapy is Powerful Medicine!

In partnership with the Patient Information Forum, UK, HELP is organizing The Empowered Patient Conference. Our keynote speaker will be Mr Mark Duman, President of PiF:
http://www.pifonline.org.uk/home/

Information Therapy can help patients (and health insurance companies!) save money on medical care by:

1. Promoting SelfCare and helping them to do as much for themselves as they can.
2. Helping them with Evidence-Based Guidelines, so that they can ask for the right medical treatment that they need - no more and no less.
3. Helping them with Veto Power, so they can say No to medical care they don’t need, thus preventing overtesting and unnecessary surgery.

Information Therapy is good for doctors and hospitals as well, as patients who are well-informed have realistic expectations of their treatment. They are much more likely to have a good medical outcome and much less likely to sue.

How can we all work together - doctors, patients, hospitals, health insurance companies and IT companies, to ensure that patients are at the heart of everything we do in healthcare?

Dr Aniruddha Malpani, MD
Medical Director
HELP - Health Education Library for People
Excelsior Business Center,
National Insurance Building,
Ground Floor, Near Excelsior Cinema,
206, Dr.D.N Road, Mumbai 400001

Helping patients to talk to doctors! Information Therapy is the Best Prescription!
Read over 20 health books free at www.helpforhealth.org
Read my blog about improving the doctor-patient
Relationship at http://doctorandpatient.blogspot.com/
Join India’s first health wiki at www.myhealthpedia.in

self disclosure: personal distractions & Andrew Marr

Although I've installed, re-installed ... been reading, attended 3 Drupalcons and the monthly NW Drupal Users group in Manchester - Drupal remains a scary character. I am in for the long haul though and the new PC is a great asset. All I need now is a place of my own. It's complicated. There was a question raised on the psychiatric nursing email list about the "Do I?" - "Don't I?" of self disclosure.

As for the "Do I?" - "Don't I?" Drupal - since summer 2008 separation and divorce has been the source of distraction. It still is, with a 'final' hearing to follow in the new year about the 'marital' home. I need the equity: STAT! This protracted delay in resolving matters is not my fault (although there is a counter argument that says the delay spans 24 years³). Such disclosure here may grate with some readers; if so well actually to date I've been re-strained to the point of chronic constipation. Whether a citizen journalist or not I'm pleased to remain an exception to Mr Marr's tirade about bloggers this past week.

As per the first post of 2010 it is now 12 months since I had my first cataract op c/o surgeons Messrs Heaven and in November 2009 Mr Mars at Wigan Infirmary. I'm sending a thank you card now. Now, because the past 12 months have been visually amazing! As each season has come along new sights (no pun intended) and old vistas refreshed have been a great revelation. Things are coming together. Drupal musings 17 to follow soon ...

³The main disclosure here is not about 'self' but about the three amazing individuals that union brought into the world. This 'self' would not want to change that for anything in the world.

New to nursing? after Jules (just scratchin the skin)

If you are new to nursing (social care, learning disability, forensic nursing... ) we have some amazing guests on this weeks show, appearing especially for you, because of you: because you care - on four stages ....
[with apologies: Jules Holland, BBC 2]

Interpersonal : Sciences

Sociology : Political

Self Awareness orientation communication rapport, empathy anxiety values, beliefs mood, risk knowledge & skills aptitude and attitude	anatomy and physiology (The) Make the Beds  TPR [BP] hygiene birth...........................................death drugs journals, books nutrition assess, plan, actions, evaluate tech & equipment
community family relationships culture traditional medicine social networks public involvement	HUMAN RIGHTS Consent, Choice, Capacity health economics Law DoH, NLM, WHO health social care services professionalism policy

Vomiting Causes,Cures,Effects,Home Remedies and treatment

Vomiting can be an unpleasant and exhausting experience, caused by a number of conditions. The term 'vomiting' refers to the forceful ejection of inside of stomach through the mouth. Popularly known as 'being sick' or throwing up’, vomiting is a reflex action caused by stimulation of vomiting center in the brain stem. Most vomiting is due to diarrhea, cholera or food poisoning. Vomiting can sometimes be caused by very serious diseases like diabetes.

Vomiting Symptoms Causes:-
(1) Stomach irritation: Irritation of the lining of stomach is the commonest cause of vomiting.

A multitude of reasons may cause this:
Appendicitis
Gastritis
Peritonitis
Gastroenteritis
Ulcers (Gastric and Duodenal)
Tonsillitis (especially in young children)
Excessive drinking
Excessive intake of contaminated food

(2) Head injury

(3) Deliberate vomiting (by putting finger in the mouth)

(4) Motion sickness

(5) Certain diseases like meningitis, fever, whopping cough, jaundice

(6) Pregnancy (Morning sickness)

Vomiting Treatment Cures Prevention:-
Avoid solid foods as they will make you sicker and induce further vomiting.

Work back to normal diet over 3 to 4 days.

Suck ice cubes if you find it impossible to keep fluids down.

A teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda diluted in a teacup of water or milk can also be useful.

Take plenty of bland fluids - water, diluted milk or squashes but no aerated or alcoholic drinks

As the patient feels better, he can shift to semi solid diets like custards, soups, daliya etc.

Ginger tea can help with the nausea associated with vomiting and honey can soothe your throat.

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Blog Action Day 2010 - Water: conceptual drops in the health career model

Today is Blog Action Day and the theme is water.

Below I have added a selection of water related links across the domains of the health career model:

Interpersonal : Sciences

Sociology : Political

Water use - You? Water Encyclopedia water in Philosophy National Geographic the Water project	Properties of water The water cycle Water, sanitation & health: WHO  Water on the Sun SI water Homeostasis
Water mythology WaterWired Water development photos Costing the Earth BBC: Cleaning Up the Ganges	Waternet: Geopolitics of water scarcity in the Middle East World Water Day Water, health and economics: WHO Water.org UNESCO

The above links:
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/beinggreen/117266.aspx
http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/
http://www.science-parliament.eu/forums/2010-water-science-politics/1151/water-in-philosophy
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/04/water-is-life/kingsolver-text
http://thewaterproject.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Properties_of_water
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Water/
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/news/sunwater.htmlhttp://www.simetric.co.uk/si_water.htm
http://www.nursingtimes.net/nursing-practice-clinical-research/homeostasis-part-4-fluid-balance/203260.article
http://www.lenntech.com/water-mythology.htm
http://aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/
http://www.photovault.com/Link/Food/Water/WellsDevelopment/FWWVolume01.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sg2my
http://www.waternet.be/
http://www.worldwaterday.org/
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/economic/
http://water.org/
http://www.unesco.org/water/wwap/

Cycling for better Health

Cycling is very enjoyable activity and beneficial for health and fitness,

Cycling Health Benefits:-

(1) First of all, Cycling is what's known as 'aerobic' exercise, improves the consumption of oxygen in the body. Increase heart rate and get us to breath heavily but not out of breath.

(2) This aerobic activity can burn up to 300 calories per 30 minutes. It’s really very effective in reducing depression and stress, boost confidence and leave with a high self esteem.

(3) Increase blood circulation and reduce the risk of high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes and heart diseases.

(4) Cycling on a daily basis will help minimize all of these heath issues whilst lengthening your lifespan at the same time. The physical benefits of cycling and the improvement to your health far out way the reasons for not doing so on a daily basis and should be looked at seriously to maintain a healthy life.

Cycling Risk Factors:-

But also we have to prepare our self to prevent serious injury from cycling; to reduce the risk of serious injury is to use helmets.

Cyclist training is also extremely important, and acquiring knowledge on how to maintain your cycle is equally as important as learning how to ride in heavy traffic conditions. Defective breaks and low tyre pressure can quite often lead to accidents, and it is important that your cycle is in a road-worthy condition at all times.

"Training helps you to be confident in traffic and adopt a road position where you can be seen, communicate clearly with other road users and be aware of traffic movements”

ERCIM News No. 83 Special Theme: "Cloud Computing"

Dear ERCIM News Reader,

ERCIM News No. 83 has just been published at http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/

Special Theme:
"Cloud Computing"
- coordinated by: Frédéric Desprez, Ottmar Krämer-Fuhrmann and Ramin Yahyapour
- featuring the keynote "Cloud Computing: The Next Big Thing?" by Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz, Keith Jeffery, Maria Tsakali and Lutz Schubert.

Next issue: January 2011 - Special Theme: "Intelligent and Cognitive Systems"

Thank you for your interest in ERCIM News.
Feel free to forward this message to others who might be interested.

Best regards,
Peter Kunz
ERCIM News central editor
Follow us on http://twitter.com/ercim_news

Of note in ERCIM #83 :

An Infrastructure for Clinical Trials for Cancer – ACGT Project Successfully Terminated; by Jessica Michel Assoumou and Manolis Tsiknakis
http://eu-acgt.org/

Mastering Data-Intensive Collaboration and Decision Making through a Cloud Infrastructure; by Nikos Karacapilidis, Stefan Rüping and Isabel Drost
http://dicode-project.eu/

Finally, the first issue of 2011 #84 sounds a great prospect!

Balanced Care: Safe Landings and Recovery

In health and social care patient, family and the health care team are united in what is constantly described as a journey. Sometimes there are several, care pathways into territories unknown.

Unknown?

Well yes, if care delivery is personalised (who are we to assume ...?); and yes again even if the patient - the individual concerned is an 'expert' in their condition.

Apart from the metaphysics of life's journey our physical environment can present dangers and yet fewer and fewer corners are truly  unknown. We leave it to astronauts (and oceanographers) to adventure on our behalf. Prior to the Apollo missions it was essential to confirm the nature, solidity of the lunar surface. Would a spacecraft sink and possibly tilt to the extent that return to lunar orbit and Home was impossible?

The Apollo Lunar Module's four legs provided support for a safe landing and take off. A base in every sense.

In health and social care the health career model can provide a base and re-assurance too. Each of the four care domains allied with knowledge and skills - holistic competence - can bring about a successful mission: however the crew and 'success' are defined.

Image source and original text below from:
http://www.robertaonthearts.com/id763.html
Cartier Replica of a Lunar Module
Three individual 18-karat-gold models of the American lunar module were made in 1969 by the jeweler Cartier of Paris on behalf of the French newspaper Le Figaro and presented to the three Apollo 11 astronauts during their post-flight tour in Paris. This model was presented to astronaut Michael Collins.
Image ©Nick Welsh/Cartier Collection 2006

Naivety [I] ever unfolding : ever present - SCIENCES

naivety [naɪˈiːvtɪ], naiveté, naïveté [ˌnɑːiːvˈteɪ]n pl -ties, -tés

1. the state or quality of being naive; ingenuousness; simplicity

2. a naive act or statement

My source:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/naivety

There are times when we are all naive. It can be so embarrassing! When you realise, or more severely are made aware by others the abrupt learning is suddenly resolved. Within the bounds of the health career model, naivety can be found and is expressed in so many ways.

Hodges' model may appear naive in its simplicity, but behind that simplicity there are several assumptions. When you act as scribe, reader or doer you exercise the model's structure. You potentially demonstrate several levels of literacy.

If the health career model can represent most 'everything', then naivety should be no problem. So, if we visit each of the care domains in turn what can we find?

SCIENCES

I came across a post: 'We are all naive scientists' on The Financial Philosopher blog which includes this quote:

"It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of man and his social surroundings." ~ Paul Feyerabend

Regularly, I ask myself if I am naive in this particular domain. Am I right to assume that there are questions in nursing that can be answered (or at least reflected upon) using Hodges' model? Furthermore, can this use, this application be demonstrated in a scientific (evidenced) way?

Does experience of programming in BBC Basic as an enthusiast really help equip me now to get to grips with PHP, using Drupal and even Ruby?

Is information (and informatics) really the all encompassing Swiss army knife of a concept I take it to be?

The most extreme naivety here is not mine, however; it is as Feyerabend suggests the one that is in diagonal opposition. It is the scientific naivety of the masses in the social domain. Is this ignorance? In some cases, yes. But the tabloid (gutter) press shouts aloud when science gets it wrong; or, more accurately industrial porcesses based on science totally mess up.

The masses are not divorced from science. True, there was (still is?) a promised intimate relationship borne of equality and egalitarian ideals (education), but this naivety matures in real (social) time also known as life-chances. Its cost is not just red-faced, but illiteracy and exclusion at a time when literacy, inclusion and engagement are paramount.

FROM: A community mental health context TO: Acute EMR/EHR and other ...

or: Will 21st Century health and social care informatics truly begin on Sunday 10 10 10 ?

I've been a nurse AND info tech / informatics enthusiast since 1981. As an advocate of info-tech as a means to improve the quality, effectiveness and safety of health care - I must confess; I feel I have let down those colleagues purely there to 'nurse'. (Don't worry, I am also a realist and post-therapy!).

After 20+ plus years the nearest we (the team and I) got to a system that answered our questions was a small PICK database and a later MS Access database. These focused on referrals and data capture - demographics, problems, interventions (WHO and what) and outcomes. Although the number of data items was not great, no more than 30 the insights we could glean from queries was surprising. People versed with databases, datasets and research readily appreciate how even small datasets, carefully thought out and planned, can answer a diverse range of questions (and generate countless new ones too!).

I noticed in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s the development of customer management software and recognised that clinicians have a need: caseload management.

Even now the requirement of 'X' visits per day, the number of information systems and lack of integration (health - social care) mean that in many instances there is still no readily accessible caseload manager for the individual practitioner. This is an outcome and amid all the talk around 'engagement' (with a 'E').

Perversely, ironically, paradoxically (take your pick) at a time when Lean is (presented and) needed, there are scarce resources to do the things that should now be embedded (routinised) into the life history of the professional. This includes what the professionals do WITH the patients, carers, data, information ...

I speak to student nurses (and other disciplines) regularly as a nurse mentor and sign-off mentor. Their exposure to health care informatics to me is minimal, adhoc, and when it has happened it has signally failed to strike a cord. A very small (and so non-significant*?) sample admittedly.

Informatics remains an academic 'must do'.

Perhaps 21st century informatics only begins on Sunday -

101010

Whatever:
as it stands informatics is a management pursuit.

Slippage is a fact of project management, but words present their own challenge when target driven 'secondary' uses become 'primary'.

*surely not.

[A version of this post first appeared on the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society HIMSS group on LinkedIn.]

Anti Aging Tips and facts-Wrinkles Symptoms-Causes-Treatment

We all have to believe fact of life is growing old. With old age we lose some of our physiological functions that hasten death. This loss occurs primarily within the cells in our bones, brain, heart and kidney. We have to aware from signs of aging and the correct way on how to slow them. Creases, Lines on the skin especially with old age at face, called Wrinkles. It’s one of the most Natural Part of Aging. Most of Young aged people’s skin also affected by this condition, if they are smoker or skin damaged by sun.

Ultraviolet rays in atmosphere from sunlight, can damage collagen and elastin, which are very helpful our skin smoothness. Collagen is a protein that makes up a large part of your skin. The toxins in cigarette smoke stop your skin from producing as much new collagen. So we can say that smoking also causes wrinkles. As you get older, your skin gets thinner, more fragile and less stretchy, so it tends to wrinkle and crease. Some people wrinkle more than others. This can happen for different reasons.

Wrinkles Symptoms:-
(1) Deep formed lines.
(2) Crinkling crosshatch marks.
(3) Skin that is wrinkled may also have a tough, leathery appearance if the person has had a lot of exposure to the sun.

Wrinkles Causes:-
Wrinkles are also one of the major causes of skin aging.
Rapid weight loss can also cause wrinkles by reducing the volume of fat cells that cushion the face.
Other environmental factors, including cigarette smoke and pollution, particularly ozone, may hasten ageing by producing oxygen-free radicals. These are particles formed by many of the body's normal chemical processes in excessive amounts, can damage cell membranes and interact with genetic material, possibly contributing to the development of wrinkles and cancer.

Wrinkles Treatment:-
One of most common treatment and we can say Wrinkles Care Tips is,
To minimize skin wrinkling, stay out of the sun as much as possible. When you are outside, wear shielding clothing and use sunscreen. If you smoke, stop smoking.
Other effective options of wrinkles are, Chemical peels or laser resurfacing.
Botulinum toxin (Botox) may be used to correct some of the wrinkles associated with overactive facial muscles.
Tretinoin (Retin-A) or creams containing alpha-hydroxy acids may be recommended.

Blushing Definition- Cures and Treatments

What is blushing?
Blushing is a natural, involuntary reaction of the body in situations of anxiety or embarrassment, and it's often accompanied by sweating, mild to severe discomfort, and/or an inability to keep eye contact. Everyone blushes from time to time, but for some people it occurs too often, and becomes a key source of discomfort.
Blushing Facial Treatments Therapy:-

Surgical facial blushing Treatments; Drug Treatments; Psychological Treatment

Surgical facial blushing Treatments:-
ETS was one of the expected treatments for blushing, was responsible for diminished facial blushing with patients who applied it for palmar hyperhidrosis treatments. It isn't such a useful alternative for this particular condition. The compensatory sweat levels it acquires and the lot of fallouts are strong points against using ETS for facial blushing treatments.

Drug treatments:-
Robinol, Ditropan and Propanthelin together with a series of anticholinergic drugs are good choices for facial redness and excessive blushing. This offer more conservative approach. It can provide patients with good results. Some choose to combine the blushing treatment with drugs like Xanax. Other treatment methods may include bio feedback, although this has not been proven to be very effective. Anxiety medications, Beta-blockers and Clonidine are also used in facial blushing treatments.

Psychological Treatment:-
Continual facial blushing is such a painful cycle as you can blush just at the thought of the possibility and when you do blush you will bluish even more as soon as you know others notice it. It has been proven over and over that problem blushing is a mental issue; because it is triggered internally, most if not all external treatments don't work in the long term and simply delay and hide the real cause

Lean machine(s): chasing the contexts

There is a perennial game in health and social care called assessment and evaluation: the game could also be called 'CTC' - 'chasing the context'.

Relativity lies not only in the realm of physics and philosophy.

When I say relativity I am referring of course to the influence and impact of a health and social care situation from the constantly changing perspective of each of several different players:

• the patient;
• carer;
• nurse;
• doctor;
• manager;
• medical ward;
• community mental health team;
• commissioner.

Usually, the context collapses to a specific problem (a situation) and the players set to solve a care problem presented by an individual -

• a client, resident or patient;

and their -

• relatives;
• residential care home manager;
• residential care home staff nurse and team;
• community mental health nurse;
• medical personnel.

Context directs, dictates, and shapes health and social care theory, practice, management and policy.

This relativism can also subvert, sublime, confuse and stymie plans, common sense notions, creativity, innovation and management directives.

Like a tide this relativity picks us up and re-figures, re-paints and shifts the location of everything - including measures and how they are used.

Context is all! - so the saying goes. But context never wholly reveals itself. For that is another situation, another context, another side, another coin.

For context there are key defining parameters (location, diagnoses, risk, need, physical, mental, holistic ...) all of these are couched or spring from time.

So, the game calls for us and the tide teases us to measure and evaluate. This coast is never clear, but how long is it now? Where are the pathways now? Where will they be again?

As we travel (and travail) to and from this context to that - thresholds are also altered: up and down and always around; the way of life and ..... .

Image source:
http://www.esd112.org/edtech/no_limit/rs_archive.cfm

DATUM for Health: Research data management training for health studies

We are delighted to announce this new project being conducted at Northumbria University:

'DATUM for health’ is a collaborative project which seeks to promote research data management skills of postgraduate research students in the health studies discipline through a specially-developed training programme which focuses on qualitative, unstructured research data.

It is being led by the School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences at Northumbria University in partnership with colleagues from the School of Health, Community and Education Studies and The Graduate School. External partners are the Digital Curation Centre (http://www.dcc.ac.uk) and the Digital Preservation Coalition (http://www.dpconline.org
Starting on 1^st October it will run to 31^st July 2011.

The project is funded by JISC under their Managing Research Data (JISCMRD) Programme. ‘Datum for Health’ is one of 5 projects under the Research data management training materials strand of the Programme.

DATUM for Health aims to:

• design and pilot a training programme on research data management for postgraduate research students in health studies as an integral part of a doctoral training programme;
• evaluate the usefulness and effectiveness of the training with participants and other research stakeholders;
• provide other Higher Education Institutions with a model for research data management skills training;
• make recommendations for sustainable research data management training and associated infrastructure requirements.

The Project Lead is Professor Julie McLeod, School of Computing, Engineering & Information Sciences (CEIS) at Northumbria University. Other Project Team Members at the University are:
Professor Charlotte Clarke from the School of Health, Community and Education Studies;
Professor John Dean, from The Graduate School, and Sue Childs and Elizabeth Lomas from CEIS. The external Team members are Kevin Ashley, Director of the Digital Curation Centre and William Kilbride, Executive Director of the Digital Preservation Coalition.

A Project website has been set up at http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/datum

As outputs are produced they will be made freely here under a Creative Commons License. The Project News page has an RSS feed if you want to track our activities.

For further information contact me or use our Project email eb.datum at northumbria.ac.uk

Julie McLeod (Prof.)
Programme Leader MSc Records Management (Distance Learning)
School of Computing, Engineering & Information Sciences
Northumbria University
Room 2.45 Pandon Building Camden Street
Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1XE
Julie.mcleod at northumbria.ac.uk
http://www.acerm.blogspot.com/
Twitter: Northumbria_RM

My source:
RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK at JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Related post:
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2010/09/keeping-research-data-safe-krds-project.html 

Mother Pelican ~ Vol. 6, No. 10, October 2010

FYI ... the pelican journal of sustainable development has been renamed
*Mother Pelican* in honor of the *Human Being* she represents.

The October 2010 issue has been posted:
http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n10page1.html

Going Forward After the UN MDG Review Summit

1. Current Status of the Millennium Development Goals
2. Review of the "Keeping the Promise" Declaration
3. Timidity of National Governments and Global Citizens
4. Ms. Michelle Bachelet and the UN Women Entity
5. Sustainable Human Development and the MDGs
6. Links to Key UN and MDG Documents and Resources
7. Links to News and Reports about the MDG Summit
8. Current Research on Sustainable Human Development
9. A Meditation on Sustainable Human Development

Supplements:

Supplement 1: Advances in Sustainable Development
Supplement 2: Directory of Sustainable Development Resources
Supplement 3: Sustainable Development Simulation (SDSIM)

Articles:

Socioeconomic Democracy: A Psycho-Politico-Socio-Economic System, by Robley George.

Composition and Trends of Homestead Agroforestry in Bangladesh, by Sourovi Zaman et al.

Will Working Mothers' Brains Explode? The Popular New Genre of Neurosexism, by Cordelia Fine.

A Paradise Built in Hell: Communities that Rise to the Challenge of Disaster, by Rebecca Solnit.

We Need Millennium Development RIGHTS, Not Just Goals, by Phyllis Bennis.

Feedback is cordially invited!

Sincerely,
Luis

Luis T. Gutierrez, Ph.D.
The Pelican Web
Editor, Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Development
http://pelicanweb.org
A monthly, CC license, free subscription, open access e-journal

My source:
e-Network of Academia in Social Sciences (e-NASS)

Being a Personal Dentist

We do not need to always delegate all the problems of the teeth and mouth to the dentist. Due to some problems, it turns out there are easy ways we can do yourself to overcome them. Want to know?

1. Sensitive teeth.
Cause: The opening of the root tissue and dentin (the layer below the email), plus usually due to lower gums or tooth enamel thinning.

Overcome with: do not brush our teeth too hard, because this habit can cause a decrease in the gums, said Sherri Worth, DDS, cosmetic dentist. Use a special toothpaste sensitive teeth, which contains Potassium Citrate which serves to reduce sensitivity and sense of pain in the tooth.

2. Tongue on fire.
Cause: eat or drink is too hot.

Overcome by: rinse our mouths with a solution of 1 cup of warm water mixed with 1 teaspoon of salt. "This will give soothing effect," added Dr. Worth. Salt can draw infection to the tissue surface, which will then be pruned by our bodies. Salt will also neutralize the acidic conditions of the mouth, so that bacteria do not breed.

3. Sore jaw.
Cause: most likely due to TMJ or temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD), and usually causes a headache that followed from the front of the ear pain until our jaws. Incorrect jaw position also lead to teeth grinding at night.

Overcome with: "Because our muscles get comfortable, so we must also constantly moving the jaw," suggested Pia Lieb, DDS, cosmetic dentist in New York City. Try to sleep on your back or side with a pillow buffer, compared to sleeping on your stomach.

4. Sprue.
Causes: many can trigger canker sores in the mouth. Starting from a lack of nutritional intake, stress, allergies to foods that are too spicy can cause irritation.

Overcome by: applying vegetable oil on cotton and paste it on the canker sores 3-4 times a day. "Oil will help cover the wound and protect it from irritation," says Mary Ellen Camire, Ph.D., professor of nutrition at the University of Maine Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition.

Overcome Sore gums with Salt Water Gargle

Healthy gums pink and hard. If the gums look soft, inflamed, bleed easily and the color is dark red, it is probable that there has been inflammation (gingivitis).

Gingivitis occurred since the formation of plaque, which is a colorless layer of bacteria and sticky on the teeth. That's why the first step to cope with gingivitis is to remove plaque. Program long-term oral hygiene also needs to be done to cure and prevent gingivitis.

There are natural ways to treat pain in the inflamed gums, is by gargling salt water. "When you gargle with salt water, the swollen area so hypertonic that get together in the plaque bacteria that will come out," said Prof.drg.Melanie Djamil, from the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Trisakti Jakarta.

However, gargle with salt water is a temporary solution. "If the source of problems is plaque and tartar gangivitis, it still must be cleaned first so the pain does not come anymore," he said.

6 Ways to Make Pinang As Drug

In everyday life, other than for chewing, areca nut is also used by the community as a traditional medicine. Betel nut has several properties that can cure some diseases. This fruit, among others, are useful anthelmintica shed worms and adstringensia to shrink mucous membranes.

The nature of this worm has long shed our ancestors used to cure intestinal worms in rural areas. In addition, the nut also stimulates the (stimulant), stop the bleeding (haermostatica), and antisifilis.

Here are some benefits of nut crops and how to use it:

1. Increasing arousal
Take one betel nuts are not yet hardened. Slice-slice and then chew and eat. Another way: take one betel nuts and then destroy and boiled in two cups of water. Wait until it becomes a glass. These two properties are the same way, will increase the passion.

2. Drug worms
Prepare a quarter piece of betel nuts, half a finger rhizome of ginger, turmeric and half a finger. All the ingredients are boiled and then filtered. Drinking water is filtered to cope with worms.

3. Strengthens teeth and gums
Take a few betel nuts. Sliced into several pieces, then chew the slices.

4. Lumbago
Take a few pieces of betel leaf. Mash leaves and warm. After the collision the dikompreskan in place of the sick.

5. Scabies
Grate one betel nuts. Mix with a quarter teaspoon of whiting and water. Apply on the affected part.

6. Diphtheria
Prepare two betel nuts and then boiled in two cups of water. Wait until the remaining into 1 1 / 2 cup. Add one tablespoon of honey and stir well. Drink slowly to cure diphtheria.

7 Plant It Could Created Deodorant

There are many ways to make your body smell good. In addition to beauty products that can be purchased in stores, we can also use the herbs around us.

Our ancestors also use a variety of traditional crops to cope with body odor or breath. Princesses palace in Java utilizing Kepel fruit freshness or burahol to keep the body from an unpleasant smell. Not only the body, the smell of urine became more fragrant.

Unfortunately, the secret palace is hard to imitate because of aliases burahol Kepel is a rare plant. However, these plants can still be found in the palace-palace on the island of Java.

According to Prof. H Unus Suriawiria, biotechnology and agro-industry expert from the Bandung Institute of Technology, there are several types of plants that have a predicate a natural deodorant. Plants are now still used by people who live in rural areas.

What are these plants?

1. Flowers kecombrang
Latin name of this plant is Nicolaia speciosa and included in the Zingiberaceae family. Flowers kecombrang often used as ornamental flowers, but also delicious eaten in the form pecal, vegetables, or sauce. "Kecombrang can be used in addition to vegetables during cooking," said Professor Unus.

Diligent consuming interest kecombrang proved beneficial to maintain freshness scent. This is because the active substances contained therein, namely sapomin, flavoinoida, and polyphenols. Still said Prof Unus, kecombrang also rich in vitamins and minerals.

2. Betel leaves
Leaves of plants named Latin piper betle is known to contain antiseptic and other active substances that are useful eliminate body odor problem.

How to use:
a. Boil five betel leaves with two glasses of water, wait until the remaining into a glass. Drink while warm once a day until odor disappears.
b. Take a taste of betel leaf and then granulated. Mix with a little whiting. Spread mixture on underarms.

3. Leaves beluntas
Beluntas common as live fences. Latin Pluchea indica plant named this leafy oval, short stalks, and green. The flowers are white, brown. Leaves and flowers contain alkaline substances that act as an antiseptic.

How to use:
a. Beluntas leaves eaten fresh as a salad with rice and side dishes.
b. Take a handful of leaves beluntas then boiled in two cups of water. Wait until the remaining into a glass. Warm drink every morning and evening.

4. Basil
Basil salad is common in the menu that eaten daily. Leaves of plants named Latin Ocimun balisicum is indeed scented fragrance and contains the active substance that serves as an antiseptic. These substances help to eradicate the bacteria that causes body odor. Another benefit basil leaf salad is to increase appetite.

5. Wild Ginger
Latin name is Curcuma xanthorrhiza ginger. Wild Ginger is one plant that is widely known in Indonesia as a living pharmacy. This plant contains saponins, flavoinoida, and essential oils so efficacious to remove acne, refreshing body, and eliminate body odor.

How to use:
Provide a ginger finger. Washed and cut finely. Boil with a glass of water with sour taste. Wait until it becomes half a cup. Wait until cool and then drink the potion.

6. Ginger
Ginger rhizome is known as a warm traditional medicine, so often used to cope with a cold and feeling nausea due to pregnancy and other reasons. Research has shown that ginger contains antiviral, antitumor, and anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and antifungal properties as well. Both these latter that cause ginger can be used to address body odor.

How to use:
Take one finger ginger. Peeled and washed and cut finely. Boil in two cups of water until the remaining one cup. Add brown sugar to taste. Drink while warm.

7. Lemon
This fruit has been studied at Ohio State Biotechnology Center, Ohio, USA. One result, orange juice known to be extremely rich in vitamin C and some minerals than other types.

Traditionally, lime has been appointed as a cough medicine for centuries. In addition to eliminating the fishy odor when washing dishes and cleaning goods originating from brass, citrus fruit juice can also be used to eliminate body odor.

How to use:
Squeeze two limes. Take a little whiting and mix with the lemon juice. Apply on armpits to eliminate body odor.

Less Passionate, Just Eat Pinang

Pinang or jambe is one of completeness in chewing among older people. In addition, the Indonesian people use this plant as a natural remedy to strengthen the gums, teeth, and treat diseases worms.

Later, areca nut known efficacious enhance. In Japan, even the plant is cultivated to be used as raw material for the drug industry. Seeds of fruit crops in Latin called Areca catechu is used as a mixture of whiting that make the mouth and teeth reddish. Betel nut is also an important role in the Sundanese traditional wedding ceremony.

"To show ngeuyeuk seureuh before the wedding. It should always be there because part that can not be separated in marriage, "said Prof H Unus Suriawiria, biotechnology and agro-industry expert from the Bandung Institute of Technology who is also a native of Sunda.

In everyday life, other than for chewing, betel nut used by the community as a traditional medicine to strengthen teeth and gums. You do this by chewing betel nuts slices. According to Prof. Unus, this habit is also applied to rural communities in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Still according to Professor Unus, the efficacy of betel nuts are not only useful for teeth and gums, "In the betel nuts contained substances that are useful as a passion-enhancing drug."

He cited research in Japan and Taiwan that a seed nut has efficacy equivalent to five packs passion-enhancing drug that is made of synthetic compounds. "As an addition to many passionate man who advertised it, you know," he said.

Efficacy of adding this passion is not just nonsense because he said in a nut contained arekolin. These compounds are kholinergik arekolin, which is useful to overcome kholin acetyl compounds which are circulating in the body. Acetyl this kholin when too much can cause a person to feel tired and unwell. Conversely, the nature of areca useful kholinergik make the body healthy, fit, and energetic.

In India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan, betel nuts are a snack treat that quite attractive. "The fruit of nut in these countries were sliced into small pieces and roasted. After it is packed in plastic bags or cans as well as nuts packaged in plastic in Indonesia, "said Professor Unus.

Food and textile industries also begin to look nut. Therefore, areca seed extract in red wine potential as fabric dyes and foods.

"The use of red color that comes from these seeds are now highly recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other health agencies. Therefore, artificial red color are carcinogenic or cause cancer, "he continued.
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Meanwhile, according to Endah Lasmadiwati, herbalist from Park Sringanis Bogor, areca nut has several properties that can cure some diseases. Among these are a useful anthelmintica shed worms and adstringensia to shrink mucous membranes.

The nature of this worm has long shed our ancestors used to cure intestinal worms in rural areas. In addition, the nut also stimulates the (stimulant), stop the bleeding (haermostatica), and antisifilis.

Older People with High Support Needs want more Choice and Control in How they Live their Lives

A new paper has been published today (to coincide with International Older Person's Day) by the National Development team for Inclusion (NDTi) to share findings from a two year project which is aiming to increase the voice, choice and control of older people with high support needs. This includes older people living in care homes and those living at home with a lot of support.

Around 1 million older people live in residential care and sheltered / supported housing. Older people want to have a broad range of options for their care and support, yet there seems to be widespread reluctance to develop and adopt new ways of thinking about and working with older people with high support needs. Traditional forms of service provision still dominate. As our society ages, the way we think about ageing, older people and disability needs to change to reflect with this demographic reality and the expressed wishes and desires of older people themselves.

The paper is from a 2 year project taking place in 3 local authorities in the South East Region of England. Local organisations and communities are working together to ensure options and opportunities are developed which support independent living and increase voice, choice and control for older people with high support needs. (See notes to editors for more information on the project and NDTi). The project is supported by ODI as one of the commitments in the Independent Living Strategy, which states:

Older disabled people must have the same options and opportunities for independent living as anyone else and the Strategy contains a number of commitments which will help achieve this goal.

The paper is :

- 'South East Regional Initiative on Increasing the Voice, 

Choice and Control of Older People with High Support Needs - Emerging Lessons'.

It summarises the findings to date from this project and has been written particularly to inform local authorities and partners about the work, to help them to achieve better outcomes for older people as well as best value in the use of public services and resources.

The paper highlights findings and messages about the priorities for ensuring older people can exercise greater choice and control over their support, including where and how they live. It also identifies some of the issues and barriers which get in the way of this happening.

A summary of the paper has been produced as an 'NDTi Insight' - part of a series of 2 page highlights of the most important learning from pieces of work carried out by NDTi.

This is available at the NDTi website on the following links:

www.ndti.org.uk/publications/ndti-insights/ndti-insights.aspx

Alternatively try: http://snipurl.com/181twm

Helen Bowers, Head of the Older People and Ageing Programme at NDTi and author of the paper said:

"The same level of commitment given to transforming health and social care is now required to transform expectations and experiences of older people with high support needs across all public services, including in residential care. Current debate in this area tends to focus on funding pressures and extending traditional services, rather than how we conceptualise, design and deliver support that promotes citizenship and transfers power from professionals and organisations to individuals, their families and friends."

To find out more, contact:- Helen Bowers, Head of Older People & Ageing Programme, National Development Team for Inclusion Magnolia House, 21a Stour Road, Christchurch, BH23 1PL Tel. 01220 471423 helen.bowers at ndti.org.uk
or
Rob Greig, Chief Executive, National Development Team for Inclusion - Head Office, Montreux House, 18a James Street, West Bath, BA1 2BT Tel: 01225 789135 rob.greig at ndti.org.uk

My source:
The Choice Forum