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nextmindseducation · 2 months
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Boost Your Concentration and Ace Your Exams: Powerful Study Strategies
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Conquering exams is no small feat. It requires dedication, perseverance, and, most importantly, concentration. But let's face it, staying focused amidst distractions and mounting pressure can be a real challenge.
The good news is, there are powerful strategies you can employ to increase concentration in studies and boost your exam performance. Here are some effective tips to get you started:
1. Find your focus zone. Identify an environment conducive to concentrated studying. This could be a quiet corner in your room, a library, or even a coffee shop with minimal background noise.
2. Plan and prioritize. Create a study schedule that breaks down the material into manageable chunks and allocates time for each section. Prioritize the most challenging topics first when your concentration is at its peak.
3. Silence the distractions. Put your phone on silent mode, close unnecessary browser tabs, and inform others not to disturb you during your study sessions. Utilize tools like website blockers to minimize online distractions.
4. Take mindful breaks. Concentrating for extended periods can be counterproductive. Schedule short breaks every 45-60 minutes to refresh your mind and prevent burnout.
5. Employ active learning techniques. Don't just passively read the material. Actively engage with it by taking notes, summarizing key points, or creating flashcards. This will help you retain information more effectively and improve focus.
6. Get enough sleep and exercise. A well-rested and physically active mind is better equipped to concentrate. Aim for 7-8 hours of sleep each night and incorporate regular exercise into your routine.
7. Reward yourself. Set small milestones and reward yourself upon achieving them. This will help you stay motivated and increase concentration throughout the study process.
8. Seek help when needed. Don't hesitate to seek help from teachers, tutors, or classmates if you encounter any difficulties. Asking questions and clarifying doubts can significantly improve your understanding and boost concentration.
By incorporating these powerful study strategies, you can increase concentration in studies, enhance your learning, and ultimately ace your exams with flying colors!
Remember, consistent practice is key to mastering these techniques and achieving academic success.Visit our website at Nextminds for more tips and resources to help you excel in your studies!
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snnumntik · 11 months
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whatifstories67 · 1 year
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How to improve concentration and focus while studying
Do you often struggle to stay focused while studying? Do you feel like you need more mental energy to complete your assignments? If so, then you're not alone. Concentration and focus are essential elements of successful studying, but they can be difficult to maintain. Fortunately, there are some simple strategies you can use to improve your concentration and focus while studying. In this blog post, we'll take a look at some of the best tips and techniques for improving your concentration and focus while studying. With these strategies, you'll be able to stay motivated and finish your work on time.
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Understand how your brain works
Having an understanding of how the brain works can be a great way to help you focus and improve your concentration when studying. The brain is complex, and understanding it can help us better understand our own thought processes. 
The human brain is divided into three main areas: the cerebral cortex, the limbic system, and the brainstem. The cerebral cortex is responsible for most of our higher-level thinking, such as planning and problem solving. The limbic system regulates emotion and motivation, while the brainstem is responsible for basic bodily functions. 
These three parts work together to help us think and function effectively. Knowing how they work can help us figure out how to use them to our advantage when studying. 
The prefrontal cortex is a key part of the brain that helps us with focus and concentration. It’s responsible for working memory, which allows us to remember short-term information while also making decisions. When this area of the brain is active, it helps us stay focused on the task at hand. 
Our brains also use dopamine to reward us for completing tasks and encourage us to keep going. When we focus on a task, dopamine is released in the prefrontal cortex and helps us stay motivated and concentrated. 
By understanding how the brain works, we can make conscious efforts to focus and improve our concentration. Taking breaks, setting realistic goals, creating a positive study environment, using memory tricks, and getting enough sleep are all ways to boost concentration and focus.
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lifetimeyogi · 4 months
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Does Yoga Help with Focus and Concentration? Top 7 Yogasanas to Sharpen Your Brain
Introduction – Does Yoga Help with Focus and Concentration? Top 7 Yogasanas to Sharpen Your Brain In the fast-paced world we live in, maintaining focus and concentration is crucial for success in various aspects of life. While there are numerous strategies to enhance cognitive abilities, one practice that has gained significant attention is yoga. This ancient discipline not only promotes…
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youngks-smile · 2 months
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What I Want You To Know About Long COVID
Well lads, I've been suffering from Long COVID for over a year now. My life is at a complete standstill. I'm 25 years old and I'm too sick to go back to school, I can't work, I had to move back in with my parents and I'm still stuck here.
Here are just a few things I wish people knew about Long COVID, including things I didn't know myself until I got it.
COVID destroys your immune system. Yes, even if you don't have Long COVID. Are you getting sick more often now? When you get sick, does it last longer? There are many studies showing that COVID causes t cell depletion, even in mild COVID cases! T cells are how your body remembers how to fight off infections you've had before so losing those cells? Bad news.
Your initial infection can be mild and you can still get Long COVID. Right from Yale Medicine, "Most people with Long COVID had mild acute COVID." (This is also a good link for a basic Long COVID overview).
There can be a gap of time between when you "get better" from the initial COVID infection to the onset of Long COVID symptoms. Some people get sick with an initial COVID infection and never get better. Some get better and then weeks or months later start developing Long COVID symptoms. Long COVID symptoms can even fluctuate over time, can go away for months and then suddenly come back.
So many people have Long COVID and don't realize it. Do you feel more tired lately but no matter how much you sleep, nothing helps? Is it harder to concentrate at work or school? Can you just not think like you used to? You could have Long COVID and not even know it. Even mild post-COVID symptoms are still Long COVID.
COVID can do anything to your body. Long COVID has over 200 recognized symptoms and can affect basically any part or system of your body. There is no one mechanism or cause of Long COVID which unfortunately also means there's no one cure either.
The effects of COVID are cumulative. Each COVID reinfection increases your chances of developing Long COVID. COVID is also affecting your body in other ways, yes, even if you're otherwise young and healthy! "Repeat COVID-19 infections increase risk of organ failure, death".
Once you have Long COVID, repeat COVID infections will make your symptoms worse. "80% [of Long COVID patients] saw their symptoms worsen [from reinfection]. In 60% of people who were in recovery or remission from Long COVID, reinfection caused a recurrence of Long COVID."
There is a lot more I want to say about Long COVID but I want to keep this post at least somewhat manageable to read. Like how when COVID is contracted during pregnancy, those COVID-exposed fetuses have a 6.3-fold increased risk of motor developmental delays, or that another study found 50% of babies exposed to COVID in utero had developmental delays.
You need to keep caring about COVID, for others around you and also for yourself even if you're "healthy". Everyone is at risk. And don't forget 40-60% of COVID infections are asymptomatic, which is why masking even if you feel fine is crucial. The only way right now to not get Long COVID is to not get COVID in the first place. It's not too late, if you've stopped masking it's never too late to start again! I know it's easy to get distracted by things in your life that seem more real than the possibility of getting sick some time in the future, and the peer pressure to not mask can be intense. But it only feels less real or less important until your entire life is having Long COVID. Trust me.
I know this is a complicated issue, many people can't afford to stay home when sick even if they want to because of their jobs, there are disgusting policies trying to ban wearing masks, but please if you can. Keep masking. Masking works, masking saves lives.
This post got a bit longer than I wanted so below the cut is a non-exhaustive list of my Long COVID symptoms and some of my experiences as one of the "healthy young people" who got "unlucky". cw brief mention of suicidal ideation.
Welcome to the Thunderdome that is my body with Long COVID. Keep in mind these are just my experiences and symptoms, Long COVID can cause any range of symptoms at varying severities.
Dysautonomia: Exercise intolerance, Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM), fatigue, and heat intolerance. What do those things mean? Here's some specific examples. Absolutely terrible circulation I am so cold all the time but also, if I get a little too warm I will pass out. Eating hot food makes my heart rate spike, I sweat, my body feels heavy. Blood pooling and pins and needles in my feet when I walk. Don't even think about exercising past walking, it's impossible. I used to work out an hour a day 4 times a week and now walking up one flight of stairs makes my heart pound and I can't breathe. Can't take even just warm showers anymore or I will pass out. Heat rashes from being in the sun for 10 minutes.
Digestive issues: Honestly too many to name but: constant bloating, extreme nausea, constipation, slow motility, lack of appetite, just so much cramping and pain. I lost 18 pounds from Long COVID, as someone who was already considered underweight their entire life, and almost had to get a shunt put into my chest to deliver nutrients because I was nearly completely unable to eat. For the first 6 months of Long COVID, if I could manage 600 calories a day, that was a good day.
Histamine intolerance: Oh boy. My worst symptoms, I don't even know where to start with it. If you know Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) it's very similar. I can only eat 19 foods. If i eat a single bite of something not on that list, it's 48 hours of absolute hell. Coughing, migraines, itchy eyes, such extreme nausea I cannot even describe it, panic/feeling of doom, racing heart rate, derealization, rash, uncontrollable muscle tremors. I only learned about histamine intolerance 5 months into having Long COVID so before that, I was experiencing these symptoms nearly every single day. Terrifying isn't even a strong enough word to describe how it felt to experience all this and have no idea what it was, how to stop it, or if it would ever stop. Really dark times.
Neurological issues: More of that derealization. Inability to concentrate. Anxiety. OCD-like symptoms such as thoughts getting "stuck" in my head, repeating 24/7 completely unable to stop them, genuinely felt like my brain had cracked open and I had lost my mind. Constant dizziness like I'm on a boat.
Sleep issues: I sleep like garbage. I have insomnia, I wake up dozens of times every night and every single time I sleep I have intensely vivid dreams. I can't sleep longer than 7 hours total no matter how exhausted I am. It is exhausting. I'm exhausted, I'm so so tired.
And finally. Just. Really intense suicidal ideation. My body, my health, my entire life has been stolen from me because someone else decided my life was worth less to them than wearing a mask or staying home if they feel sick. Before I got Long COVID, I was preparing to go to South Korea to teach English, then on to a PhD in neurolinguistics, I was supposed to meet my long distance partner and had already booked plane tickets when I got sick. All of that has been destroyed.
Most of us with Long COVID are stuck in a cycle of being extremely sick, then if you're lucky you'll slowly get better over months, just to get reinfected and go right back where you started or worse. Honestly, I'm not scared of dying from COVID. I'm scared of living for a long time, suffering from Long COVID the entire time. This isn't living.
I don't know how to end this now. I'm still fighting, I'm trying experimental treatments, I'm not giving up yet. I hope everyone reading this stays healthy and well.
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When students are confronted with the hardships of academic life, it is essential for them to maintain a mind that is concentrated and alert. The ability to concentrate and maintain cognitive function is significantly aided by consuming a diet that is appropriately balanced. The following is a list of foods and dietary suggestions that have been suggested to improve pupils' ability to concentrate:
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Some bad information about cast iron pans going around or what
Like I cant find anything so im gonna say no but my friends mom texted her a little bit ago telling her to stop using cast iron immediately and let her know if she needs new pans
And like my friend has a lot of health problems and her mom has been pushing "cures" and "treatments" on her her whole life so this is probably just more of the same
But the only potential negative i could find to using cast iron pans is that they add iron to whatever you're cooking and if youre at risk for iron overload that could cause problems
But my friend has low iron. So that's not a problem.
And the only negative story I could find involving cast irons pans in the news is that someone got their head bashed in with a cast iron pan a few weeks ago
So we're not really sure where the sudden urgency to get rid of cast iron pans is coming from
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reasonsforhope · 9 months
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"A team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a real-time air monitor that can detect any of the SARS-CoV-2 virus variants that are present in a room in about 5 minutes.
The proof-of-concept device was created by researchers from the McKelvey School of Engineering and the School of Medicine at Washington University...
The results are contained in a July 10 publication in Nature Communications that provides details about how the technology works.
The device holds promise as a breakthrough that - when commercially available - could be used in hospitals and health care facilities, schools, congregate living quarters, and other public places to help detect not only the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but other respiratory virus aerosol such as influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) as well.
“There is nothing at the moment that tells us how safe a room is,” Cirrito said, in the university’s news release. “If you are in a room with 100 people, you don’t want to find out five days later whether you could be sick or not. The idea with this device is that you can know essentially in real time, or every 5 minutes, if there is a live virus in the air.”
How It Works
The team combined expertise in biosensing with knowhow in designing instruments that measure the toxicity of air. The resulting device is an air sampler that operates based on what’s called “wet cyclone technology.” Air is sucked into the sampler at very high speeds and is then mixed centrifugally with a fluid containing a nanobody that recognizes the spike protein from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. That fluid, which lines the walls of the sampler, creates a surface vortex that traps the virus aerosols. The wet cyclone sampler has a pump that collects the fluid and sends it to the biosensor for detection of the virus using electrochemistry.
The success of the instrument is linked to the extremely high velocity it generates - the monitor has a flow rate of about 1,000 liters per minute - allowing it to sample a much larger volume of air over a 5-minute collection period than what is possible with currently available commercial samplers. It’s also compact - about one foot wide and 10 inches tall - and lights up when a virus is detected, alerting users to increase airflow or circulation in the room.
Testing the Monitor
To test the monitor, the team placed it in the apartments of two Covid-positive patients. The real-time air samples from the bedrooms were then compared with air samples collected from a virus-free control room. The device detected the RNA of the virus in the air samples from the bedrooms but did not detect any in the control air samples.
In laboratory experiments that aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 into a room-sized chamber, the wet cyclone and biosensor were able to detect varying levels of airborne virus concentrations after only a few minutes of sampling, according to the study.
“We are starting with SARS-CoV-2, but there are plans to also measure influenza, RSV, rhinovirus and other top pathogens that routinely infect people,” Cirrito said. “In a hospital setting, the monitor could be used to measure for staph or strep, which cause all kinds of complications for patients. This could really have a major impact on people’s health.”
The Washington University team is now working to commercialize the air quality monitor."
-via Forbes, July 11, 2023
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Holy shit. I know it's still early in the technology and more testing will inevitably be needed but holy shit.
Literally, if it bears out, this could revolutionize medicine. And maybe let immunocompromised people fucking go places again
Also, for those who don't know, Nature Communications is a very prestigious scientific journal that focuses on Pretty Big Deal research. Their review process is incredibly rigorous. This is an absolutely HUGE credibility boost to this research and prototype
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zvaigzdelasas · 2 months
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US rice exports to Haiti, which account for the bulk of supplies of the country’s key food staple, contain unhealthy levels of arsenic and cadmium, heavy metals that can increase risks of cancer and heart disease, according to a recent study by the University of Michigan.
Haiti is among America’s top buyers of rice, alongside Mexico and Japan, and cheap imports are more affordable than local options in the Caribbean nation, the poorest state in the western hemisphere.
According to the study, average arsenic and cadmium concentrations were nearly twice as high in imported rice compared to the Haitian-grown product, with some imported samples exceeding international limits.
Nearly all imported rice samples exceeded the US Food and Drug Administration’s recommendation for children’s consumption. [...]
The study, which attributed the dominance of imported rice to lower import tariffs and long-term contracts signed during [US-supported] political turmoil in the late 1980s and 1990s, said Haiti imports nearly 90 per cent of its rice, almost exclusively from the US.[...]
When researchers ran the study in 2020, they found that Haitians on average consumed 85kg of rice per year, compared to 12kg in the US
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htlifestyle · 1 year
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7 Techniques to Enhance Your Focus | HT Lifestyle
Do you struggle with staying focused on tasks in a world full of distractions? In this video, we'll share six techniques to help improve your concentration and stay on track, ultimately leading to increased productivity and goal achievement. From the popular Pomodoro Technique to eliminating distractions and practicing mindfulness, these tips will help you stay focused and achieve your goals. Watch the video to learn more and find the technique that works best for you!
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khushishrestha · 1 year
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How to increase concentration in studies
While studying do you get distracted easily and can't focus on your studies for more than a minute? If yes then you are in the right place in this blog I have researched and written down some tips which you can use to increase your concentration power while studying. If you implement these tips religiously you will see the changes yourself.
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rohitkumar012 · 1 year
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Tips to improve concentration power for students
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best-home-tutor · 1 year
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How to improve concentration and memory while studying?
We all know how important is concentration power. and when it comes to students it is an essential part of their studies. If you want your child to be the best in class. You need to make sure your child has good concentration power and memory while studying. 
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apas-95 · 2 years
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The thing about car-dependency is that... it sucks for people without a car. Big news, right. But, it’s not like that incentive curve is something we can just ignore. When our desire or ability to leave our house at all is conditional on being in a car, that affects all of our behaviour on every level.
Kids are the prototypical ‘person without a car’, and in a car-dependent area, they become dependent on their parents. In a normal, walkable city or suburb, children walk on their own to school, they cycle, they take the bus. Instead of needing to get parental approval - and enough enthusiasm to dedicate the time - to be shuttled around to any given activity, children walk to the park, or to a friend’s house. Even in rural areas, with the infrastructure, children will cycle to school. In a car-dependent suburb, a child is trapped in a single-family McMansion on the edge of town, forced to beg their parents to be able to go anywhere, always under supervision - is it any wonder they’d rather stay inside?
Even in a city, if it’s car-dependent, this is still an issue. When the roads are 100-decibel, 6-lane monstrosities, with cyclists expected to intermingle with traffic, and the busses stuck in the exact same jam, kids aren’t going to be able to get anywhere, assuming their parents even let them cross the street. This isn’t just about proximity, it’s fundamentally related to safety. Car-dependent places are a lot more dangerous to be in, on account of all the cars, so parents feel it’s safer for their kid to be in one of those cars. To boot, when everyone’s in a car, there are less people around, less people who can notice someone in trouble, less people who can help. When places are built with the assumption that everyone will have a car, they become places for cars, which humans can stupidly venture into.
This doesn’t just apply to children. We are all, at some point or another, a ‘person without a car’ - in fact, we’re a ‘person without a car’ most of the time, until we get into one. A lot of people would prefer to remain that way; driving a car is stressful, it takes a lot of effort and concentration, and not everyone likes it at 6AM. But, when your environment is built with the assumption you’re inside a soundproof, crash-proof metal box, that becomes a requirement. The second you’re outside of those conditions, scurrying across deafening, hot tarmac, and dodging heavy-duty pickup trucks (carrying solely one guy and his starbucks order), of course you’d decide that not being in a car sucks. But, the thing is, it’s designing for cars that made it suck, even for the car-drivers.
A place designed for cars, a place that people cannot walk, or cycle, or take public transit through, is a place full of cars - you are not stuck in traffic, you are traffic. Studies have shown that the average speed of car traffic, over sufficient time, is completely unrelated to the thoroughfare of roads. Eventually, because of induced demand, the new seven-lane arterial road will have exactly the same congestion as the two-lane it replaced. The one factor that sharply determines how slow road traffic gets is, listen to this, the speed of non-car travel. It is solely when alternatives become faster that people stop driving and free up traffic. Shutting down main street, only allowing buses through, would drastically increase the speed of the rest of the road network - because each of those buses is 40 cars not in traffic. If you like driving, you should want as many people as possible who don’t want to drive to stop doing it - and whoever you are, you should want to be able to travel without depending on cars.
When I was in the biggest depressive slump of my life, and I could barely get out of bed, I still went shopping for food nearly every day, and even traveled to visit my partner. The supermarket was 10 meters out the door of my apartment, and I could walk five minutes to either train station if I had to. It was peaceful and quiet outside. My disabled mother doesn’t like living in cities, but she loves public transit, and will always take a train ride over a long, tiring car journey - and when every store doesn’t need a parking lot twice as big as itself, whatever walking she does have to do is over a much shorter distance. When I’ve had to call an ambulance in a ‘car-hostile’ place, it has arrived inconceivably faster, on those clear roads, than when sitting in the traffic of the highway-lined carpark that makes up so many cities.
Car dependency sucks for everyone, including car drivers, but it sucks the worst for people already suffering. It strips you of independence, and forces you into a box you might not fit in - and I haven’t even touched on pollution. Car-dependency makes cities and suburbs into dangerous, stressful places, devoid of everyone except the most desperate. The only people it benefits are, really, the CEOs of car companies.
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