This paper tries to shed a fresh light on the use of several key terms in traditional Chinese medicine (and philosophy) related to the theory of so-called systematic correspondence. Drawing on some influential works i...
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This paper tries to shed a fresh light on the use of several key terms in traditional Chinese medicine (and philosophy) related to the theory of so-called systematic correspondence. Drawing on some influential works in Chinese science and civilization (e.g., Marcel Granet, Joseph Needham, Nathan Sivin), the paper argues that the idea of rhythm, properly defined, should become an organizing idea in studying the traditions of Chinese thinking and practice in medicine as well as in general. Rhythmicity is not periodicity (though they are inseparable from one another) and the idea of rhythm is more useful (than for example the notion of correspondence) for medical anthropology. The paper is divided into three parts: 1) the idea of rhythm in some key terms of traditional Chinese medicine, 2) the Chinese theory of resonance versus the idea of rhythm, and 3) the relation of resonance, rhythm and ecstatic experiences with respect to medical anthropology. An acquaintance with the arguments of my previous article in these pages will be helpful but not necessary for the present paper.
The reconstruction of war-damaged areas and buildings has attracted much interest in recent years, including studies of how ideas about whether and how to conserve developed. This study explores these ideas using one ...
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The reconstruction of war-damaged areas and buildings has attracted much interest in recent years, including studies of how ideas about whether and how to conserve developed. This study explores these ideas using one building type - the church - usually prominent in the lownscape and in people's experiences of areas.
This cross-sectional study aimed to assess smoking prevention and cessation education delivered as part of the UK National Curriculum and to evaluate the relative effectiveness of health, social influence and other/no...
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This cross-sectional study aimed to assess smoking prevention and cessation education delivered as part of the UK National Curriculum and to evaluate the relative effectiveness of health, social influence and other/non-health components. In all, 1789 students aged 11-15 from 12 secondary schools completed online surveys assessing smoking status, factors known to be related to smoking and experience of smoking education. A total of 1421 of 1722 (83%) students remembered some school-based education. Of these, 803 (57%) said that the lessons changed their ideas about smoking. Multinomial logistic regression was used to assess whether lesson recall was associated with smoking status in a model adjusting for age, gender, ethnicity, family and best friend smoking status, socioeconomic status, and school. Quitters were more likely than smokers to report having changed their ideas about smoking as a result of a lesson (OR 5.78, 95% CI 2.44-13.72). The relative effectiveness of 16 lesson themes was assessed. Significantly more students changed their ideas about smoking as a result of 'health' compared with 'social influence' (chi(2) (1) 124.0, P < 0.001) or 'other/non-health' (chi(2) (1) 63.16, P < 0.001) topics. Mouth cancer was the most effective health topic and may provide a suitable model for both smoking and risky drinking prevention.
With the rapid development of the tertiary industry in China, more and more attentions have been paid to the planning and construction of urban business district The intensive land development, as well as the high sta...
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(纸本)9787500124979
With the rapid development of the tertiary industry in China, more and more attentions have been paid to the planning and construction of urban business district The intensive land development, as well as the high standard of city environment requirements, has made the development and utilization of underground space indispensible. This paper Presents several aspects on the development of the underground pedestrian network, the underground automobile traffic network and the underground municipal facility network in business districts. It is hoped that useful guidelines and conclusions can be beneficial to the planning of underground space in business district in China.
The main previous analyses of punishment by Hart, Feinberg and Wasserstrom are considered and criticized. One persistent fault is the neglect of the idea that in punishment the person subjected to it is represented as...
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The main previous analyses of punishment by Hart, Feinberg and Wasserstrom are considered and criticized. One persistent fault is the neglect of the idea that in punishment the person subjected to it is represented as having no valid excuse for wrongdoing. A new analysis is proposed which attempts to specify in what sense punishment by its very nature is retributive, as Wasserstrom has asserted. Certain problematic cases such as strict liability offenses and pre-trial detention are considered in light of the new analysis.
This paper examines a recurrent debate about the rationale of contractual liability: whether the central object of contract law is to facilitate human interaction by respecting individual choices, or if it is in large...
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This paper examines a recurrent debate about the rationale of contractual liability: whether the central object of contract law is to facilitate human interaction by respecting individual choices, or if it is in large part to redistribute wealth, power, and advantages generally. The debate between defenders of freedom of contract and those who would use contract law to advance schemes of redistribution is connected to the long-standing issues between natural-law theories and legal positivism. This paper is divided into two main sections. In the first, the notion of individual autonomy is examined in light of the classical view, most recently advanced by Fried, that the rationale for enforcing contracts is connected to the respect for individual autonomy as such. There is also an examination of the notion of a collective concern, and what it is, from a libertarian point of view, that makes some social goals objectionably collective. The second part of the paper argues that the use of collective resources for the enforcement of contracts brings with it the authority to limit and shape enforcement in the interest of redistribution.
In the modern verification environment an FPGA-based prototyping has become an important part of the whole verification flow. The ability to simulate real time application in more realistic speeds allows much higher c...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467381239
In the modern verification environment an FPGA-based prototyping has become an important part of the whole verification flow. The ability to simulate real time application in more realistic speeds allows much higher coverage than traditional HDL logic simulators. The main disadvantage of FPGA prototyping is inability to inspect and observe internal FPGA signals. Currently there are two traditional solutions for this problem. The first solution is using embedded trace-buffers to record a subset of internal signals and the second solution captures a snapshot of the current FPGA state. Both of these techniques have certain benefits and shortcomings. In this paper, we present an idea of merging these two techniques into a new hybrid approach. Using this idea we created a hybrid circuit and during our experiments showed that it preserves all good sides from both traditional approaches.
This paper presents the idea of interoperability among users authorized roles and their authorized permissions using standard HL7 RBAC at trust domain level in a distributed healthcare environment. To provide least pr...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479963690
This paper presents the idea of interoperability among users authorized roles and their authorized permissions using standard HL7 RBAC at trust domain level in a distributed healthcare environment. To provide least privileges in open distributed environment the model is context aware and enforce contextual constrains in form of rules on permission. These rules for different roles are formulated using contextual attributes define for subjects, resources, environment and session. The model is implemented using policy based access control approach. Policies are formulated for permission. A policyset define for a specific role referenced all authorizes permission policies
The paper presents a new approach, based on an algebraic-logical meta-models (ALMM), to solving NP - hard manufacturing problems. There is considered the flow-shop manufacturing problem with time limits, the quality c...
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(纸本)9781467355087;9781467355063
The paper presents a new approach, based on an algebraic-logical meta-models (ALMM), to solving NP - hard manufacturing problems. There is considered the flow-shop manufacturing problem with time limits, the quality control, removing of manufacturing defects on an additional repair machine and re-treatment of task in technological route. Proposed solution consist in switching of original algebraic-logical model to model with modified parameters when quality defects appear. In particular algebraic-logical model of flow-shop manufacturing problem with time limits and modified model with additional repair machine are proposed. Furthermore, the switching function from original model into modified model is given.
From a corpus constituted by the five Cohesion Reports written by the European Commission, the article, using the methods of textual analysis, highlights the production of a European discourse on the territories parti...
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From a corpus constituted by the five Cohesion Reports written by the European Commission, the article, using the methods of textual analysis, highlights the production of a European discourse on the territories participating to a process of institutionalization. Thus, starting from various authors analyses who validate the idea of institutionalization, the authors propose here to further explore this idea, using a method based on a lexical analysis software. The aim is then, on the one hand, to assess the extent to which the discourse of the Commission has elements of stability to justify the idea of institutionalization or, in the other hand, the elements of change over time that could compromise the very idea of institutionalization. The authors present the following results: the Commission discourse has important features of stability. Nevertheless, beyond this finding, there are changes at work. Their expression is rendered possible by the polysemy of the notions mobilized, and they are driven partly by a "rational" representation, but above all by the interplay of the succession of tensions and mind-shaping contexts in the construction of Europe.
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