Everything we do is for a reason and I felt like this was an opportunity to do what we wanted to do right down to the album cover and the album title. It was another opportunity to be creative and invoke thought. We thought the title "Every Six Seconds" said a lot about the world today and where our society is pretty much sitting. I got it from a news documentary I was watching that was talking about robbery and car theft and murder and other subjects. It finally got around to sex of course and they said that men think about sex every six seconds. I thought that was really interesting and it kind of stuck in my mind. I think it says it all for me and for the record. It's dealing with everything from the healing condition to anger and love and sex and spiritually and the disillusionment with society. I think the title is befitting.[7]
Saliva Every Six Seconds
Separately in Clinical Infectious Diseases, a research team led by a scientist at Hokkaido University (Japan) report on a quick and effective mass testing approach using saliva samples to detect individuals who have been infected with COVID-19 but are still not showing symptoms. Researchers tested and compared the nasopharyngeal swabs and saliva samples of almost 2,000 people in Japan who did not have COVID-19 symptoms. Both the PCR tests and less commonly used but faster and more portable RT-LAMP test were performed on most of the samples. The number of positive and negative results in all samples was very similar, with the nasal swabs and saliva samples able to detect those with the infection in 77%-93% and 83%-97% of subjects, respectively. Both tests were also able to identify those without the infection in greater than 99.9% of subjects. The virus loads detected in nasal swab and saliva were equivalent and highly correlated. DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1388
If you have to care forsomeone with HIV infection it is important to know how itis and how it is not spread. The commonest modes of thespread of HIV are by having unprotected vaginal, anal ororal sex with someone infected by HIV, by gettingtransfused with blood from an infected individual, bysharing needles or syringes with someone infected andfrom mothers to their babies before the baby is born,during birth or by breast-feeding. HIV does not spreadfrom air, food, water, animals, insects, spoons, sharingthe toilet or bathroom with an infected individual oranything else that does not involve blood, semen, vaginalfluid or breast milk. Likewise, one cannot get infectionfrom saliva, sweat, farces, urine, tears or vomit unlessthese have been mixed or contaminated with blood.
So long as there is noserious infection, the best place for persons infectedwith HIV is at home surrounded by the loved ones. Theyshould be allowed to take care of themselves and feel asindependent as possible. They should continue to carryout their jobs as long as their strength permits. If theyhave to spend most to their time in bed it helps tochange their posture at least every four hours to preventbed sores.
Guarding againstinfections in one of the most important aspects oflooking after people with HIV infection they can get verysick from common infections. The best way to kill germscausing infection is to wash your hands often enough withwarm soapy water for at least 15 seconds.
When to consult your doctor? Initially when the individual is healthy, everysix months. Later on more frequent visits may benecessary depending on the nature and frequency ofinfections that might occur. Also, consult the doctor ifthere are fever, cough, persisting headache, persistentdiarrhoea, feeling of tiredness all the time, weightloss, blurring of vision, burning, itching or dischargefrom the vagina, persistent abdominal pain or for thatmatter anything that makes the person unwell. If theproblem is not significant, reassurance alone may beenough.
First, subjects completed two control tasks that assessed object identity memory and visuospatial construction and perception. In the object identity task, subjects viewed 10 different objects for 30 seconds; these objects had to be remembered and subsequently recognised from a set of 20 objects, containing 10 of the ones shown previously and 10 distractors. In the visuospatial construction task, subjects had to copy a frame containing 10 different objects at different locations without a memory component. Each task condition consisted of an example containing only four objects/positions, followed by two different test displays.
Each emotion (happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, disgust) was presented for 1.0 second at three intensities (30%, 50% and 70%) by four actors, together with 12 presentations of neutral expressions. The inter-trial interval was 4.5 seconds, participants pressed a labelled key to indicate their choice of emotion.
The computerised task consisted being asked to respond as quickly as possible with a key press to target words presented on the screen, and to ignore distractor words. Six types of blocks were presented made up of positive, negative and neutral targets, and of positive, negative and neutral distractors, for example positive targets and negative distractors (GoPos+NoGoNeg), positive targets and neutral distractors (GoPos+NoGoNeut), negative targets and positive distractors (GoNeg+NoGoPos), etc. For each type of block, participants were instructed as to which type of target to respond. Each block contained nine targets and nine distractors, with each word presented for 1.75 seconds. Each type of block was presented twice, making 12 blocks in all. Some early participants received a version of the task with three blocks of each type but it was decided that this made the task too long. These results are included in the analysis correcting for the number of presentations by using hit rates (hits/targets presented) and false-alarm rates (false alarms/distractors presented).
During the recognition segment of the task, a total of 96 images were shown in six blocks of eight positive images and six blocks of eight neutral images (each block lasting 48 seconds). These were followed by a block of rest, consisting of a fixation cross, which also lasted 24 seconds each. There were six blocks of each condition shown, making the task length 432 seconds in total. All images shown in the encoding section were re-shown. Participants were asked to indicate, using the button box, whether or not they recognised the image from the encoding task.
A blocked version of the n-back task was adapted from the task of Koychev et al.105 It consisted of four blocks of zero-back and four blocks of two-back, each lasting 32 seconds. These required three correct responses from 13 stimuli per block using the button box. These blocks were interspersed with four blocks of rest consisting of a fixation cross, lasting 20 seconds. 2ff7e9595c
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