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This book discusses the meaning, importance, and uses of intuition. In the first chapter the development of the conceptual history of intuition is traced from the ancient seers, religion, art, psychology, and philosophy. In chapter 2, work which has contributed to the development of intuition as a philosophical and psychological concept is reviewed. In the third chapter, the domains and range of intuition are explored. In chapter 4, a framework is established, built on the notion of "intuitive mode," and intuitive thinking is differentiated from analytic thinking. In chapter 5, ways of enhancing intuitive modes are considered. In the sixth chapter, a variety of specific suggestions are offered for intuitive arrangement and presentation of subject matter, together with rationales for their acceptance and implementaiton. In chapter 7, "Intuition, Love, and Education," it is emphasized that intuition is active in the teacher-student relationship and that teaching may enhance both moral and intellectual sensitivity in students. The eighth chapter deals with recent writings on intuition and their implications for creative teaching. A final chapter on "Conclusions" completes the book. (JD)

Chapter 9 of the handbook "Manual of Pedriatric Intensive Care" is presented. This chapter discusses how to monitor the central nervous system (CNS). According to the author, real-time evaluation and assessment of the patient and of interventions are required in CNS monitoring. It notes that the best test to determine how the patient's brain functions is clinical examination. Neurologic examination, at the minimum, is consist of mental status examination, pupil size and reactivity, and presence of cough and gag.

It is the exquisite interplay of proteins and nucleic acids within the cell which gives rise to the controlled expression and replication of the genetic material. Our present understanding of these processes is in part the result of the successful purification and characterization of the participating macromolecules. The achievements of the early molecular biologists in obtaining active, homogeneous preparations of low-abundance gene regulatory proteins are outstanding. The strategies employed for the purification of such proteins are, however, no different in principle to those procedures used to purify high-abundance proteins. Moreover, one of the goals of molecular biologists in purifying gene regulatory proteins is to clone the corresponding gene. When this has been achieved, the gene can often be overexpressed, and the purification of the gene product becomes trivial by comparison. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]