A new survey published by Panda Security shows that hacking on occasion is something natural for teen Internet users like downloading music from a website. Panda Security composed a report based on the poll of over 4,000 15 to 18 year-olds. The report revealed that nearly one in five of them have the knowledge to use 'advanced' Internet-distributed hacking tools. Of that group, nearly a third claimed to have used them on at least one occasion.
The survey further says that 2/3 of the group admitted they had actually succeeded in hacking instant messaging or social network accounts of people known to them, with% saying that they published embarrassing photographs or videos of acquaintances on the Internet.
While among the reasons there were mischief-making and competition with their peer group, other substantial motivation for them was that trying out hacking appears to be curiosity, with 86 percent citing that as the point from which their involvement started.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Extreme Series High Output 12038mm fan 180-360cfm
The new YS TECH 12038mm Extreme Series fan has incorporated a stationary rotor and robust motor design to achieve higher rpms levels providing greater cfm/pressure ratings. The fans are available in 12, 24, and 48V version that we can incorpoarted with tachometers, PWM, thermistors, and value added features such as connectors and fan trays.
The fans are available now, contact us directly or through your local rep for samples, specs and pricing.
The fans are available now, contact us directly or through your local rep for samples, specs and pricing.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Heart disease more often misdiagnosed as stress in women, than men
Gender bias in medicine is alive and well, according to the investigative study - Gender Bias in the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Interpretation of CHD Symptoms: Two Experimental Studies with Internists and Family Physicians." The study, led by Gabrielle R. Chiaramonte, Ph.D., postdoctoral associate at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Clinical Fellow at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, looked specifically at the effects of patients' gender on how coronary heart disease symptoms are evaluated by primary care physicians.
The researchers found that stressful events in the lives of women were "pyschogenic" in origin, but "organic" in origin when the same symptoms presented in men. Specifically, in the study, 87 internists and 143 family physicians were asked to interpret a "vignette" of a 47-year-old male or a 56-year-old female presenting a variety of coronary heart disease (CHD) symptoms and risk factors. After reviewing the vignettes, the doctors specified a diagnosis and made treatment recommendations. As the investigators suspected, the results showed a clear gender bias when CHD symptoms were presented in the context of stress, with fewer women -15% - receiving CHD diagnoses, compared to 56% of the men. In addition, women were referred to cardiologists just 30% of the time, compared to 62% for men, and the doctors prescribed cardiac medication to just 13% of the women, versus 47% of men. The bottom line? Primary care doctors are more likely to attribute shortness of breath, chest pain and other symptoms of heart disease to stress in women than when they see the same symptoms in men.
"We know that there is a delay in diagnosing CHD in women and this is an important step forward in understanding why," said Alexandra J. Lansky, M.D., director of the Women's Health Initiative at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF). The CRF sponsored the 20th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics scientific symposium, at which the research was presented last fall. And warns Dr. Chiaramonte, "Given the overlap of CHD and anxiety symptoms (e.g., chest tightness common in both) and given the higher prevalence of anxiety symptoms or disorders in women, physicians need to be aware of gender differences in symptom presentation and they need to be especially careful to rule out CHD before considering an anxiety diagnosis. In the case of women, anxiety appears to have a pervasive influence on medical judgments regardless of the gender of the health care provider making the evaluations. Our results suggest the need for the development of educational initiatives aimed at improving health care providers' understanding of gender differences in symptom presentation
The researchers found that stressful events in the lives of women were "pyschogenic" in origin, but "organic" in origin when the same symptoms presented in men. Specifically, in the study, 87 internists and 143 family physicians were asked to interpret a "vignette" of a 47-year-old male or a 56-year-old female presenting a variety of coronary heart disease (CHD) symptoms and risk factors. After reviewing the vignettes, the doctors specified a diagnosis and made treatment recommendations. As the investigators suspected, the results showed a clear gender bias when CHD symptoms were presented in the context of stress, with fewer women -15% - receiving CHD diagnoses, compared to 56% of the men. In addition, women were referred to cardiologists just 30% of the time, compared to 62% for men, and the doctors prescribed cardiac medication to just 13% of the women, versus 47% of men. The bottom line? Primary care doctors are more likely to attribute shortness of breath, chest pain and other symptoms of heart disease to stress in women than when they see the same symptoms in men.
"We know that there is a delay in diagnosing CHD in women and this is an important step forward in understanding why," said Alexandra J. Lansky, M.D., director of the Women's Health Initiative at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF). The CRF sponsored the 20th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics scientific symposium, at which the research was presented last fall. And warns Dr. Chiaramonte, "Given the overlap of CHD and anxiety symptoms (e.g., chest tightness common in both) and given the higher prevalence of anxiety symptoms or disorders in women, physicians need to be aware of gender differences in symptom presentation and they need to be especially careful to rule out CHD before considering an anxiety diagnosis. In the case of women, anxiety appears to have a pervasive influence on medical judgments regardless of the gender of the health care provider making the evaluations. Our results suggest the need for the development of educational initiatives aimed at improving health care providers' understanding of gender differences in symptom presentation
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