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Barkey Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#351: Mar 11th 2010 at 6:11:26 AM

Selective Re-Enlistment Bonus is what the acronym means iirc.

Regardless of the actual wording, it's the cash bonus you get for re-enlisting in a critically manned career field as an incentive to keep you in. I just signed my second contract and bagged 20k, same bonus I got the first time.

Mapi "keionbu ni yokusou, nyan?" from Sakurakou Keionbu Since: Aug, 2011
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#352: Mar 11th 2010 at 6:17:17 AM

Yeah I'm EE majoring in CoE Deboss. What exactly is the problem? (though I doubt I'll be able to help because I'm only a college sophomore who's also struggling in school)

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#353: Mar 11th 2010 at 11:56:03 AM

We just got to AC current and I can't remember much of it.

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Mapi "keionbu ni yokusou, nyan?" from Sakurakou Keionbu Since: Aug, 2011
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#354: Mar 12th 2010 at 7:33:27 AM

We're not taking that up yet until next semester; I can't help you there.

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#355: Mar 12th 2010 at 8:36:23 AM

Damn, I forgot how little they actually teach before junior year.

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Miijhal Since: Jul, 2011
#356: Mar 12th 2010 at 9:13:51 PM

I need help thinking of medical tools that are for the nervous system. Preferably something other than things like EEGs, fMRIs, PET scans, etc.

Anyone have any ideas? I need to pick one as a topic for an essay, but I really can't come up with anything that I can actually find a good amount of cite-able sources on.

Or, at least, does anyone know of any particularly interesting medical tools that I should be able to get a good amount of information on? While I'd love to do it on something involving the nervous system, I'm pretty open to ideas at the moment.

edited 12th Mar '10 9:17:04 PM by Miijhal

Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
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#357: Mar 12th 2010 at 9:18:54 PM

The primitive brain-machine interfaces they have now?

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Miijhal Since: Jul, 2011
#358: Mar 12th 2010 at 9:21:27 PM

I'm not quite sure they qualify as 'medical tools'. And that would generally be an extension of EE Gs and other biofeedback devices, which seem quite hard to find good information on (that is, from non-.com or .net sources, untrustworthy .org sources, psuedosciencey books, or tabloids).

edited 12th Mar '10 9:23:39 PM by Miijhal

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#360: Mar 12th 2010 at 9:33:53 PM

Oh, I should probably add the information that I'll be needed to find for whatever I write the essay on:

I need to know it's use, what body system it applies to, and who invented the system. All of this has to come from reliable sources.

Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#361: Mar 12th 2010 at 9:34:44 PM

You could do a fun paper on the "primitive" tools that are still the most effective — the good old reflex hammer, the sets of nylon monofilament line (calibrated for stiffness) used to test pressure sensitivity, things like that...

Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
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#362: Mar 12th 2010 at 9:50:23 PM

And here I was thinking that SQUIDs were made up for Snow Crash. Silly me.

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Miijhal Since: Jul, 2011
#363: Mar 12th 2010 at 10:55:25 PM

SQUI Ds seem to suffer the same problem as PET scans. The acronym makes it hard to search for and it's hard to get the sites I need of it. I'm also not sure it qualifies as a medical tool either.

As for Madrugada's suggestion, those don't particularly interest me. I tend to work best with things that really pique my curiosity.

I'm sorry I keep shooting down these suggestions. I feel bad for doing it...

I'm beginning to think looking for things that involve the brain is the wrong way to go. For a few examples of things that piqued my interest but I couldn't find enough information on, the Stereotaxis and the Holter monitor both caught my interest.

Right now I'm looking up transdermal patches.

Another thing that could really help would be the names of articles from medical journals about EE Gs, fMRIs, or transdermal patches. They're most likely be in one of the research databases I have access too (the reason I'm not using them right now is because they tend to point you to articles that involve the tool, but not ones about the tool).

edited 12th Mar '10 10:58:54 PM by Miijhal

Miijhal Since: Jul, 2011
#364: Mar 13th 2010 at 5:10:27 PM

I think I finally found something. The Gamma Knife. At least three universities have a website for it.

Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
Miijhal Since: Jul, 2011
#366: Mar 13th 2010 at 6:45:58 PM

The device is pretty much equally awesome. It destroys brain tumors by focusing multiple low energy beams of gamma radiation at a specific point so that they converge to eliminate the tumor without causing damage to the rest of the brain.

Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#367: Mar 13th 2010 at 6:51:00 PM

I've heard of those.

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#368: Mar 13th 2010 at 8:11:52 PM

Developed in 1968 by Swedish professors Lars Leksell and Borge Larsson, the gamma knife (sometimes called the "Leksell-Larsson Gamma Knife") is a highly advanced instrument used to treat arteriovenous malformations (AVM), facial pain, benign and malignant brain tumors, and other functional brain disorders. What makes the gamma knife so unique is that it successfully treats these conditions with no incision. Instead, it uses a concentrated radiation dose from Cobalt-60 sources. A total of 201 beams of radiation intersect to form a powerful tool focused on a targeted area of abnormal tissue within the brain. Amazingly, the gamma knife is so precise that it damages and destroys the unhealthy tissue while sparing adjacent normal, healthy tissue.

This sounds like pretty much the coolest thing ever. Good luck, Miijhal.

usedusernames Usedusernames from here Since: Mar, 2010
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#369: Mar 15th 2010 at 8:41:07 AM

How do you balance Fe Br 2 + (NH 4)2 CO 3?

I got Fe CO 3+Br(NH 4)2, but then Br isn't balanced. Maybe Fe CO 3+2Br(NH 4)? I don't know; I'm horrible at these.

Thanks for helping and sorry for not being able to help anyone myself.

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Kinkajou I'm Only Sleeping Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#370: Mar 15th 2010 at 8:49:11 AM

It's like this:

FeBr2 + (NH4)2CO3 -> FeCO3 + 2NH4Br2

edited 15th Mar '10 8:50:04 AM by Kinkajou

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usedusernames Usedusernames from here Since: Mar, 2010
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#371: Mar 15th 2010 at 9:12:06 AM

Thank you.

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Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#372: Mar 15th 2010 at 5:07:51 PM

How did the Tokugawa Shogunate run Japan during their time of power?

edited 15th Mar '10 5:08:05 PM by Wicked223

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Taelor Don't Forget To Smile from The Paths of Spite Since: Jul, 2009
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#373: Mar 15th 2010 at 6:14:24 PM

Mainly by trying to bankrupt and/or generally take power away from the Daimyos at any opportunity they could (e.g. forcing them to provide for two estates, one in Tokyo and one in whichever province they governed; forcing them to make expensive visits to the capital, limiting the number of soldiers they could keep, etc.). This blew up in their face when the bankrupt Samurai all married into merchant families, providing social clout to the previously stigmatized class who proceed to push to open up trade relations with the west. They got there way; this made the Tokugawa looked weak, prompting the pissed of Daimyos to overthrow them and install Megi as their puppet Emperor.

edited 16th Mar '10 10:40:11 PM by Taelor

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Barcode711 Clutch pedal = sidestep from Uddiyana Since: Apr, 2009
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#374: Mar 16th 2010 at 4:42:42 PM

Alright. I get everything up to the "calculate V, I, and R" part. What the hell is going on there?

EDIT: Got R, haven't gotten to I yet, don't know how the hell they determined Eth.

edited 16th Mar '10 5:32:59 PM by Barcode711

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Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
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#375: Mar 18th 2010 at 4:17:16 PM

Dunno.

As for me, I'm supposed to write a "personal narrative", basically a story about something that happened to you that you'd tell if you needed to burn some time. Problem is that nothing interesting enough has happened to me. Any ideas?

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