Thứ Ba, 9 tháng 10, 2018

Waching daily Oct 9 2018

I got a cam... a vlogging cam...

but she has no... like...something

preview thing

where iI could see myself and check if

my head´s on it

Is my chin cut off? Does my chin look like a fat sausage? :D

did you tell your mum to bring ... the blender?

oh darling :D

I had a really big appetite for oatmeal today

They're just oats cooked with a little rice milk

raspberries and I also mashed in half a banana

I'm gonna let it simmer a little so it'll soak up

meanwhile Alex´s potatoes are baking in the oven

I just mixed something together to make these beautiful laibs

There's chickpeas in there, a little polenta,

gluten free flour, walnuts, sesame seeds,

and a lot of spices, salt and paprika

exactly, I garnished this meal with some roasted pine nuts,

pupmkin seeds and cashews

That´s Alex´s meal because today he prefers something savoury

As I have said I made myself some oats

with cashews and banana

We are going now to...... ALEX, come on???

rehearsal room! it is "rehearsal room thursday"!

Actually it is not that funny

I just got checked in the metro .. and i did not have a ticket :(

the fridge is here now

there is a step

We are going to meet up with some vegans

vegans from vienna get to know each other there and we are going to... I don´t know .. maybe drink something

and eat something, sounds wonderful

spontaneous trip

what do you feel?

Love :)

Stracciatella, what else did you get? Strawberry - agave?

yes

And I got .. You can´t see it properly

pumpkin spice, it tastes like gingerbread

and a bit

of lavender - blueberry ice cream

so, I split one portion into two half ones

Now you can see it properly

Again, I got pumpkin spice and lavender - blueberry

Now we are drinking

a cup of tea with milk

and we are going to

I don´t know actually

drink tea?

yeah, and thumbs up would be so nice :D

uugh so ugly

I just laughed in such a ugly way hahahaha

thumbs up

thumbs up :D

pitch - dark

Good night :)

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5 Reasons Our Weight Fluctuates - Duration: 2:00.

Hi, Sharon here at Bonvie Weight Loss & Nutritional Wellness in Santa Monica and Portland. Have

you ever noticed that you weigh heavier (or lighter) at different times of the day? For

starters most people like to weigh themselves close to buck-naked first thing in the morning;

then when they go to the gym or their doctors office a bit later in the day, much to their

dismay, they weigh more. That early morning "lightness of being" can be explained

by lack of clothing, the difference in scales, elimination patterns, physical activity, and

sodium and fluid levels. Even on your own scale there can be quite a variation depending

on calibration, your weight distribution while standing on it, what you are wearing, and

the time of day. Morning usually gives the most accurate reading but as the day goes

on, and especially after a big meal or if you are dehydrated, you can expect your scale

number to increase. Illness and disease can also bring unexpected weight change if you

lose your appetite or retain water due to dehydration. Also many drugs, including anti-inflammatories,

antihistamines, and opiates, can cause quick weight loss. Meds, like insulin, antidepressants,

and some anti-epileptic drugs, can make you gain weight quickly. Now how about water

weight? At BonVie we want you to drink 2 liters throughout the day. Being dehydrated will

slow down metabolism and make it harder for you to burn fat – and the scale will show

that. And too much salt will cause you to retain water and that can temporarily raise

weight on your scale. How about elimination patterns? If you don't have a bowel movement

it's going to show on the scale. On the lighter side, if you have diarrhea or have

just had a colonoscopy, that will show you lighter. Give us a call at BonVie for a free

telephone consultation and we will answer all your questions about weight and fat loss.

And watch our video on how sleep affects weight loss and you'll know how sleep – or lack

of it - can change your weight.

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What is the Perception Action Cycle? - Duration: 1:46.

Our brain makes sense of the world around us by creating and testing

hypotheses about the way the world works.

Neuroscientists call this simple yet powerful system the perception action cycle.

When presented with new situations, our brain uses existing schema to make predictions,

takes actions based on the outcome,

perceives the outcome,

and adjusts its hypotheses if necessary.

We learn through this same basic process throughout life.

Not by being told but by doing.

We're hardwired to learn by interacting with the world around us and then perceiving the results.

And when the feedback is informative and immediate,

learners are better able to update their existing schema and incorporate the new information.

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Soul Fusion Card List and Sneak Peek Guide (Part 2)

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Christian Münzner | Ibanez Guitars Showcase | Part 1 | Gear Check | Thomann - Duration: 12:44.

I never think now we have to write a song that people know we can play six

string sweeps pictures or something like that right it's more about finding

an interesting chord progression that evokes a specific type of feeling

finding and melody on an arrangement wasting a little bit around the corner

which is not the most obvious thing that you

musical Stroman and today we got his dan mintner with us who's known for his work

with nick of august spawn of possession obscura of course

alkalete and today he brought a bunch of great Ibanez guitars with him and I

guess we're gonna talk a little about those guitars yes so I'm here I'm having

the iron label Archie D multi scale guitar which comes with fent frets which

is something which is quite new to me the nice thing about those is that you

can play chord voicings that wouldn't sounds are great normally on other

guitars like for example a regular C major 7 voicing would normally sound

quite nasty with non frets in here it works because they just seem to intonate

much better than regular ones and also what I really like about this system is

the playability it actually leads to hand to be in a way more natural

position and you can avoid a lot of unnecessary tension and in crime so I

believe that this system also automatically leads to better playing

technique and more natural positioning of the hand I guess it works well with

especially D tunings and drop tuning so know the little stuff I guess most

probably for dampening I think that the longer measure works really well yeah

so this guitar comes was a three piece nitro wizard maple neck which I guess is

the usual next that Ibanez guitar chef de Partie like the back side of it is

mahogany I think the middle is ash and the top is basically a flame maple it's

not that easy to have a color in a really metal guitar I guess but this one

just looks awesome yeah I think differently yeah III think

so two minutes is it a mix through no it's not it's

actually a Sue's Bolton yeah okay all right so I'm this guitar comes with a

3-way switch I used it quite a lot because in my

solos are very often switch back and forth between the bridge and then I

could pick up like for white and there was stuff I'd just like to which chose

neck pickup and this guitar doesn't have a single call here but therefore you can

switch the voicings by just pull in D what do you know pulling it out and yeah

yeah memorize I actually like this because it's quite simple in function

and yeah I don't like when there's too much stuff to just keeps confusing me so

I'm accessible I guess right exactly but it's not in a way what I actually like

the way it's positioned it's not true in a way for the picking hand like some of

the older models had the problems I would like turn down the volume behind

the will end up with my pinky this doesn't happen here so um I'm very happy

with this model

and I'd like to switch to the neck my go-to like no white antibiotic stuff so

this one appears to be more classic kind of Ibanez one I guess they have their

30th anniversary with the Rd model last here it was about ink so last year i

guess yeah was 1987 I don't know and this one's pretty much like that I guess

yes pretty much 80s style a - red guitar I think steer Archie was terrorist

headstock this is more traditional closer to lead guitars i am already used

to playing yeah as I said it comes with next true as adam acetone zone in the

bridge 5-way pickup switch shark tooth inlay so very much in the style of the

80s Archie guitars and it's it's also also

plays like this I think this guitars are really made for fast playing and for the

metal guitarists actually I think they got a quite a slinking neck as well it's

quite quite flat you can't get a grip on exactly you don't need a lot of like you

don't need a lot of like strength from a left-hander get a very good attack and

and and tone out of it and it just plays very nice and very few on so I think

they're specifically made for that style and the cool thing about that 5 way

switch is you can go of course from from bridge pickup to split single coil which

is the second position I guess from one both of the humbuckers let these two yes

yeah middle position is both of them full

both of them full yeah and then the fourth position ok this is I think

something that is new they didn't have any previous models this basically

switch just a top hamburger from serial to parallel and just aha okay cool so

get more kind of I don't know I guess crispy sound something like that and of

course the last position is gonna be the full neck pickup here I come to complete

homework up sound yeah yeah well can we hear something yes sure

so there's something possible with electric guitars which appears a bit

surprising to us metal players especially there is the option of

playing a clean sound as well so can you please show us what this instrument can

do yeah even with those metal looks this is actually possible there's maybe not

something I would do in my test model situations very often but my solo

material I play quite a lot of clean tones here and there let's just check

the different positions of the pickups mr. clean town well the clean town

that's incredible what kinds of clean tones you can get out of that thing and

how much the different pickups affect the real sound

yeah well music is myself via incredible cool cool

so quite a where's a target all yeah I'm saying I definitely agree

so 7-string guitars I guess smaller metal won't be the same without seven

strings oh wait on line this time we're going with a seven string the Rd over

seven can you tell us a little about it yeah this is the Archies seven standard

which I guess is basically the same string version of the guitars that we

discussed previously it also comes with the fan fret system which is new to me

but which as I said previously I really like in which I'm contemplating tools

which do dig in it as well right now as we're talking it was a trying yes I

think it's the playability it's just a just nice composite in it's the same

neck the disc Qatar has just Ernest a seven string version again we have like

a 5-way pickup switch I'm I mean I only play some string guitars in alkaloid

apart from that I'm not so much of a seven string player I'm basically a

traditionalist I guess but this one just really plays super nice and here now we

tuned down to a because knock light which shone down a whole step and this

is super easy with those guitars because they come with the longer measure and

that's why they still internet very well yeah

so the pickups in this guitar they're called array seven it's basically the

same pickup in the bridge position and in the next position yeah I mean of

course it sounds super heavy

and then of course we have the neck position which I like for like widen the

bollocks stuff the very transparent tone which which I really like

I guess the middle positions they would suit nicely for clean tone situation

basically yeah kind of wider wider sound monotone as always John trivias Qatar's

so well I guess you use the seven strings of course for the icon of weed

stuff which I guess would not work for this style of music have strings seem to

be hardly enough and as well used for the second obscure I mean a second

obscure album we had was to line up that I was part of which techniques that

obscure admin Nigam this was wandering basically switched to the 7 string

guitars for the majority of the songs not always to go lower than then use but

also sometimes I mean Sam songs wouldn't even go Louis and six string guitars but

you just have a wider possibility so you could play stuff voicings and fingerings

that you wouldn't be able to do on a six-string guitar so that's the way that

we started using them personally I also used them a little bit in my solo

material in my two solo records there's a couple of tunes which used 7-string

guitars but not so many I'm most of the time six string player traditionally but

in alkaloid I mean the guys wanna do some really heavy so that's already

definitely a use of seven strings and we go even lower than that regular tunings

are we shown one whole step lower than then it normally comes so we shown too

low eight basically

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WHY I HAVE TO SLEEP ON MY COUCH - Duration: 12:42.

Did you guys also just arrive?

Hi how are you?

Good

Are we going to BBQ here?

Yes

Look! There are chairs.

Nice!

No I don't want it.

You look beautiful

No not with my angry face.

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How to Sew a Costume Arm Guard - Duration: 4:15.

Make a customized forearm guard for your cosplay or Halloween costumes in no time at all. We'll

show you how to create a simple pattern and then how to sew it all together. Let's get started.

For supplies you need about ⅓ of a yard of fabric for the main fabric, lining and

fusible interfacing. I'm using a faux suede for my main fabric and then a simple cotton

for my lining.

You'll also need a couple yards of leather twine, ribbon, or elastic cord for lacing.

I used 12 eyelets that are size 5/32. And you'll also need all purpose thread.

For tools you'll need your sewing machine, paper, pencil, flexible tape measure, ruler,

sewing gauge, scissors, pins and needles, an eyelet tool, and hammer.

You'll need to measure your wrist circumference, the circumference of your forearm where you

want the top of the guard to be, and the length from your wrist to the top of the guard.

Write down all your measurements but subtract at least a half inch from each of the circumference

measurements to ensure there will be a gap for your laces to go across.

For the length measurement, add a half inch for seam allowance.

Draw a line on your paper that is the length measurement.

Then on one end of this line, draw your adjusted wrist measurement, making sure the length

line is in the center of this line.

Repeat the process with the forearm measurement on the other side of the length line.

Lastly, use a ruler to connect the edges of wrist line to the forearm line and cut out

your pattern. From your pattern, you're going to cut one

from your main fabric, lining and interfacing. This is for one guard, so if you want to make

two, than cut two of each.

If you want to do any embellishment to your main fabric piece, do it now, but try and

keep any embellishments out of the seam allowance areas.

Attach fusible interfacing to the wrong side of the lining piece by placing a press cloth

over it, spraying it with water, and applying a hot iron until the interfacing is attached.

Place the main fabric and lining pieces right sides together and pin all the way around.

On the longest end put two sets of X'd pins about three inches apart so we can leave a

seam opening to eventually flip it right side out.

Starting at one X, sew a quarter inch seam allowance all the way around, ending when

you get to the second X. Don't forget to backstitch.

Cut off all corners being sure not to cut any stitches.

Flip it right side out through the opening and press.

I'm going to sew my opening closed using a slip stitch.

I'm using a contrasting thread color on my hand needle here.

And you can see I have my thread coming out on my lining side.

Directly across from that I am going to grab a little bit of the folded edge on my main fabric.

Push this all the way through.

And after I get me needle through, Im gently going to pull my thread.

To bring the two sides together

So I'm just going to go back to my lining side

And then back to the brown fabric.

and just zig-zag between the two sides until my opening has been closed.

Edge stitch around the whole guard at your sewing machine.

Mark where you want your eyelets to go on each of the diagonal edges. Everyone's length

is going to be different but I generally have my end eyelets ½" from the ends and then

each additional eyelet about 1 to 1 ¼" apart from each other. Use a pen to mark the

center of the eyelet on your fabric. Using scissors or a seam ripper, carefully

cut the fabric at each mark, making a hole big enough to fit the center of your eyelet

in.

Put the eyelet in from right side of main fabric to the lining side.

Place the eyelet on the eyelet anvil. This tool is part of an eyelet kit. Then place

the tool on top of the eyelet center. Hit the tool with your hammer a few times and

your eyelet is in.

Once all your eyelets are in, all you need to do is weave your cording through the eyelets.

You can use whatever trim you want for this. I'm using elastic cording so I can tie it

once and then it'll be easier for me to take it on and off by myself.

If you want to make more than one, then you can repeat the process. This is a basic template

and you can make your arm guard as elaborate as you wish.

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Part 2 – Balancing Society's Mandates: I.R.B. Review Criteria - Duration: 34:17.

[Woman 1] These protocols, you know these new investigators, especially these multiple-center

protocols, are really getting to be a problem.

I don't know if we should try and develop some sort of checklist or something like that,

but you know, the third time in it seems like, you know, we would not have to go through

so much.

Let's just take a look at this one one more time, and see, can we get it straightened

out.

[Woman 2] Sure, it's a multi-center protocol, you've seen it before.

We didn't get enough information human subjects part of the protocol itself, and the consent

form has some difficulties, too.

[Woman 1] Was it the language difficulty primarily, or—?

[Woman 2] There's a lot of scientific terms in it, and I believe the committee wouldn't

agree that there was enough description of the type and amount of blood that's going

to be drawn.

[Woman 1] Okay.

Does it give them an idea of how many visits they have to make?

[Woman 2] I think it's weak in that area, too.

[Woman 1] Okay, alright, okay.

What we gotta do—you talked to him?

[Woman 2] I talked with him several times, he's enthusiastic, he's a young investigator,

it's the first time he's tried to go through the committee.

I think right now, he doesn't understand what they want, and he's getting angry.

[Woman 1] Okay, so he's at the hostile level now, so—?

[Woman 2] Almost.

Nice guy, I mean, he's approachable.

[Woman 1] So you think I should call him, or—?

[Woman 2] I think that would be wise.

[Woman 1] Okay, alright, okay.

Let's look at this behavioral one that's a problem.

Okay.

This investigator wants to do this video tape, and I'm really concerned about, you know,

whether the people will know that he might use it for teaching purposes.

I don't want him to be tempted to do that.

[Woman 2] I think it's gonna be difficult to explain that to this fellow.

He's already upset because he feels that the IRB is interfering with his work.

He wants to go ahead, and— [Woman 1] So you're afraid if he tells them,

that he won't be able to get people to participate, or—?

[Woman 2] I think he's afraid of that, I don't think he wants the consent form to

be any longer than it is.

[Woman 1] Okay, alright.

[Woman 2] I also think…

[Man 1: Edmund Pellegrino] I'm Edmund Pellegrino, Director of the Kennedy Institute for Ethics

at Georgetown University, and professor of medicine.

The comments you just heard reflect some of the common confusions and misunderstandings

about the functions of an IRB and the criteria an IRB uses to evaluate a protocol.

These comments are typical of the viewers of the scientific community, of the people

who direct research, and even the general public.

The IRB is carrying out an important moral and social responsibility.

Scientific research involving human volunteers is permitted by society to advance medical

knowledge for the benefit of all.

But if we are to continue to have that privilege, investigators must always stress the safety

of the volunteer, and the evaluation of the benefits gained.

The process of review, therefore, is designed first, to protect the subject; second, to

provide guidance to the design and experiment that will produce the results being sought.

The IRB process also assures society that those who are knowledgeable, but not immediately

involved, will independently review the experiment, give it approval, and provide assurances that

society's moral mandate will be fulfilled.

What we will be seeing today is the review of a specific protocol designed to investigate

the effects of strenuous exercise on blood clotting.

The subjects will be normal volunteers.

They will be subjected to a series of examinations involving the drawing of blood, underwater

weighing, exercise on a treadmill, monitoring of cardiovascular and respiratory function.

The benefit to the volunteers will be minimal; by and large, the significance of the experiment

lies in the information it will provide for our understanding of normal exercise and its

effect on blood clotting and heart disease.

Let's look now at the criteria the IRB will be using to evaluate this protocol.

We want to examine the criteria themselves, the way they actually work, and what their

purposes are.

[music interlude] First, the risks to the subject must be reasonable,

in relationship to the benefits to the subject, and the importance of the knowledge to be

obtained by the research.

The risks themselves must be kept to the minimum possible to achieve the purposes of the research.

There must be an equitable selection of subjects.

Informed consent must be obtained and documented, to safeguard the right of the subject to accept

or refuse participation in the study.

The privacy and confidentiality of the subject must be safeguarded.

There must be a continuous monitoring of the data.

In January of 1981, the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services

issued the regulations that now govern the performance of research involving human volunteers,

the aim of the regulation being to protect those volunteers in the process of the clinical

investigations.

For the next few moments, let's look at these criteria in a little more detail.

First, we must look at the protocol.

It must be scientifically sound.

It must be properly designed so that the knowledge being sought will, in fact, be obtained, and

the methods will yield the knowledge that is sought, and the knowledge itself must have

an importance for understanding human health or human behavior.

We must always remember we are exposing human subjects to a certain number of risks.

We have to have some kind of a moral sanction to do that.

If we were to start out with protocol, for example, that had certain scientific weaknesses,

one that wasn't properly designed, then we'd be unnecessarily exposing people to

risks.

The Institutional Review Board has a responsibility to assure itself that, in fact, the criteria

of scientific probity have been fulfilled.

It needs evidence of that fact.

That, in itself, is also a moral requirement.

We have to look at the whole protocol from the subject's point of view as well.

If you were a subject, you would want to know if the information to be gained would be worthwhile

for yourself or for some other person.

The subject cannot give valid consent unless he feels the risks are worth running.

So, whether it's biomedical research or behavioral research, the first criterion is

exactly the same: important scientific knowledge must be obtained, and the generally accepted

canons of good scientific research must be fulfilled.

Now the second criterion.

What are the risks?

We have to admit that in every experiment involving humans, clinical and behavioral,

there is some risk of pain, discomfort, or even harm to the volunteer.

Every effort must be made to minimize risk.

Even though we have a very significant possibility of helping someone, we would have to assure

ourselves and the IRB that the investigator had taken every possible precaution to reduce

those risks to the minimum necessary to fulfill the purpose of the research.

Has the research, for example, incorporated safeguards to protect against the risks?

Insofar as possible, does the researcher intend to use procedures already indicated for the

individual subject's condition?

Selection of subjects is very important to avoid discrimination, or over-selection of

vulnerable subjects.

Here, the IRB should be interested in who is selected, and from what populations.

Are particularly the susceptible populations being chosen?

Prisoners, for example, students, older people, sick people, children, people with malignant

diseases, psychotic or emotionally disturbed persons, people for whom there are language

problems.

People who are particularly vulnerable must receive special protection.

Informed consent is the central ethical issue in experimentation.

Under no circumstances may we involve a human being in experimentation without his consent.

What do we mean by informed consent?

Informed consent means that the subject has to have a full disclosure of procedures, risks,

and benefits.

What is going to be done, for what reasons, what risks are there, what are the dangers,

the kind and the possibility of discomfort, the loss of time, perhaps even the loss of

dignity.

The benefits, the alternatives, all those circumstances that go along with being a research

subject, must also be made clear to the subject.

The investigator has the responsibility to ensure himself that the person does, in fact,

understand.

That means that we have to be dealing with competent individuals, or their legally authorized

representatives.

Persons who can perceive and process the information can make a decision which is their own, on

the basis of their own values, and express their decision clearly to us.

The decision must be free of coercion.

The individual truly must volunteer.

Throughout the entire experiment, subjects must know they have the right to discontinue,

to withdraw from the experiment at any time they wish to do so.

Once involved, subjects are sometimes afraid to withdraw.

The experiment has a certain momentum of its own; subjects need to be told that not only

do they have a right to refuse to participate, but they can withdraw at any time.

And they must be able to withdraw without being penalized for any agreed-upon fee or

associated treatment.

Society gives us a mandate to involve humans, because it's the only way we can find out

about the effects of new drugs, new treatments, or new psychiatric maneuvers of various kinds.

Those new procedures have to be tried out in some human being, somewhere, sometime.

Before we can involve someone as the subject of an investigation, we must be sure to respect

their rights as a person.

Under all circumstances, privacy and confidentiality must be stringently safeguarded.

This means that the IRB must assure itself, both from the protocol and from the questioning

of the investigators, that any information detected about the volunteers will be kept

confidential, and limited to those who are authorized to know.

And the subject must be told who it is that has access to this information.

That information might be damaging, for example, to the person's reputation, to his social

status, or even to his job.

The information itself might create anxiety for the subject.

Subject privacy and capacity to control his way of life must not, in any way, be compromised.

Throughout the entire experiment, the data must be monitored by the investigators or,

preferably, by some other group.

In the course of the experiment, it may become apparent that the treatment is so beneficial

that to continue to have controls would be doing a disservice to the controls.

Or the other way around: it may become evident that the drug is very toxic or ineffective.

Then it ought to be withdrawn before the study is finished.

In the case of behavioral research, emotional trauma to subjects may be such that the information,

even though significant, is not worth getting.

This means there must be continual feedback; every one of the criteria must be monitored

in the light of how the experiment is actually going.

Approval for an IRB is not unconditional.

These are the six criteria that form the basis upon which an IRB conducts its review.

Now, let's turn to an actual experiment.

We'll follow it from the time the investigators are preparing for IRB review, through to the

actual conduct of the experiment.

[Investigator 1] And then, if you take too much blood, it might affect the performance

of the athlete.

[Pellegrino] Now let's look at the way the research team prepares well in advance for

the IRB presentation.

[Investigator 2] … I think that's pretty clearly outlined.

But this raises a bigger issue altogether, about the consent form.

I based the consent form on, you know, on previous runs we've had, and I mean, is

it readable?

Is it understandable for the average subject who's coming in here?

[Investigator 3] Well I don't think that the average subject is going to know what

50 mLs is.

So I think if you could put it in terms of teaspoons, tablespoons, something like that,

then certainly a woman is going to be able to understand how much it is.

[Pellegrino] Here's another critical point, raised by one of the members of the research

team.

Are the terms understandable to the subject?

Great care must be taken to provide the information in terms of the educational background, the

language, and the culture of the volunteer.

This may be crucial when patients are the volunteering subjects.

They are particularly prone to confuse treatment and experiment.

Now let's look at the same protocol as it is presented to the IRB at the hospital sponsoring

the research.

Again, you'll see that the criteria serve to focus a thorough discussion.

[IRB Member 1] So, I wonder if you could start by giving us a breakdown on this proposal.

[Investigator 4] Okay, in this protocol, we're looking at how the fibrinolytic system – that

is, clot formation, clot dissolving – responds to acute exercise, and whether this response

differs in people of different conditioning levels.

Specifically, we're going to be look at women, and we're going to be looking at

highly trained women, moderately trained women, and then a group of untrained women.

We hope to do about 80 women in all, half on birth control pills and half not on pills,

since the pills seem to affect the clot formation system.

Essentially what we'll be asking the women to do is come in and take a maximal exercise

stress test, and we're going to be taking blood before and after this exercise bout.

And we'll also be monitoring several other factors – oxygen consumption, temperature

monitoring, and we'll have an EKG hooked up so that the people will be monitored continually

while they're up there.

This stress test will be under the supervision of a physician, and the physician will be

in the room conducting the test, and the physician draws the blood.

And then in addition, after that test is over, we will be weighing the subject under water

to determine her percent body fat.

[Pellegrino] These are the kinds of details that the IRB should ask for, because it must

make some judgement about whether the investigators' claims to protect the safety of the subject

are, in fact, true.

Reviewing what was written in the protocol is necessary to bring out possible contradictions.

Nothing should be left to chance.

[Investigator 4] We generally recruit subjects by posting announcements, say, within university,

or using in-house papers or in-house papers at other local universities who are not—occasionally

we've had an article in the newspaper soliciting subjects.

[IRB Member 2] Sue, in using humans in experimentations, it's very important that we completely be

aware of the benefit.

So not just the quality of the science, but whether or not it's worth—the purpose

of the experiment is worth the risk to the individual.

In this experiment, what exactly is the significance of the results you hope to obtain?

How important is clotting factors in people exposed to stress?

Is it really that clinically significant?

Health significant?

[Pellegrino] At this point, the IRB member is testing two things.

First, whether or not the design of this experiment is sufficiently rigorous, and the information

sufficiently significant, to warrant doing the experiment in the first place.

That is to say, to justify putting these subjects under the discomfort of a stress test.

The second thing is to determine whether or not there is some benefit to the subjects

from the information to be gained.

[Investigator 4] One of the underlying theories of—or, one of the current theories of how

atherosclerosis develops involves clotting, the laying down of small clots in the arteries.

And I think the feeling is that if exercise changes this clotting system, it may help

to prevent in the laying down of those clots, or maybe even help dissolving clots that have

already been laid down.

[IRB Member 1] Well, you said exercise, then, how much exercise do you—are they going

to take?

I mean, what are these highly conditioned women going to do?

[Investigator 4] Okay, the highly conditioned—well, first of all, let me say that the stress test

is what's called volitional max, which means the subject herself determines when the test

stops.

We ask the woman to go as long as she possibly can, because we are looking for a max test.

We want an indication of her maximum capacity for exercise.

But on the other hand, she's the one who determines when that point comes, assuming

we don't see any reason to stop the test.

So that it is volitional.

[IRB Member 3] When are the participants informed that they can stop the test?

[Pellegrino] Two very important points are being explored here.

The first is the assurance the subject can, at any time, ask for discontinuance of the

test.

Whether because of discomfort or simply because of anxiety.

And the second point is to examine whether or not the elements of informed consent have

indeed been provided for.

Even before the subject agreed to participate, she should know that she can withdraw at any

time.

How does the investigator respond?

[Investigator 4] Actually, she's told at least twice.

The first time is in—when I have an initial sort of interview with her, usually over the

phone, and I'm explaining the entire protocol procedure to her.

I will tell her in that that she may stop at any time.

She's essentially the one that determines when the max point occurs, and then she will

be reminded of that again, before she gets on the treadmill.

[IRB Member 4] Where is the test being conducted?

[Investigator 4] In our lab, in the university here.

[IRB Member 4] So not in the hospital?

[Investigator 4] That's right.

[IRB Member 5] What kind of equipment is available in the lab in case of an immediate emergency,

such as when you're drawing blood or during the stress test?

[Pellegrino] Here we have another repetition of the criterion of safety.

To determine what measures are available in case of a mishap.

Are there safeguards, and are they sufficient to minimize the risk to the subject?

[Investigator 4] We have a crash cart which includes a defibrillator and emergency drugs.

And the physician is present, supervising the test, and then everyone in the lab has

been trained in CPR, so we're all capable of doing emergency resuscitation.

[IRB Member 6] How much blood is going to be drawn?

And how often is it going to be drawn?

[Investigator 4] We have the subject seated in a blood-drawing chair, essentially, prior

to the test, and that's where the initial pre-exercise sample is drawn.

And then after she runs, she sat back down again, in that chair, and draw another.

[IRB Member 6] How much?

How much blood will be drawn in each sitting?

[Investigator 4] Each draw is 50 cc's, so that the total is around 150, which is about

a quarter of what you would give if you were to give a blood donation.

[IRB member 7] Somehow, the way you just said that, it came through to me as more blood

being taken than I was aware of when I read this study, and I identify from that where

if I were a subject, I think—possible that I might have missed it, too.

[Investigator 4] I generally tell the women, when I'm explaining to them, I say almost

exactly what I just said then, that it's about a quarter of the amount—the total

amount is about a quarter of what you would give if you went to give a blood donation.

So then it's— [IRB Member 7] Okay, I wonder from that, though,

if it shouldn't be – as opposed to being dependent on, you know, you could get sick

or something, someone has to take over and then it's not there.

I wonder if shouldn't be in the consent form, in that sort of clarity.

[IRB Member 8] Well I second your thought, Randy, because I just saw it as three little

blobs about that big.

[IRB Member 9] Yes, yes.

[IRB Member 8] Three times.

[Pellegrino] At this point, the IRB member is pursuing the question of a proper consent

form, and assuring himself and the board that it has been properly executed.

But over and above that, the IRB member is making a contribution to the way the consent

should be obtained.

The IRB review process is not simply a judicial one, or a legal one.

It also provides actual participation in improving protocol.

So as you can see, the IRB can be a help to the investigator, as well as to the subject.

[IRB Member 9] Who's responsible for withdrawing the blood from the participants?

[Investigator 4] In our lab, it's usually actually a physician who does the blood drawing.

[IRB Member 8] So there was a lot of concern here about women and the stress test.

There were some male studies I notice also, and was there anything adverse that came up

in those studies that would help us here?

[Investigator 4] I think there was—well, let me first say I was not here at the time

that study was done.

But I think there was one incident where a person collapsed after having run on a treadmill

during that study.

And I believe that he was able—he was resuscitated in the lab, and that we didn't have to call

in any emergency equipment.

So that's kind of encouraging, and it indicates to me that we have the capability to handle

that kind of emergency in the lab.

[Pellegrino] At this point we can see how important careful and consistent probing of

the protocol can be.

The response, in this case, indicates that one patient actually had collapsed while on

the treadmill test.

If one listens to the language of the investigator, we even hear the word "resuscitated."

Up to this point, the full extent of the danger to the subject had not yet been elaborated.

The investigator is conscientious, but the IRB process has served to uncover important

information of significance to the subject.

[IRB Member 3] So I was wondering if you could tell me, I know some of the women are going

to be taking oral contraceptives, but are you checking as to whether they're taking

any other medication?

[Investigator 4] We specifically ask and check to be sure.

We eliminate everybody who's on anything other than oral contraceptives, and that includes

even aspirin.

Well, particularly aspirin, because of its effects on the clotting system.

So we do check for that and we do eliminate subjects on any kind of medication.

[IRB Member 2] Could you tell me just what is being done to protect the confidentiality

of the participants in this?

Suppose, for example, the testing comes up with some information that the volunteer would

rather not have known.

What kind of protection is built into the system?

[Pellegrino] Here, we have an exploration of still another criterion: the protection

of the privacy of the subject, and the confidentiality of the information obtained during the investigation.

Information can be damaging to the patient if it is revealed when it should not be, or

if it is withheld when the subject should know about some unsuspected disorder.

[Investigator 4] The only people that have access to an individual's files are our

lab group and the individual themselves.

And we would not release that information without her consent.

[IRB Member 2] Are the files coded, or do they have people's names on them?

[Investigator 4] In the past, they've had people's names on them.

However, recently, we've started coding so that they are assigned numbers now.

So that the person couldn't just walk in, rifle through the files, and find the one

they were looking for.

[IRB Member 1] If, as a result of this study, you uncover some completely unexpected information

– for example, say as a result of the blood count, you estimated that the patient might

have leukemia, just to give example – what do you do about that?

[Investigator 4] Dr. Ferguson would inform the person of that finding, and then I think

recommend that they see their own physician.

Or, if they needed recommendation of someone to go to, we could supply them with that.

[IRB Member 7] I think that when people volunteer, they should know what they're going to get

out of the experiment.

And in this case, for the subjects who aren't runners or volunteering for that reason, they're

going to volunteer so that they can get cleared and say "I'm okay to go running now."

And it's unclear from this whether such persons will have grounds for being cleared

to go running, or whether they won't, and I think they should know that.

[Pellegrino] The question of benefit to the subject is an important one.

It should be inquired into closely, as it is being done here.

A subject might volunteer for an experiment simply out of a feeling of beneficence for

his fellow human beings, even if he or she receives no personal benefit.

[Investigator 4] If that is what the person's intent, in coming in to take the test, would

be for us to give the data to their physician and let them discuss with their physician

what kind of exercise they wanted to undertake based on the results of this test.

And I'd certainly hope that their physician would caution them about how reliable it is

to interpret this test as meaning that it's alright for them to start exercising.

I don't think anybody can give them 100% assurance on that.

[IRB Member 2] So do you have any personal hesitancy about being a volunteer for this

study?

[Investigator 4] No.

As a matter of fact, I was a subject in a pilot study.

So I don't have any problems with the protocol, although I realize from my own experience

in the lab, that sort of the more I do as a subject, the less any of it bothers me.

So I try to keep that in mind when I'm talking to people who aren't routinely subjects

in protocols of any kind.

No, I wouldn't have any problem taking part in this study.

[Pellegrino] There are some who would insist that the investigator always subject himself

or herself to the proposed procedure in a pilot test.

It is very reassuring that the investigator did just this, and experienced some of the

discomforts the subjects would undergo.

Having seen the IRB during part of its deliberation over this protocol, we might now move on and

look at how some of the concerns of the board are carried out during the actual experiment.

Here we have an opportunity to see the actual process, obtaining informed consent.

You can observe two key elements: the contractual or content aspects of consent – providing

the information, getting a signature – but also, the investigator is providing the subject

an opportunity to ask questions.

[Subject 1] So the form doesn't really go into the actual risks that would be involved.

I was wondering if you could tell me a little bit more about that.

[Investigator 4] Okay.

The risks range all the way from some relatively minor things, like maybe twisting your ankle

on the treadmill, losing your balance and falling, or we've even had—one woman had

an allergic reaction to the electrodes on her chest.

So they range from that kind of thing all the way up to possibility of heart attack

or some underlying heart disease showing up while you're on the treadmill.

[Pellegrino] The investigator is elaborating, not just providing information on a yes or

no basis.

The interaction allows the investigator to interject into the proceeding a moral quality

and assurance that, beyond the signature, there is indeed understanding.

Here we see the actual conduct of the experiment.

Even though consent has been obtained, the investigator reassures himself.

He checks again.

He wants to be sure he has provided all the information necessary to protect his subject.

It's conceivable that between the time the consent was given and the experiment actually

carried out, some change may have occurred.

This process of rechecking is very important to actually carrying out the protocol.

[Investigator 2] Okay, I don't think there are any problems.

I think we can get started now.

I need to get some baseline blood now at this point.

[Subject 1] Well in terms of the amount of blood you'll be drawing, do you think that

in any way would affect my performance on the treadmill, or how long I could stay on?

[Investigator 2] Well, I have no way of knowing that one way or the other, but because the

protocol is really designed to study effects of exercise on blood, I must take the blood,

and we've— [Pellegrino] Notice how important it was,

that even though the subject has given consent, new questions arise.

Reassurance is necessary.

The need to keep the subject informed is not a one-time event.

[Investigator 1] Okay.

Now the purpose of this is we want to measure your percent body fat, and fat doesn't weigh

anything underwater.

And so the heavier you are on the scale, the less percent body fat you'll be, because

we're just measuring your lean body mass on the scale.

So you want to be as heavy as possible, okay?

[Pellegrino] In this experiment, we're dealing with normal volunteers.

It's even more important to keep informing sick patients of what is happening to them.

They, after all, are more vulnerable, more dependent on the physician, and less apt to

bring up the kinds of questions that this normal subject raises with ease.

[Investigator 2] Now you've got a lot left in you.

You're doing real well.

In about 30 seconds, we're going to go up a little higher and a little faster.

It's still going to be a walk for you.

If you feel more comfortable jogging, go right ahead, but it should be still at a pace that

you can keep up with it simply by walking.

Do you feel alright?

[Investigator 4] Yeah, you're doing fine.

[Pellegrino] Here we are observing another criterion, the provision for constant monitoring

to ensure adequate safeguards for the volunteer.

Not only monitoring of the physiological data, but of the subject's responses.

This is important, so that if any difficulty should occur, the experiment could be stopped

before doing any harm to the volunteer.

[Investigator 2] Okay, why don't you go, but you've got a little bit left in you.

[Investigator 4] Hang on there, next click.

You're doing great.

[Investigator 2] Next click, go one more after that.

Want to try?

No?

[Investigator 4] Hang in there, okay?

[Investigator 2] Is that it?

[Investigator 4] Hang on and straddle if you want.

[Investigator 2] Grab the [inaudible] and just straddle it.

[Investigator 4] That's it.

Great.

Okay.

[Investigator 2] Hang on.

That's 10 points—clicks.

[Investigator 4] Okay, now what you want to do is step back over the blue cable just like

we did before.

Back down here, yeah.

Okay, great job, good job.

[Investigator 4] Yeah, good job.

Hold real still, now.

We'll get another EKG.

[Pellegrino] We've just seen how an IRB functions.

It looked at the way some of the criteria are actually applied by one IRB.

The criteria that we've reviewed are essential.

If, in our democratic society, we are to be permitted to continue to ask human beings

to participate in investigative procedures – which, in the long run, affect all of

us – if we are to do this, then we must be particularly careful to protect the rights

and the dignity of the volunteers.

The purpose of the IRB and the regulations that go with it, are not, thinking back to

the opening of our program, a hindrance to research.

They are not meant to stand in the way of good science; they are motivated by the moral

obligation that an investigator imposes on himself, when he undertakes to acquire knowledge

from other human beings, putting them by that fact at some risk, and causing them some discomfort.

The ends are worthwhile.

The means must be very carefully scrutinized.

That's why we need to know why the information is worth having, we must know that the scientists

who are doing it have put a great deal of effort into designing the experiment so that

it can be useful.

That we've done every attempt to minimize the risks, that we've taken every step to

be sure that the subject knows exactly what's going to happen, knows the risks that he or

she runs.

To be sure that the investigators continue monitoring their experiments.

These are the minimum requirements in a humane society for the continuance of something vital

to that society: the acquisition of knowledge, knowledge that can be a benefit for all of

us.

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