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Agita São Paulo Agita
São Paulo is
a public awareness campaign initiated in
American College of Sports Medicine http://www.acsm.org/sportsmed/ The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) is a sports medicine and exercise science organization. The focus is on people -- from astronauts to athletes to those people chronically diseased or physically challenged. The ACSM continues to look for and find better methods to allow everyone to live longer and more productively. Publications include Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, the ACSM Health & Fitness Journal, Exercise & Sport Sciences Reviews, and the Sports Medicine Bulletin.
Combined Health Information Data Base (CHID.Online) The Combined Health Information Data Base, is a bibliographic database produced by health-related agencies of the United States Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources. CHID lists a health promotion and education materials and program descriptions that are not indexed elsewhere. New records are added quarterly and current listings are checked regularly to help ensure that entries are up to date and still available from their original sources. Some older records are retained for archival purposes. CHID is updated four times a year. The updated database is available at the end of these months: January, April, July, and October. In this as in any comprehensive database the evaluation of merit is left to the user.
BrainyQuotes. BrainyQuotes. Is a free site that offers over 30,000 quotes by 8,000 authors from Aristotle to Zappa. It has a huge database with many options for searching for quotes from antiquity to the present. It is highly informative and entertaining. It can be used to augment the selected quotations in the collation in Animated Essays for Human Biologists and Health Professionals or it can be browsed for reading pleasure. One can subscribe and received daily email quotes. Canada's Sport Information Resource Centre
Center for Media & Democracy http://www.prwatch.org/index.html The Center for Media & Democracy is a nonprofit, public interest organization funded by individuals and nonprofit foundations and dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry. The Center serves citizens, journalists and researchers seeking to recognize and combat manipulative and misleading PR practices. Whether the issue is health, consumer safety, environmental preservation or democracy and world peace, citizens today find themselves confronted by a bewildering array of hired propagandists paid to convince the public that junk food is nutritious, pollution is harmless, and that what's good for big business and big government is good for the rest of us. The site updates and encourages whistle blowing on fraudulent Their publications include a quarterly newsletter, and four acclaimed books PR Watch, the claim to specialize in blowing the lid off today's multi-billion dollar propaganda-for-hire industry, naming names and revealing how public relations wizards concoct and spin the news, organize phony 'grassroots' front groups, spy on citizens, and conspire with lobbyists and politicians to thwart democracy.
Discovery On Line Here you find popular accounts of science and current events of general interest -- more reportorial than critical evaluation.
Deming Institute http://www.deming.org/instituteinfo/index.html\ The W. Edwards Deming Institute ® is a nonprofit corporation which provides educational services related to the teachings of Dr. Deming to advance world prosperity and peace through enlightened commercial enterprise. His views on quality and integrity strike a responsive note for dedicated human biologists and health professionals.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Search anywhere. Find it here. This free Web navigation service, selected by Britannica editors, is a multi-dimensional comprehensive search engine that is truly efficient at finding authoritative and useful information on the web.
European Anthropological Association http://www.vub.ac.be/gst/eaa/01WhtEAA.html The European Anthropological Association (EAA) is a scientific organization which aims to promote research and teaching in Anthropology in the different European countries, and to promote exchanges of information, workshops, scientific congresses, and schools at the post graduate level. The Association has about 600 regular members from 30 European and 5 non-European countries. A newsletter is distributed among all members twice or 3 times a year. The EAA also arranges a congress every two years (on the even years) in a different European host city. The International Journal of Anthropology is the official organ of the EAA.
Forment's Links http://www.unipv.it/webbio/dfantrop.htm Dr D. Formenti, University of Pavia, has compiled an awesome source website as a source for human biological materials. It provides an international, multiingual, multi-disciplinary perspective to 1000's of sites that open the internet to scholars who can follow up chains formed by many links. DF <formenti@unipv.it>
Freedom's Nest http://www.freedomsnest.com/fn/index.html This is a net site with a mission to empower individuals to think about the nature of the human condition. The site provides a listing of quotations from a variety of commentators on the passing scene and a daily e-mail quotation service. Of particular interest are the quotations of Arthur Koestler, proponent of the bi-association theory for acts of creativity.
Google
Inc
is a premier search engine providing simple, fast, and highly relevant
search results for every web-connected computer. Google is in the
vanguard of search technology including sophisticated text matching and
its a patent-pending algorithm called PageRank® which ensures that the
most important search results always come up first. This scalable
approach to search enables Google to get better as the Internet gets
bigger. Google provides a fast and efficient way to access information. It fills a particularly important role in providing access to information on complex issues in human biology and the health professions. It is an indispensable scholarly tool. Used in connection with the authors cited in Craig’s Quote un Quote it enables users to put the quote in historical and philosophical context. Google also offers customized language preferences for users to search the web in their native language. International users can view versions of the Google homepage, search tips, and help pages in their preferred dialect. Current languages supported by Google include Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Google also offers free search services through its own destination website above.
GuruNet Accoording to the publisher’ summary statement, Gurunet is a one-click reference library on demand. It lets you click on any word in any Windows application (e-mail, browser, Office, and so on), and brings up a quick definition or snapshot in a pop-up window. GuruNet Free contains basic language tools, such as a dictionary, a spelling checker, a thesaurus, and a word translator. You can upgrade from it to the full version to add encyclopedias, biographies, celebrities, companies, news, sports, weather, stock prices, maps, military terms, idioms, tech terms, acronyms, and much more. Unlike search engines that show you long lists of links to follow one-by-one, GuruNet brings a summary to you in a simple pop-up window, without interrupting your work. Version 4.2 allows the user bookmark topics for future quick access, and to add your own search tabs to submit your query to any search page you want in addition to GuruNet's own content library.
Health Calculators and Charts Health Calculators and Charts by kind permission of Dr. Steve B Halls (Edmonton), we include a link to his site that provides calculators for contemporary scaling used in medical practice to provide normative guidelines including BMI, Breast Cancer Risk, Ideal Weight, Body Surface Area, Growth Charts of Children. Height and Weight. Two people exactly the same height and weight do not have similar body composition, surface area, or the same health risk. It is departures from norms that provide the basis for the assessment of individual physique status and monitoring change with growth, exercise, nutrition and treatment.
Heath Carter Somatotype Manual http://www.sweattechnologies.com/~somatotype/Heath-CarterManual.pdf This site provides a free 26 page PDF manual for the Heath Carter Somatotype method with instructions for the anthropometric derivation. Software for the analysis and comparison of body shape using anthropometric variables to calculate somatotypes with a variety of displays are commercially available through www.sweattechnologies.com/ .
The International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE ) The
International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education was
founded in
International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry The International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry (ISAK) coordinates an international movement of scientists and health professionals concerned with the quantitative interface between human structure and function, in the service of human kind. It contributes to advancing theory, technique and technology -- setting standards of excellence and providing for accreditation courses.
The Fédération Internationale de Médecine du Sport (FIMS) http://www.fims.org/fims/frames.asp The International Federation of Sports Medicine is an international organization comprised of individual members, national associations, and multinational groups, with a common involvement with sports medicine on all continents. FIMS aims primarily to promote the study and development of sports medicine throughout the world, and to assist athletes in achieving optimal performance by maximizing their genetic potential, health, nutrition, associated with high-quality medical care and training.
NCHS - National Center for Health Statistics (USA) NCHS is the primary Federal organization in the United States responsible for the collection, analyses, and dissemination of health statistics. The intent of this site is to provide users access to the health information that NCHS produces. Users can browse the publications and statistical tables, download selected public-use data files, conduct on-line database queries and searches in Wonder, track progress toward Healthy People 2000 objectives, or access FASTSTATS from A-Z. The site also contains information about each NCHS survey and data system, special programs and activities, upcoming seminars, conferences and training, as well as links to other sites and the latest NCHS employment opportunities. Their stated goal is to provide timely, accurate, and dependable products and services that meet or exceed your expectations.
Pub Med http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ This is a US National Library of Medicine search service to access the nine million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE, with links to participating on-line journals and other related databases.
Quackwatch Inc Quackwatch,
Inc.,
was a member of Consumer Federation of America for 30 years. It is a
nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to combat health-related frauds,
myths, fads, and fallacies. Its primary focus is on quackery-related
information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere. Founded by
Dr. Stephen Barrett
in 1969 as the Lehigh Valley Committee Against Health Fraud, it was
incorporated in 1970. In 1997, it assumed its current name and began
developing a worldwide network of volunteers and expert advisors.
Their activities include:
Rosscraft SRL (Argentina) ROSSCRAFT
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Sports Dietitians Australia SDA http://www.sportsdietitians.com/ Sport Dietitians Australia (SDA) is a professional organization of dietitians specializing in the field of sports nutrition. The site has up to date sports nutrition information based on sound scientific principles for both the general public and health professionals. All members are registered dietitians and are ISAK certified anthropometrists.
Sportscience This is a new peer reviewed electronic journal specializing in human physical performance. Original research submissions are solicited. Advantages include accessible data and statistics; downloading of article templates to ease writing, reviewing and editing; downloadable free reprints; and a downloadable bibliographic file for importing into reference managers. Editor: Will Hopkins editor@sportsci.org
Underground Grammarian (Richard Mitchell) http://www.sourcetext.com/grammarian/ The late Richard Mitchell (4/26/29-12/27/02) was the Underground Grammarian, an academic iconoclast. A little note from the author: Permission to Copy and Plagiarize all his assembled works at this site is with his invitation: . "We are often asked permission to reprint or duplicate or in some other way to circulate the pieces that appear in The Underground Grammarian. It always seems to us a good idea, and we always grant such permission. In fact, you may take this little notice as prior written permission to do likewise in any fashion that seems good to you. We neither ask nor expect any form of payment, but we would like to be cited as the source. But if admitting that you read this sheet will get you into hot water, we will be the first to understand.
Vegetarianism Worldwide Vegetarianism Worldwide is a awesome international, multi-lingual website loaded with information about food and nutrition. While primarily espousing nutrition low on the food chain for health, ecological, ethical and humanitarian reasons it encourages individual decision making and involvement at various levels of commitment.
World of Mathematics (Eric Weisstein) Eric Weisstein’s World of Mathematics. A free service for the mathematical communities provided by Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica, with additional support from the National Science Foundation. It is a particularly useful site for human biologists and health professionals concerned with data resolution, report and interpretation.
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