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	Tab 5 - Pain & Distress
		Stress is not always damaging to the animal and certain types of mild stress such as the introduction of novel stimuli into the animal's environment and exposure to novel handling methods may be beneficial to the animal by teaching it to adapt to changes which are very likely to occur from time to time.
		Distress: An inferred aversive state based on a variety of behavioral, physiologic, and psychologic indices of an animal's inability to adapt to the effect of stressors and the attendant stress.
		Assessment of pain must be based primarily on observations of abnormal behavioral and physiologic responses that demonstrate anxiety and fear (e.g., distress vocalization, struggling, stumbling, escape activity, defensive aggression or freezing, muscular tremors, pupillary dilation, salivation, reflex urination and defecation, panting and sweating, and tachycardia).
	oacu.od.nih.gov /ac_cbt/tab5paindistress.html (1303 words)

	Distress (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Distress is a 1995 science fiction novel by Greg Egan.
		It describes the political intrigue surrounding a mid-twenty-first century physics conference, at which is to be presented a unified Theory of Everything.
		The novel is prefaced by a poem, Technolibération, by the fictional character Muteba Kazadi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Distress_(novel) (278 words)

	Distress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Distress is also used by Search and Rescue services to describe targets in adverse or critical conditions.
		Distressing in woodworking and the decorative arts is the art of making furniture and household objects look old.
		In law, distress, or distraint, is the act of seizing goods to compel payment, or the goods thus seized.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Distress (171 words)

	Distress: A Novel
		The novel doesn't speculate as much about TOE itself, but about the social and psychological and even ethical responses of it, and it does so by introducing a pseudo-scientific religion which glorifies and demonises the descoverer of the theory.
		Distress is a novel of ideas, and thus it functions brilliantly.
		Distress is not only the best of Egan's novels that I've yet read, but one of the most inventive and accomplished sf novels I've read in many years.
	www.xmlwriter.org /books/reviews/0061052647-2.html (1307 words)

	Teaching American Indian Authors, 1772 - 1968 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The novel portrays the anti-Mexican prejudices of gold-hungry Anglos eager to disposess Mexicans of their land—a situation all too familiar to Ridge, whose Cherokee people were forced by greedy whites to leave their Georgia homelands for Oklahoma.
		His knowledge of the modern novel was stimulated by study at the University of Montana and abroad at Oxford and Grenoble universities.
		The ethnohistory of the Salish is central to McNickle's novel.
	www.mla.org /ade/bulletin/N075/075039.htm (3186 words)

	NOVA Express - Reviews
		Distress is not only the best of Egan's novels, but one of the most inventive and accomplished science fiction novels in many years.
		By the end of the novel, Rez and the idoru are building an island of their own with illegal nanotechnology, and, as far as everyone else is concerned, this is just spiffy, even though no one seems to understand why they're doing this.
		This novel is unlike anything else in recent memory; the quality of Pollack's dialog, her finely polished prose, the tightness of the plot, and the charisma and believability of her characters place her in a class with Jonathan Carroll and Joe R. Lansdale.
	www.sflit.com /novaexpress/15/reviews-15.html (11697 words)

	Kathleen Ann Goonan reviews DISTRESS
		DISTRESS is no exception, but here, in contrast to QUARANTINE and PERMUTATION CITY, which narrowly focussed on one person's fate or thoughts (despite the fact that each scenario did involve and affect "everyone") he has truly included all humanity and used the energy of that inclusion to bring this novel to a transcendent level.
		DISTRESS opens with a deeply horrendous scene--the temporary resurrection of a murder victim, using the latest technology, in order to record a first-person verbal description of the perpetrator.
		DISTRESS is the sum of many parts each rich enough in its own right to yield a novel, yet used gracefully and powerfully to support an edifice as unique, new, and rewarding as Stateless itself.
	www.goonan.com /distress.html (1347 words)

	Novel System for Automatic Pavement Distress Detection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In conventional visual and manual pavement distress analysis approaches inspectors traverse roads and stop and measure distress objects when they are found.
		In this paper, a new pavement distress image-enhancement algorithm and a new analysis and classification algorithm are studied.
		The new pavement distress classification algorithm builds a data structure storing the geometry of the skeleton obtained from the thresholded image.
	www.pubs.asce.org /WWWdisplay.cgi?9802849 (160 words)

	Asexuality
		In other creeds, children are often considered a gift of God that should not be refused, and/or a means of spreading religion.
		In fiction, John Braine's novel The Jealous God (1964) is a good example of sex mainly seen as a sin.
		On the other hand, in his science fiction novel Distress[?] (1995), Greg Egan imagines a world where "asex" is one out of five or seven acknowledged gender settings.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/as/Asexism.html (181 words)

	Distress
		Distress is also used by Search and Rescue services to describe targets in adverse or critical conditions.
		Distressing in woodworking and the decorative arts is the art of making furniture and household objects look old.
		In law, distress, or distraint, is the act of seizing goods to compel payment, or the goods thus seized.
	www.buzznet.com /tags/distress (252 words)

	A Comparison between Laughing and Sentimental Comedy
		The pompous train, the swelling phrase, and the unnatural rant are displaced for that natural portrait of human folly and frailty, of which all are judges, because all have sat for the picture.
		Comedy is defined by Aristotle to be a picture of the frailties of the lower part of mankind, to distinguish it from tragedy, which is an exhibition of the misfortunes of the great.
		Distress, therefore, is the proper object of tragedy, since the great excite our pity by their all; but not equally so of comedy, since the actors employed in it are originally so mean that they sink but little by their fall.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/goldsmth/theatre (1246 words)

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		Whereas stress is good and welcome, distress is the killer that needs to be managed well, lest it should lead to disease and disability.
		The distress that the Yangste Valley peasant had in the times past of plagues and pestilence, as also the predation that killed our forest-dweller forefathers were as bad as what happens today, may be even worse.
		Distress of all kinds could be managed with the tranquil mind.
	www.bmhegde.com /stress.html (1786 words)

	Amazon.com: Distress: A Novel: Books: Greg Egan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The novel doesn't speculate as much about TOE itself, but about the social and psychological and even ethical responses of it, and it does so by introducing a pseudo-scientific religion which glorifies and demonises the descoverer of the theory.
		Distress is a novel of ideas, and thus it functions brilliantly.
		Distress is not only the best of Egan's novels that I've yet read, but one of the most inventive and accomplished sf novels I've read in many years.
	www.amazon.com /Distress-Novel-Greg-Egan/dp/0061052647 (2401 words)

	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Community Oncology and Prevention Trials Research Group
		Although this distress is relatively transient, research on long-term psychosocial outcomes in BMT suggests that it may be associated with later disturbances in the social functioning, self-esteem, and general emotional well-being of survivors, as well as with an increased risk of post-traumatic stress symptoms in survivors and their parents.
		Novel interventions to reduce the stresses of BMT are needed, but few empirical studies of psychosocial interventions during BMT have been reported, and those have involved only adult patients.
		The intervention is complementary in nature, designed to increase the experience of positive affect and reduce somatic distress and mood disturbance, that is, to improve overall child well being.
	www.cancer.gov /PREVENTION/coptrg/supportivecare/projects/phipps.html (491 words)

	history
		novel: "Fictional prose narrative of considerable length and some complexity that deals imaginatively with human experience through a connected sequence of events involving a group of persons in a specific setting" (novel).
		Although there is no way to credit the ‘first’ novel, however there are at least three “groups of works” which can be designated as the novels “predecessors” (Stoddard 30).
		Novels consisted of stories that no longer fit into any other category existing in the literary genre of the time period.
	m.faculty.umkc.edu /mallinickd/romanticnovel/whipple/historya.html (497 words)

	Distress \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Distress, a novel whose central action is the formulation of a watertight Theory of Everything, is no exception.
		In the end, of course, Distress is speculative fiction concerned with ideas, and like much science fiction the characters seem a little shallow, the situations a little too pat.
		Distress is sweeping, epic science fiction at its most basic and most absorbing.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/19260 (308 words)

	Book Information: Distress :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		Quantum physics and the Theory of Everything lie at the heart of an unputdownable thriller.
		'Distress' is an exploration of the moral dilemmas facing one man that will have repercussions for the whole of mankind.
		For in the Theory of Everything that Violet puts forward lies the key to the horror of Distress...
	www.iblist.com /book3389.htm (162 words)

	Into the Wilderness - New York Times
		His first, ''Continent,'' which was published in 1986, is really less a novel than a collection of seven stories, all set in an imagined world of which the author has mastered the geography, the botany and the anthropology.
		The world of ''Signals of Distress'' is a remote fishing village on the west coast of England where, in 1836, a ship runs aground and, among other strange events, a herd of cows is rescued and a fl slave escapes.
		Indeed ''Signals of Distress,'' with its central rock, never to be restored to its original place, resembles that novel in containing a huge but collapsible phallic object.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E3DD173AF931A25757C0A96E958260 (496 words)

	From the New York Times:
		Signals of Distress," a 1995 novel by Jim Crace, is an unlikely candidate for adaptation to the stage.
		The novel is set in 1830 in an isolated and weather-buffeted town on the coast of northern England, a place so often fogbound that it seems literally hidden from the world.
		When a rugged storm beaches two ships on the outskirts of Wherrytown, bringing to a wary community a self-important and foolishly pedantic businessman from London and a boatload of American sailors, what results is an eccentric comedy of manners, though with several consequences that are not comic at all.
	www.highmountainranch.com /varner_kevin_review.html (797 words)

	Medline ® Abstract for Reference 6,9-11 of 'Novel therapies for the acute respiratory distress syndrome'
		Phospholipids from patients with respiratory failure were similar to those from respiratory distress syndrome in the newborn.
		On the other hand, in adult respiratory distress syndrome, the abnormality in surfactant phospholipids may last for weeks and in most cases is associated with low phosphatidylinositol, low phosphatidylglycerol, and low plasma myoinositol.
		Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is characterized by lung injury and damage to the alveolar type II cells.
	utdol.com /utd/content/abstract.do?topicKey=cc_medi/18425&refNum=6,9-11 (1115 words)

	Distress: A Novel
		On the island, a convention is gathering to decide on the new "Theory of Everything" which is supposed to be as revolutionary as the Theory of Relativity.
		Egan is a good storyteller and "Distress," like most of the best science fiction, is brimming with unusual ideas.
		In "Distress", Greg Egan has provided a thought-provoking vision of the future, and a chilling view of the essence of reality.
	www.xmlwriter.org /books/reviews/0061052647-3.html (1006 words)

	American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : Position Statements
		The evaluation of potential pain or distress is complex because thresholds and manifestations of pain and distress vary among species and among individuals within a species.
		The determination of what constitutes pain or distress in animals is further complicated by the fact that there are no universally agreed upon criteria for assessing or determining what is, or is not, painful or distressful to an animal.
		The alleviation of pain and distress is often a diverse task that may require drugs, adjustments to environmental enrichment, modifications in research protocols and other appropriate and humane strategies.
	www.aalas.org /association/position_statements.asp (5084 words)

	TIME.com: DAMSEL IN DISTRESS -- Feb. 19, 1996 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Since she turned in two novels, A Ruling Passion and Hell Hath No Fury, as her contract stipulated, Random House owed her the rest of the $4 million.
		The rise of the celebrity novel--of books that may or may not have been written by the famous names on the covers--can be traced back to the mid-1960s.
		Other novels followed from her teeming pen, and they were successfully marketed not so much as new books but as new Jackie Susanns.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,984142,00.html (808 words)

	Greg Burch's Recommended Science Fiction
		Goonan uses a few contrivances to make her story work that require a little stretching of credulity, but once one accepts her premises, the story is wel constructed and, unlike too much science fiction, well driven by character.
		A "prequel" to the other two novels by Goonan I read last month, I finally became disenchanted with the narrative style and especially the plot devices she creates to make a story possible in the context of the powerful technologies she is exploring.
		First of three novels about the colonization and terraforming of Mars; very good descriptions of the Martian surface as it is transformed in the terraforming process; Robinson misses the boat on nanotech.
	users.aol.com /gburch3/booksfi.html (1454 words)

	goonan
		The fragments of meaning are tableaus freed from time which can be accessed and rearranged according to the desires of the reader; shuffled to create new motives for the actions of the characters as well as different outcomes to their philosophical dilemmas, which are quite real in terms of affecting them in life-and-death ways.
		It is the one literature that takes into account the fact that we live in an age technologically quite different than that of our grandparents and postulates possible differences that might change humanity in the future--including changes in consciousness.
		In Distress: A Novel, [19]Greg Egan envisions a change in consciousness which might emerge were we to actually understand physical reality in its totality via a Theory of Everything, and his characters, and thus the reader, experiences this change--a good example of the power of literature.
	www.uiowa.edu /~iareview/mainpages/new/aug05/goonan6.html (1201 words)

	Hallway (Villa Diodati) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Gothic Novel is characterized by several elements.
		In addition, a supernatural being or inexplicable events pervade gothic plot lines and are further enhanced by the use of highly emotional characters or narrators.
		Furthermore women play a distinct role as the "damsel in distress." A lonely, pensive, and oppressed heroine is often one of the central figures in the novel (for example Elizabeth in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein) while a metonymy of gloom and horror pervade the novel's plot.
	www.rc.umd.edu:7000 /6148 (118 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Distress / Greg Egan
		With comforting myths stripped away by the explanatory power of science, many people are driven to despair, believing — unjustly — that the light of scientific scrutiny is a cold light that renders life itself bleak and meaningless.
		He rejects an assignment to cover a growing outbreak of bizarre psychological trauma called Distress in favor of what he thinks will be a cushy, high-profile job, interviewing the world's leading physicist at a conference where she is about to present her completed Theory of Everything (or TOE for short).
		Distress contains some of the most eloquent passages I have ever read extolling the need for science and rationalism in a world frought with ideologies, beliefs, and prejudices.
	www.sfreviews.net /distress.html (840 words)

	Isobel Grundy
		Now, there are adult novels of this date in which female characters are punished just as savagely as that for failing to obey the rules, and the rules did include a prohibition of displays of physical energy.
		Barbauld presents a gradual feminization of the novel: eight of her twenty-one novelists are women, and they cluster towards the modern end of the span.
		The feminine novel which Barbauld admires, however, is the sentimental novel of “distress.” Men, she says, prefer to read and write fictional action, satire, humour; women prefer sentiment.
	www.jasna.org /persuasions/printed/number15/grundy.htm (5950 words)

	Special Circumstances: Quarantine by Greg Egan
		When the sf backbone is being laid out in the novel, Greg Egan has a tendency to `possess' any convenient character to lay out the details of the science and the speculations based on the science.
		His later novel "Distress" re-treads many of the same ideas, but also explores in detail the anthropic principle, but is in many ways less successful than this novel.
		Despite this, the events towards the end are so fantastic are contrary to explanations of exponential growth early in the novel that it seems to me that Greg Egan was playing fast and loose with the facts to keep the plot moving.
	www.cs.sfu.ca /~anoop/weblog/archives/000143.html (586 words)

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