The soda solution

Soda battles

infancy and causes severe vision loss, especially at night. An estimated 2,000 Americans have the form of the disease they targeted, Bennett said. But other reports were not satisfied with a mere 2,000 potential beneficiaries. New hope is offered to “millions affected by eye diseases” said the Independent. This was “hundreds of thousands” in the Los Angeles Times. But the LA Times also highligh...

Large-sized soda ban as an alternative to soda tax.

This Note examines New York City's Sugary Drinks Portion Cap Rule (Soda Ban), which was originally set to become effective March 12, 2013. The New York County Supreme Court's decision in New York Statewide Coalition of Hispanic Chambers of Commerce v. New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene suspended the Soda Ban on March 11, 2013. The First Department of the Appellate Division of...

Embodying and Improving SODA

We implemented variations on the Self-Organizing Distinctive State Abstraction model for robot state-discretization and task-learning in a Khepera robot. We conclude that hill-climbing as implementd in [5] is detrimental in embodied robots. Because the ultimate goal of developmental systems is intelligent, embodied robots, we believe that implementation in physical robots is an important test o...

The larynx and caustic soda ingestion.

Regarding the Action of Hydrate of Soda,

IN No. 1, Vol. III., of the JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY Dr. Gaskell records some experiments regarding the respective action of antiarin, hydrate of soda, muscarin, and digitalin on the ventricle of the frog's heart. In this paper I record some experiments on the action of soda, ammonia, and potash on the same structure. In most respects my experiments with soda hydrate agree with those of Dr. Gaskel...