Recent content by aychamo

Thank you. I'm many years out of college now and just barely remember how this works. :)

Hi, I'm having a brain fart. Consider the amino acid glutamate (glutamic acid): -> When it forms an ionic bond with Na+ to make MSG, the glutamic acid loses it's hydrogen on the right side. Is it that it was "oxidized"? Or what do we call the process where it loses the hydrogen...

Hey all, I saw this this (..) morning. :) http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/4321/first-habitable-exoplanet-confirmed 20 light years away, can have water and an atmosphere. What do you guys think? Is this a legit claim? (I hope this isn't old news that's been posting days or weeks...

I read the tech blog Gizmodo. They recently posted a story about Stephen Hawking. Read through the comments: http://gizmodo.com/5628375/stephen-hawking-big-bangs-happen It is amazing how many people have no concept of science. Nobody seems to even have a concept of what a theory or law...

Sorry to bump an old thread. Thank you for saying this outright. Alternative medicine is the bane of my existence. My fiance works in a spa, and a lot of her friends are massage therapists. These people have all sorts of wacky / quackery belief systems. Massage therapists are taught all...

Hi guys, Very long time, no see! Quick question: if water is left outside and freezes, was any energy consumed in the freezing process? And if so, would this energy be stored in the ice and be released when it melts? My gut is telling me that no energy is needed to freeze water...

You're right. In med school they teach us that H. pylori is essentially the cause of like 90% of GI ulcers. People used to think that it was stress, but it was demonstrated that H. pylori was the culprit. Stress can precipitate the problem though, of course. And yes, chronic inflammation...

Yes, you need to be exposed to something (ie, an antigen) to be able to build an immunity (antibody) to it.

Well, with bacteria, for the most part, if you just looked at them without doing anything to them, under the microscope most of them bascailly look the same (either as spheres or rods.) Gram staining is just a technique to help classify bacteria. The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram_stain"...

Yeah, I'v'e never heard anything of bacteria being linked with cancers.. Viruses, of course. But bacteria, no. I could see bacteria contributing in terms of perhaps constant inflammation on top of another initiating event.

Well, if your intestines got open, and all those nice gram negative's got out and died, and released their endotoxin (lipid A component of their LPS), you could die within 5 hours. That's a problem with people who have septicemia with gram negatives.. If you kill the bacteria, you can kill...

So how would the code operate at runtime? If the initialize method were called again, when it gets to the line: static BOOL initialized = NO; What would happen? I guess I'm stuck in my old thought of Pascal programming, where in a procedure/function any variable you declare there is only...

Hello everyone; I've been reading a document over on Apple's Developer website, called "The Object-C Language." I'm reading about classes, and there is a part called "Initializing a Class Object" and it gives an example of how to implement an initialize method for a class: + (void)...

Ooooops :) I was so ignorant, I put C# instead of Objective C! lol. I found a lot of decent docs on their webpage, so I've been trying to read those to learn some things.

Hey guys.. I wanted to tool around in developing some very simple, basic programs for my Mac using Apple's XCode and C#. I have a little backgrouund in computer programming. I unfortunately learned via Pascal, but did pascal for at least six years and then moved on to Delphi. I even...