NARTH states that refusing to offer therapy aimed at change to a client who requests it, and telling him that his only option is to claim a gay identity, could also be considered ethically unacceptable.

Spitzer has requested that all " ex-gay " therapy organizations such as NARTH, PFOX, American College of Pediatricians, and Focus on the Family stop citing his study as evidence for conversion therapy.

The Shidlo-Schroeder recruitment poster is available at NARTH online, stating that the study's authors did not seek to measure the average outcome of conversion therapy, although their study has often been used by activists as if it had, in fact, sought a representative sample ; the lack of a representative sample therefore makes the 80 % failure rate, cited above in this same paragraph, a meaningless number.

In support of the mission statement of NARTH, he concluded, " The individual's right for self-determination of sexuality -- or sexual autonomy -- is, I am happy to see, inherent in NARTH's position statement: ' NARTH respects each client's dignity, autonomy, and free agency ... every individual has the right to claim a gay identity, or to develop their heterosexual potential.

The main organization advocating secular forms of conversion therapy is the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality ( NARTH ), which often partners with religious groups.

In fact, former American Psychological Association presidents Robert Perloff and Nicholas Cummings have both been Keynote Speakers at recent NARTH conferences and have strongly decried the efforts of the major professional associations, in their opinion, to marginalize reparative therapists and allegedly promote gay activism instead of scientific impartiality.

" NARTH was founded in 1992 by Joseph Nicolosi, Benjamin Kaufman, and Charles Socarides.

The anti-homosexuality group NARTH, who incorrectly believe that homosexuality is caused by seduction of a child by an adult, objected to the study's implications that boys who are sexually abused are not traumatized for life and become homosexuals in the process.

" Conversion treatments ", such as those by NARTH, were also recommended.

The American Psychoanalytic Association ( APsaA ) spoke against NARTH in 2004, stating " that organization does not adhere to our policy of nondiscrimination and ... their activities are demeaning to our members who are gay and lesbian.

" NARTH believes that it is discriminatory and unethical to ignore the needs and goals of people who do not wish to be gay.

In 1992, Joseph Nicolosi, Charles Socarides, and Benjamin Kaufman founded the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality ( NARTH ), a mental health organization that opposes the mainstream medical view of homosexuality and aims to " make effective psychological therapy available to all homosexual men and women who seek change.

The National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality ( NARTH ) is a nonprofit organization that offers reparative therapy and other regimens that purport to change the sexual orientation of individuals who experience unwanted same-sex attraction.

Julie Hamilton is the current president of NARTH.

" Former American Psychological Association President Dr. Nicholas Cummings was the Keynote Speaker at the 2011 NARTH Conference and said that he had a " high regard " for NARTH and considered it an honor to be invited to speak at NARTH's scientific gathering.

In order to study how normal cellular activities are altered in different disease states, the biological data must be combined to form a comprehensive picture of these activities.

The most extensive study of the characteristics of altered states of consciousness was made by psychologist Charles Tart in the 1960s and 1970s.

Research in this area has not yet reached firm conclusions, but a recent questionnaire-based study identified eleven significant factors contributing to drug-induced states of consciousness: experience of unity ; spiritual experience ; blissful state ; insightfulness ; disembodiment ; impaired control and cognition ; anxiety ; complex imagery ; elementary imagery ; audio-visual synesthesia ; and changed meaning of percepts.

Insolvency proceedings under state law, the study stated, are currently faster, less expensive, and more private, with some states not even requiring court filings.

Eppig, Fincher, and Thornhill ( 2011 ) in a similar study instead looking at different US states found that in states with higher prevalence of infectious diseases had lower average IQ.

However, Galen states that in around 145 AD his father had a dream in which the god Asclepius ( Aesculapius ) appeared and commanded Nicon to send his son to study medicine.

A study of U. S. states showed that businesses ' annual and average payrolls grow faster and employment grew at a faster rate in states with a minimum wage.

In 2006, U. S. National Academy of Sciences released the report of a study of molecular manufacturing as part of a longer report, A Matter of Size: Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative The study committee reviewed the technical content of Nanosystems, and in its conclusion states that no current theoretical analysis can be considered definitive regarding several questions of potential system performance, and that optimal paths for implementing high-performance systems cannot be predicted with confidence.

While early psychophysiologists almost always examined the impact of psychological states on physiological system responses, since the 1970s, psychophysiologists also frequently study the impact of physiological states and systems on psychological states and processes.

In its most general formulation, quantum mechanics is a theory of abstract operators ( observables ) acting on an abstract state space ( Hilbert space ), where the observables represent physically observable quantities and the state space represents the possible states of the system under study.

A study conducted by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in 2009 ( in collaboration with Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT ) analyzed half a million genetic markers across the genomes of 132 individuals from 25 ethnic groups from 13 states in India across multiple caste groups.

Michael Freeden in his study Ideologies and Political Theory ( 1996 ) states that all socialists share five themes: the first is that socialism posits that society is more than a mere collection of individuals ; second, that it considers human welfare a desirable objective ; third, that it considers humans by nature to be active and productive ; fourth, it holds the belief of human equality ; and fifth, that history is progressive and will create positive change on the condition that humans work to achieve such change.

In 1999, a study by the Kinsey Institute, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, examined the definition of sex based on a 1991 random sample of 599 college students from 29 U. S. states ; it reported that 60 %

Corroborating this view, a study conducted by James W. Deardorff states that only a small percentage of extraterrestrial civilizations may be aggressive.

Most often researchers use them to study the " native states " of macromolecules.

A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie 1775 – 1800, Darnton states that there is no need to further study the encyclopædia itself, as " the book has been analyzed and anthologized dozen of times: to recapitulate all the studies of its intellectual content would be redundant ".

Modern taxonomy does not study criteria such as " higher " and " lower " states of development or distinctions between " main " and " side " branches — only family relationships indicated by cladistic methods are considered relevant.

Other critics of Kellermann's work and its use by advocates of gun control point out that since it deliberately ignores crimes of violence occurring outside the home ( Kellermann states at the outset that the characteristics of such homicides are much more complex and ambiguous, and would be virtually impossible to classify rigorously enough ), it is more directly a study of domestic violence than of gun ownership.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

Information is hereby given that Mr. Timothy Palmer of Newburyport, Mass. has agreed to take charge of the concerns of the Patentees of the Chain Bridge, in the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, so far as relates to the sale of Patent rights and the construction of Chain Bridges.

Tri-State has acquired its exclusive distribution for the northern, principal heating states.

Felix Kopstein states that `` when the snake reaches its maturity it has already reached about its maximal length '', but goes on to cite the reticulate python as an exception, with maximum length approximately three times that at maturity.

These are few and seemingly disjointed data, but they illustrate the important fact that fundamental alterations in conditioned reactions occur in a variety of states in which the hypothalamic balance has been altered by physiological experimentation, pharmacological action, or clinical processes.

The greatest impact of the matching-fund principle has been in initially encouraging the poorest states and school districts to spend enough to obtain their full allocation of outside funds.

But it has achieved a cross-section of students from almost all the states, and two-thirds of its undergraduates come from outside New England.

The President has also called upon the Attorney General, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Secretary of Labor to coordinate their efforts `` in the development of a program of federal leadership to assist states and local communities in their efforts to cope with the problem.

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Thus the negation of the axiom of choice states that there exists a set of nonempty sets which has no choice function.

Note that " completeness " has a different meaning here than it does in the context of Gödel's first incompleteness theorem, which states that no recursive, consistent set of non-logical axioms of the Theory of Arithmetic is complete, in the sense that there will always exist an arithmetic statement such that neither nor can be proved from the given set of axioms.

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Author James Basker states that the song has been employed by African Americans as the " paradigmatic Negro spiritual " because it expresses the joy felt at being delivered from slavery and worldly miseries.

The attempt itself has been made an offence in India, as in other states.

According to the Fraser Institute, Alberta has very high levels of economic freedom and rates Alberta as the most free economy in Canada, and second most free economy amongst U. S. states and Canadian provinces.

Politically, Abadan was often the subject of dispute between the nearby states ; in 1847, Persia acquired it, in which state Abadan has remained since.

The ACT has internal self-government, but Australia's Constitution does not afford the territory government the full legislative independence provided to Australian states.

Many states have Arbor Day although only Victoria has Arbor Week, which was suggested by Premier Dick Hamer in the 1980s.

This provision has been dormant since Queen Victoria ascended the throne, because she did not inherit Hanover under the Salic Laws of the German states, but in principle it could again become relevant in the future.

The practice of the Australian states — for example, New South Wales and Victoria — has been, when legislating to repeal some imperial statutes so far as they still applied in Australia, to provide that imperial statutes concerning the royal succession remain in force.

) Hilton also claims a Roman Catholic monarch would therefore be unable to be crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury and points to the examples of European states that have similar religious provisions for their monarchs: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, whose constitutions compel their monarchs to be Lutherans, the Netherlands, the constitution of which insists its monarchs be members of the Protestant House of Orange, and Belgium, which has a constitution that provides for the succession to be through Roman Catholic houses.

"... Turquoise was chosen because the greenish-blue stone is indigenous to Arizona, copper because Arizona is one the nation's top copper-producing states and purple because it has become a favorite color for Arizona sports fans, thanks to the success of the National Basketball Association's Phoenix Suns.

Although Tasmanian AFL Bid has been ongoing, the AFL's focus has become gaining marketshare in lucrative and broadcasting rights in two populous Australian states, introducing clubs on the Gold Coast, Queensland ( Gold Coast Football Club ) and in Greater Western Sydney ( Greater Western Sydney Football Club ).