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		<title>Glossary on Learning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Explaining different terms of learning including the compounding of schedules
Acceptance: The third and last step of observational learning; the observer uses acquired modelling cues as a guide for his or her own behaviour, which is either imitative or counter imitative.
Acquisition: The learning of a response. Also, as the second step of observational learning, it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glossary on the Topic Perception</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Absolute threshold: The smallest amount of physical stimulus energy that is required to produce a sensation.
Ampulla: The enlarged area at the base of each semicircular canal that contains the receptors for the perception of body rotation.
Aqueous humour: The liquid that fills the space in the eye between the cornea and the lens.
Auditory canal: The passage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mycommoncold.com/glossary-on-perception/</link>
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		<title>Glossary of Psychology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Behaviorism: The school of psychology, founded by John Watson, which asserts that the relationship between observable stimuli and responses is the only appropriate subject matter of psychology.
Case study: A research procedure by which current, historical, and biographical information is collected for a single individual.
Control group: An essential part of any experiment, this group of subjects [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mycommoncold.com/glossary-of-psychology/</link>
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		<title>Tonsils And Adenoids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The tonsils and adenoids are areas in which biochemical defenses called antibodies are produced to fight infection. The tonsils are a matched pair at the sides of the throat, the adenoids a single mass high at the back. Paradoxically, both may become infected and cause infection elsewhere, particularly in childhood, when tonsils and adenoids are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mycommoncold.com/tonsils-and-adenoids/</link>
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		<title>Most Susceptible Babies And Women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As people grow older, they generally have fewer colds. The graph at left documents the drop-off in the incidence of respiratory disease over the average lifetime, as traced in a six-year study of 4,905 males and females in Tecumseh, Michigan. The researchers’ figures lump together all respiratory illness, including influenza, bronchitis and pneumonia, as well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mycommoncold.com/most-susceptible-babies-and-women/</link>
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		<title>In Every Climate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not surprisingly, in the Northern Hemisphere, colds reach their peak in winter: There is prevalence of colds in Sheffield, England, during the 1960s. In the tropics colds occur most frequently during the rainy season. The Caribbean island of Trinidad for example, has no winter, and colds are at their worst there in June and July.
[There [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mycommoncold.com/in-every-climate/</link>
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		<title>Interferon And Anmantadine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interferon has received so much international celebrity that significant developments in another kind of cure for respiratory infection—synthetic chemical compounds that would kill viruses the way antibiotics kill bacteria—have gone almost unnoticed. None is yet effective against colds, but one such chemical, given the generic name amantadine hydrochloride and the trade name Symmetrel by its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mycommoncold.com/interferon-and-anmantadine/</link>
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		<title>Interferon Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The cost of the interferon used in the Common Cold Unit experiment—administered as a nasal spray—was nearly $3,000 per subject tested. Promising though the test results were for progress against colds, Merigan and others experimenting with interferon turned their attention to the substance’s value in combating chronic and life-threatening diseases associated with the immune system [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mycommoncold.com/interferon-revisited/</link>
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		<title>Interferon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This marvelous broad-spectrum protective mechanism, researchers have found, begins to work within several hours after the initial viral invasion. The amount of interferon produced is usually insufficient to block all of the viruses before infection takes some toll in damaged and destroyed cells. But the substance is critical in slowing viral spread, thereby buying the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mycommoncold.com/interferon-and/</link>
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		<title>Vitamin C</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By giving volunteers doses of the vitamin that have been made harmlessly radioactive, they can trace the radioactivity and follow vitamin C as it moves through the body, thereby establishing the patterns of bodily processing, storage, uptake by the blood, and elimination. These patterns become the basis for establishing healthful vitamin C levels in an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mycommoncold.com/vitamin-c/</link>
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