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🔗 Effect of Acute Antidepressant Administration on Negative Affective Bias in Depressed Patients -- Harmer et al. 166 (10): 1178 -- Am J Psychiatry

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To establish the effects of depression per se, each task was first analyzed for the placebo-treated participants alone by group (depressed patients versus comparison subjects) as the between-subjects factor. For performance in the emotional categorization task and memory, valence (positive or negative) was an additional within-subjects factor. Next, the effects of the drug manipulation were assessed using analysis of variance with drug treatment (reboxetine or placebo) and group (depressed patients or comparison subjects) as between-subjects factors and emotion (positive or negative) as the within-subjects factor, as above. Statistically significant interactions were followed up with simple analyses for group differences.

🔗 Discriminant Analysis

The main purpose of a discriminant function analysis is to predict group membership based on a linear combination of the interval variables. The procedure begins with a set of observations where both group membership and the values of the interval variables are known. The end result of the procedure is a model that allows prediction of group membership when only the interval variables are known.

🔗 الدكتور عصام حجى الباحث بوكالة ناسا يرد على عميد «علوم القاهرة»: حصلت على نفقات دراستى لـ«الدكتوراه» من الحكومة الفرنسية

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ولكنى دخلت فى صراع مع البيروقراطية المصرية العتيدة طيلة السنوات الماضية دون أن أصل إلى شىء، هذه البيروقراطية العفنة التى يتمسك بها هؤلاء السادة، تخرج كالسيف من غمده عندما يريدون التخلص من إنسان، وتختفى تماما عندما يريدون الاحتفاظ بآخر، ورأيت فى النهاية أنه لابد لى أن أقدم استقالتى، وأنه لا فائدة من هذا الصراع مطلقا إلا تضييع الوقت والجهد، وليس كما يقول السيد العميد، إنهم رفضوا الاستقالة حرصا على مستقبلى، وهذا بالطبع هراء لا يمكن أن يصدقه أحد.

🔗 Heaven: A fool's paradise - Faith, Opinion - The Independent

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But even if you set aside the absence of even the tiniest thread of evidence, there is a great conceptual hole at the heart of heaven – one that has gnawed at even its fondest believers. After a while, wouldn't it be excruciatingly dull? When you live in the desert, a spring seems like paradise. But when you have had the spring for a thousand years, won't you be sick of it? Heaven is, in George Orwell's words, an attempt to "produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary". Take away the contrast, and heaven becomes hell.

🔗 Inanities: Conscript

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Wretched is a better description. Wretched and stoic and, as usual, they – the silent poor – were on the frontline of Egypt’s relentless march to a better future: quite literally standing between the old guard and the forces of change, absorbing the blows of a battle not really being fought in their name. How will Mohamed ElBaradei or Hamdeen Sabahy or the workers’ movement reach these people? Once they take off their uniforms and disappear back into their underworld; illiterate, uneducated, too busy surviving on the margins to be angry, too marginal for their anger to count. Who will reach them?

🔗 History of Vegetarianism - Pythagoras (?580-?500 BC) and the Pythagoreans

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Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, nothing forsooth satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life.

🔗 Standing up for Astasia

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While Astasia’s wailings continue to echo in the background throughout the story, the storyline moves through different layers. The village, in many ways, is a scaled maquette of Egyptian society, with all its corruption and injustice. Khairy highlights the misuse of power by the mayor’s bribery and manipulation of law; Hamza sums up the present as “the boom era of corruption.”