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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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The Defense Mechanisms Inventory presents a classification system to determine what style of defensive response an individual might typically use in a particular situation.
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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
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Hypoglycemia unawareness is a result of the blunting of hormonal defense mechanisms that prevent hypoglycemia and the lowering of the level at which early hypoglycemic symptoms are perceived.
Anorexia is often characterized by the defense mechanisms of denial and rationalization, allowing the person to believe that their judgment and behavior are entirely normal and reasonable.
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Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator
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Similar revisions were made to each of the ego defense mechanisms, placing more emphasis on behavior in the social context than unconscious motivation.
Defense mechanisms distort reality Because defense mechanisms distort reality in order to avoid unpleasant emotions, the person who uses them has an impaired ability to recognize and accept reality.
Using these defense mechanisms is the wrong way to deal with unpleasant events because there is always a negative psychological impact, as well as a failure to gain from knowledge made available by the experience.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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PDA Defense can also be set to disable the infrared and serial data transfer mechanisms of a Palm device.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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These defense mechanisms may restrict some microorganisms and insects to a single oak subgenus, a single oak species, or even to certain individuals within the species.
None of the defense mechanisms known to control conventional viral diseases is effective against spongiform encephalopathy viruses.
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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EPO is considered an important effector molecule in the host defense mechanisms against various parasite infections and also contributes to the pathophysiology of allergic diseases.
Opportunistic pathogens are those isolated from patients whose host defense mechanisms have been compromised.
The respiratory defense mechanisms can be compromised by cigarette smoking and viral upper respiratory infections that diminish mucociliary clearance.
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