Word: mental
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...administration and my parents argue that if I were conscientious and the least bit intelligent, I would have already passed the QRR. But they don't understand the mental impossibilities of standard deviation. I get immobilized by data fear every time I see a square root sign. It just isn't part of my culture as a member of the mathematically illiterate minority at Harvard...
...mind-body connection, separating myth from reality, intuition from fact, belief from science. Much of this work centers on the actions of neuropeptides, molecular messengers that travel through the body linking the nervous, immune and endocrine systems. In the 1970s neuropharmacologist Candace Pert at the National Institute of Mental Health found that these peptides bind to receptors on a cell, beginning a cascade of biomedical effects, including protein synthesis and cell division. "It's like ringing a doorbell. All kinds of reactions happen inside," says Pert. "The whole metabolism of a cell can be altered." Because their activity fluctuates with...
Organizers of the four-year-old tournament hailed it as an important indicator of a coming "renaissance" in the sport of contract bridge. Mastering the game requires a complex combination of mental abilities, which appeals in particular to analytical minds, said Edward J. Goldfarb, communications director of the American Contract Bridge League...
Make wake-up calls. Sleep is a privilege during the final hours. When writers attempt to "catch a couple of minutes," make sure they get only a couple of minutes, not a second more nor less. Thesis writers possess a mental calendar that must never be violated, lest the thesis suffer. As a Thesis Network member, you must be constantly vigilant...
...reasoning is that if Frank had AIDS, he "could develop dementia, which could affect his mental faculties, and it could affect his voting on issues," Soto says...