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Therapy improves depression, anxiety, withdrawal, small study finds
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LONDON - Music therapy many help to ease the depression, anxiety and emotional withdrawal symptoms of schizophrenia, British scientists said on Wednesday.
In a small study in four hospitals, researchers at Imperial College London found that encouraging patients to express themselves through music seemed to improve their symptoms.
“We have known for some time that psychological treatments can help people with schizophrenia, but these have only been used when people are fairly stable,” said Dr. Mike Crawford, the author of the study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
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Experimental strategy uses immune system to kill melanoma tumors
LONDON - The body’s own immune system can fight the deadly cancer melanoma if scientists can flip the system’s “off” switch to “on,” two preliminary studies suggest.
Scientists have long sought to rev up the disease-fighting cells of the immune system to fight melanoma. The new work addresses the other side of the coin, the regulatory cells that normally keep disease-fighting cells in check.
By shutting those inhibiting cells off, scientists hope to enable the disease-fighting cells to mount a continuous attack on the cancer. Two new studies of that strategy were reported this week in Prague at a European cancer research meeting.
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In this article we will look at the new Group Policy features in Vista.
Author: Derek Melber
As a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the area of Group Policy, it is always nice to see new Group Policy related changes, enhancements, and features from Microsoft. With the imminent release of Microsoft’s newest operating system, Vista, on the horizon, Microsoft is gearing up to deliver some more radical and amazing changes to Group Policy. As an instructor and consultant for Active Directory and Group Policy for the past 6 years, these changes are a welcome addition in my eyes. The reason is that I will no longer need to let people down (or point them to third party Group Policy extension solutions) when they ask me if Group Policy can solve problems related to Power Options, Printer management, and Device management. Other new Group Policy features in Vista include Network Location Awareness and a new approach for ADM templates.
New Group Policy Settings in Vista
It is not like Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 added enough settings to Group Policy, Vista is coming in with even more new settings to Group Policy. There will be approximately 2400 possible settings in a Group Policy Object that is created for a Windows Vista computer. This only adds about 800 settings, which is adding ½ again as much settings compared to Windows XP Service Pack 2. Many of the settings are being added in a response to customer response, while others are there to support new features that will be included in Vista. Some of the more important additions include those listed under the following areas.
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This article covers Administrative Templates and the Central Store in Windows Vista Group Policy.
Author: Jakob H. Heidelberg
Introduction
Windows Vista includes some important changes from earlier Windows operating systems in regards to Group Policy (GP). This article introduces you to how ADM files evolved into multi-lingual files by the use of XML (ADMX/ADML files) and the Central Store with all its glory.
Welcome to the constantly expanding Microsoft Group Policy universe.
ADM vs. ADMX/ADML files
ADM files were first introduced with Windows NT4 and they have stuck ever since. First of all it's important to understand, that ADM files are nothing but templates (Administrative Templates) - this means that when Group Policy Object Editor (GPOE) or Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) loads, the content is presented to the users of the console - nothing else (the administrative experience you could say). When the policy is changed or created, a Registry.pol file is created in the Group Policy Object (GPO) container - this is the actual policy with all the corresponding and specific registry settings defined in the template file(s). So, the machine or user receiving the policy actually doesn’t need the ADM files at all.
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