information technology
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information technology (IT) The use of computers and other electronic means to process and distribute information. Information can be transferred between computers using cables, satellite links, or telephone lines and the cellular network (mobile phones). Networks of connected computers can be used to send
e-mail, to interrogate remote
databases using the
Internet, and to transmit sound, pictures, and moving images. These systems also enable
electronic transfer of funds between banks, as well as
home banking, automated screen trading in stocks and shares, and the buying of goods and services on-line. In doing so, they have played a major role in the
globalization of financial and other markets since the 1980s. The entertainment industry has seen a similar convergence of the broadcast media with computers and telecommunications.
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Paraldehyde, She Said.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Ploughshares; 12/22/1999; ; 448 words
; You're a nurse now and this ward ain't the schoolbook, so you sedate him, paraldehyde, 5 ccs each hip, and don't expose it to air, it'll turn to vinegar, it'll eat plastic and it reeks, use a glass syringe...
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Research from A.G. Rowland and co-researchers provides new data on seizure.
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week; 10/7/2009; 700+ words
; ...the effectiveness and safety of rectal paraldehyde in the management of acute, including...Information was collected on each dose of paraldehyde used for the treatment of a tonic...included on patients treated with rectal paraldehyde for other seizure types or non-convulsive...
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New abuse allegations spotlighted
Newspaper article from: The Press; 3/12/2002; 684 words
; ...for non-clinical purposes. The drug paraldehyde was used on them purely for the pain...badly with the shock treatment, the paraldehyde drug, the sexual abuse by staff and...anaesthetic, and being injected with paraldehyde as punishment. --NZPA Supplied by...
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Govt apology, cash end Lake Alice's 'dark chapter'
Newspaper article from: The Press; 10/8/2001; 700+ words
; ...anaesthetic, or muscle relaxant. The drug paraldehyde was administered as punishment for behaviour...conduct. Former patients had alleged paraldehyde, most often used to treat epilepsy...former patient once said he was given a paraldehyde injection as punishment for kissing...
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Vic: Psychiatrists call for evidence on shock treatment claims
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 10/16/2001; 573 words
; ...allegedly used injections of the drug paraldehyde and electric shocks to modify the behaviour...about the practice and that the drug, paraldehyde, was mostly administered by his nursing...used as punishment and injections of paraldehyde, causing excruciating pain. In 1977...
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Research from Royal Children's Hospital, Emergency Department provides new data on epilepsy in children.(Report)
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week; 10/7/2009; 700+ words
; ...phenobarbitone (10), thiopentone (9), paraldehyde (6) and midazolam infusion (5...thiopentone and intubation (32%), paraldehyde PR (22%) and midazolam infusion...midazolam infusion (13%) and paraldehyde (9%). Initial seizure management...
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Hildegard E. Peplau: Leader, practitioner, academician, scholar and theorist
Magazine article from: Perspectives in Psychiatric Care; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...continuous tubs, full sheet restraints, B & C mixture, paraldehyde, and leather cuffs. The preoccupation of nursing staff...the "section" where it surely would be time to pass the paraldehyde bottle and the tin cup. Recall the sweaty smell of deep...
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Effects of a Free Radical Scavenger N-tert-butyl-alpha-phenylnitrone (PBN) on Short-Term Recovery of Immature Rats after Status Epilepticus
Magazine article from: Physiological Research; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...onset, and 2) PBN-treated animals received the first dose of PBN 1 min after SE onset and the second one 60 min later. Paraldehyde was administered to decrease mortality. Effects of PBN were highly age-dependent. In P25 group, PBN-pretreatment increased...
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Is subtyping of intestinal metaplasia in the upper gastrointestinal tract a worthwhile exercise? An evaluation of current mucin histochemical stains
Magazine article from: British Journal of Biomedical Science; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...pararosamline chloride with a minimum dye content of 88%; Sigma-Aldrich, Poole, Dorset, UK) in 100 mL 60% alcohol, followed by 1 mL concentrated hydrochloric acid and 3 mL paraldehyde (BDH [now VWR International], Leicester, UK).
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Abuse allegation
Newspaper article from: The Press; 12/19/2001; 353 words
; ...shoes, locked in solitary confinement, and given electro-convulsive therapy without anaesthetic and the subduing drug paraldehyde as punishments while in Porirua. She was admitted at the age of 14. --NZPA Supplied by New Zealand Press Association
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paraldehyde
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
paraldehyde , nervous system depressant similar...flammable liquid with a disagreeable odor, paraldehyde produces sleep for up to 12 hr. with...see drug addiction and drug abuse ). Paraldehyde is also used in the manufacture of synthetic...
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Sedative-Hypnotic
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
...of epilepsy. Chloral hydrate was introduced in 1869, and paraldehyde was first used in 1882. The barbiturates were introduced...use until the mid-twentieth century; chloral hydrate and paraldehyde were used well into the late 1970's and are still used...
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acetaldehyde
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...silvering mirrors), in the manufacture of synthetic resins and dyestuffs, and as a preservative. When treated with a small amount of sulfuric acid it forms paraldehyde, (CH 3 CHO) 3 , a trimer, which is used as a hypnotic drug.
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Roozeboom, Hendrik Willem Bakhuis
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...pseudosystems (such as tautomeric compounds) a phase-theoretical treatment — for example, the system acetaldehyde-paraldehyde and the system sulfur-chlorine. Roozeboom ’ s application of the concept of a homogeneous phase to mixed crystals...
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Barbiturates
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
...effects of Opiate drugs such as Opium, Codeine, and Morphine. Other drugs such as bromide salts, Chloral Hydrate, and paraldehyde were useful sedatives, but they all had problems such as toxicity or they left such a bad taste in patients' mouths that...
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