Word: pavlov
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...test, which employs a form of learning made famous by Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov, identified 19 of 20 people who had been diagnosed with probable Alzheimer's, said Diana Woodruff-Pak. But it also put seven of 20 healthy subjects in the same category, an error rate that must be reduced, she said...
Woodruff-Pak's test checks for a form of learning called classical conditioning. Essentially, that is learning to associate one stimulus with another. Pavlov showed dogs can learn that a particular sound meant a meal was coming...
...their bones that nothing good will come in Cuba while Castro lives. But all that may soon be history. A week before the Bush-Gorbachev summit, a meeting of far greater significance for Latin America took place in Miami. For the first time in public, Soviet diplomats (including Yuri Pavlov, the Kremlin's leading Latinist) met with Cuban-American leaders. "We are accommodating political reality," says a Soviet official. "Bush will remain hostile toward Castro until the Cuban-American community blesses a change...
...view prevails, an early probe could involve TV Marti, the Florida- based television station that began beaming American programming to Cuba last March. Radio Marti, which has penetrated Cuba for more than five years, has given Castro fits. TV Marti is "driving him even crazier," says Pavlov. As the father of both media moves, Mas sees TV Marti as a potential bargaining chip -- "like the way the U.S. used the placement of Pershing II missiles in Europe as leverage to force the ((intermediate-range nuclear forces)) treaty...
...Pavlov nonetheless made good grades and was admitted to Moscow's prestigious Institute for International Relations. He joined the Soviet foreign service in 1954. "The Gromyko years were drudgery," says Pavlov. "The ministry was unimaginative and dictatorial. With Shevardnadze, it is a constant intellectual debate. He is a pleasure to work...