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)
My FF.net accountI 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
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
And here I was thinking that SQUIDs were made up for Snow Crash. Silly me.
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.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
This sounds like pretty much the coolest thing ever. Good luck, Miijhal.
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
The Philosopher-King ParadoxAlright. 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
Worshipper of Ahura Mazda, as proclaimed by Zoroadster http://twitter.com/bpglobalprDunno.
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?
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.

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.