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  2. Backcasting - Wikipedia

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    Backcasting is a planning method that starts with defining a desirable future and then works backwards to identify policies and programs that will connect that specified future to the present. [1] The fundamentals of the method were outlined by John B. Robinson from the University of Waterloo in 1990. [ 2 ]

  3. Cognitive disengagement syndrome - Wikipedia

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    The diagnosis of "ADHD, not otherwise specified" also no longer includes any mention of CDS symptoms. [25] Similarly, ICD-10 , the medical diagnostic manual, has no diagnosis code for CDS. Although CDS is not recognized as a disorder at this point, researchers continue to debate its usefulness as a construct and its implications for further ...

  4. List of paraphilias - Wikipedia

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    Paraphilias are sexual interests in objects, situations, or individuals that are atypical. The American Psychiatric Association, in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fifth Edition (DSM), draws a distinction between paraphilias (which it describes as atypical sexual interests) and paraphilic disorders (which additionally require the experience of distress, impairment in functioning, and/or ...

  5. Inverse agonist - Wikipedia

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    An example of a receptor site that possesses basal activity and for which inverse agonists have been identified is the GABA A receptors.Agonists for GABA A receptors (such as muscimol) create a relaxant effect, whereas inverse agonists have agitation effects (for example, Ro15-4513) or even convulsive and anxiogenic effects (certain beta-carbolines).

  6. Paradoxical reaction - Wikipedia

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    Naltrexone blocks the opioid receptors, acting opposite to most opioid pain medications. [22] It can be used to negate the effects of opioid painkillers. At doses around one-tenth of the typical dose, naltrexone has been used for pain relief. Low-dose naltrexone is believed to have an anti-inflammatory effect. This is an off-label use and not ...

  7. Everything which is not forbidden is allowed - Wikipedia

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    The opposite principle "everything which is not allowed is forbidden" states that an action can only be taken if it is specifically allowed. A senior English judge, Sir John Laws , stated the principles as: "For the individual citizen, everything which is not forbidden is allowed; but for public bodies, and notably government, everything which ...

  8. High- and low-level - Wikipedia

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    The instruction "write a creative poem on love" is a high-level instruction. The instruction "tighten the tendons in the dominant wrist to grip the pen" is a low-level description of an activity within that. "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia" is a high-level description compared to "Wikipedia is a collection of textual articles on many topics".

  9. Optical rotation - Wikipedia

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    The rotation of the crystal planes can be right or left-handed, again producing opposite optical activities. On the other hand, amorphous forms of silica such as fused quartz, like a racemic mixture of chiral molecules, has no net optical activity since one or the other crystal structure does not dominate the substance's internal molecular ...