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The Elements of Earth and Water: Alchemy and the Art of Healing
No full textThis thesis is being archived as a Digitized Shelf Copy for campus access to current students and staff only. We currently cannot provide this open access without the author's permission. If you are the author of this work and desire to provide it open access or wish access removed, please contact the Wahlstrom Library to discuss permission.The present study, rather than beginning with a relatively obvious perceptual experience and attempting to restrain the potentially abstract influence of conceptualization as would be the case in a more strict phenomenological model, attempts to work on the basis of the evolving, interpenetrating, and mutually-influencing progression of experience that works between and with both the conceptual and the perceptual on an equal basis. Knowledge is not solely conceptual, but instead is always situated in and arises out of the interpenetration between the intricately felt perceptual and the conceptual aspects of experience as a whole. A recognition of both the unity of experience and its equally important polar conceptual and perceptual aspects. The Goethean phenomenological method is the most appropriate for this study because of its unique ability to weave together subjective and objective aspects of experience. Rather than seeing this, as would a later, reductionist science, as simply a projection of fantasy onto a dead, abstract world, the alchemists recognized the specific workings of their central principle: “As above, so below; as within, so without.” The alchemists understood that the only reason the processes of the natural world could be elaborated and understood was because the same processes were at work within the individual. The following study attempts to illuminate the practical application of these principles in the art of Naturopathic medicine, a medicine based in holism and vitalism. In its overall form, structure and composition, the microcosm of the human body reflects the macrocosm of Nature. Disease and dysfunction arise when there is imbalance; healing consists of bringing the microcosm of the human body back into balance with the macrocosm of Nature
A Review of Literature Pertaining to the Clinical Use of Monotropa Uniflora
No full textThis thesis is being archived as a Digitized Shelf Copy for campus access to current students and staff only. We currently cannot provide this open access without the author's permission. If you are the author of this work and desire to provide it open access or wish access removed, please contact the Wahlstrom Library to discuss permission.Monotropa uniflora is a local New England saprophyte that has been used medicinally by Native Americans, early Eclectic physicians and herbalists alike. Despite historical use, though, this plant is not commonly found in today’s herbal pharmacopeia. This thesis looks at the benefits of Monogtropa uniflora looking at clinical evidence as well as potential uses of its key constituents found therein. The larger question surrounding this botanical remedy with historic value is whether it should be considered in today’s botanical pharmacopeia. Likewise, what led to the diminished use of this plant? Should this plant be added back to the arsenal of pain remedies? Was Monotropa uniflora ever considered a universal treasure or did it remain a plant only locally known for its medicinal benefits
Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP): Robust and Efficient for Data Centre Applications
Get PDFDue to rapid advancement in modern technology, as one of the major concerns is the stability of business. The organizations depend on their systems to provide robust and faster processing of information for their operations. Efficient data centers are key sources to handle these operations. If the organizational system is not fully functional, the performance of organization may be impaired or clogged completely. With the developments of real-time applications into data centers for data communications, there is a need to use an alternative of the standard TCP protocol to provide reliable data transfer. Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) consists of several well built-in characteristics that make it capable to work efficiently with real-time applications. In this paper, we evaluate an optimized version of STCP. The optimized version of SCTP is tested against a non optimized version of STCP and TCP in a data center environment. Simulations of the protocols are carried using NS2 simulator.http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.062
Are Natural Therapies Effective in the Prevention/Treatment of ER+/PR+ Breast Cancer?
No full textThis thesis is being archived as a Digitized Shelf Copy for campus access to current students and staff only. We currently cannot provide this open access without the author's permission. If you are the author of this work and desire to provide it open access or wish access removed, please contact the Wahlstrom Library to discuss permission.Breast cancer is now the second leading cause of cancer death in women. Researchers continue to study the etiology of breast cancer so that more effective therapies can be implemented. The focus of the literature of review is to determine whether or not natural therapies are effective and have a role in the treatment/prevention of estrogen receptor positive (ER+)/ progesterone receptor positive (PR+) breast cancer. Natural therapies including botanicals, nutrients, vitamins, diet, and homeopathy have been implemented in the treatment/prevention of hormonal dependent breast cancer. The natural therapies reviewed in the literature of review include Pomegranite, Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, Green tea, Curcumin, Mistletoe, Phytoestrogens, Indole-3-Carbinol, 33-diindolymethane (DIM), Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, Vitamin D, Lignans, and the homeopathic remedies Ruta, Carcinosinum, Hydrastis, and Thuja. Although the natural therapies reviewed seemed to have an overall favorable effect on women with hormonal dependant breast cancer, many of these studies were performed on mice, and more studies need to be formed on humans for a more accurate analysis
April Fool's Day edition
No full textThis is the April 2013 edition of the Scribe, Issue 3. The first half of the edition is the April Fool's Day edition and the remainder features entertainment, fashion and sports news
English language proficiency and the accommodations for language non-concordance amongst patients utilizing chiropractic college teaching clinics
No full textBackground: The number of households in the United States that are not proficient in the English language is growing and presenting a challenge to the health care system. Over nineteen percent of the US population speak a language other than English in the home. This increase in language discordance generates a greater need to find and implement accommodations in the clinical setting to insure accurate and efficient diagnosis and treatment as well as provide for patient safety. Aim: The purpose of this study is to determine the percentage of patients accessing the chiropractic college teaching clinics who are not proficient in the English language and to what extent the colleges provide accommodations for that language disparity. Methods: The clinic directors and deans of the Association of Chiropractic Colleges were surveyed via an on-line survey engine. The survey queried the percentage of the patient population that is not English language proficient, the accommodations the college currently has in place, if the college has a language specific consent to treat document and if the college has a written policy concerning patients without English proficiency. Results: Fifty percent of the contacted chiropractic colleges responded to the survey. In the respondent college clinics 16.5% of the patient population is not proficient in English, with over 75% speaking Spanish. All but one of the respondents provide some level of accommodation for the language non-concordance. Forty five percent of the responding colleges employ a language specific consent to treat form. The implementation of accommodations and the use of a language specific consent to treat form is more prevalent at colleges with a higher percentage of non-English speaking patients. Conclusions: The percentage of patients with limited English proficiency accessing services at the teaching clinics of the chiropractic colleges mirrors the numbers in the general population. There is a wide disparity in the accommodations that the individual colleges make to address this language discordance. There is a need to further develop accurate and meaningful accommodations to address language disparity in the chiropractic teaching clinics.https://doi.org/10.1186/2045-709X-21-
Will the Licensing of Naturopathic Medical Doctors In the State of Maryland reduce Health Care Spending and Medically Underserved Areas? A Study looking at the Impact of Wellness programs on Healthcare Cost, Emergency Room Overcrowding, and the Burden of Chronic Disease.
No full textDamilola Familoni's thesis about the licensing of Naturopathic Medical Doctors in the state of Maryland and its effect on health care.This thesis is being archived as a Digitized Shelf Copy for campus access to current students and staff only. We currently cannot provide this open access without the author's permission. If you are the author of this work and desire to provide it open access or wish access removed, please contact the Wahlstrom Library to discuss permission
A New Comprehensive Model for the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks in Different Environments
No full textThis thesis is being archived as a Digitized Shelf Copy for campus access to current students and staff only. We currently cannot provide this open access without the author's permission. If you are the author of this work and desire to provide it open access or wish access removed, please contact the Wahlstrom Library to discuss permission.In this dissertation a new comprehensive model for the lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in different environments is presented. The model takes into consideration several parameters such as the total number of sensors, network size, percentage of sink nodes, location of sensors, the mobility of sensors, and power consumption. Furthermore, the model considers the power consumed in the electronic circuitry, the data size, the probability of transmission or receiving of data, and the distance of transmission. A number of wireless sensor networks scenarios are presented and discussed. In order to examine the validity of the model, it is tested for many scenarios. Furthermore, it is validated against the simulations results of Micaz sensors. In this dissertation, several scenarios in the air, water, and soil are presented. In each scenario, the total power in the network, number of dead sensors, total number of alive sensors, and number of dead sinks nodes over the lifetime of the WSN are evaluated. The new model addresses the following issues: (1) study the effect of communications on the lifetime of Wireless Sensor networks, (2) present an advanced model of power consumed in communications and its effect on the lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks, (3) develop a new model for the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks in both pure water and salty water communication, and (4) develop a model for the lifetime of the wireless sensor network communications in different types of soil including, sandy, loamy and magnetite soil. The results obtained from the model are accurate compared to the results of the Micaz simulation. The results presented in this model show its importance from the designer perspective. The model can be used as a design tool as well as a research tool to evaluate the performance of the wireless sensor networks
Deployment of Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) to Maintain the Applications of Data Centers
No full textWith developments of real-time applications into data centers, the need for alternatives of the standard TCP protocol has been prime demand in several applications of data centers. The several alternatives of TCP protocol has been proposed but SCTP has edge due to its several well-built characteristics that make it capable to work efficiently. In this paper, we examine the features of SCTP into data centers like Multi-streaming and Multi-Homing over the features of TCP protocol. In this paper, our objective is to introduce internal problems of data centers. Robust transport protocol reduces the problems with some extend. Focusing the problems of data centers, we also examine weakness of highly deployed standard TCP, and evaluate the performance of SCTP in context of faster communication for data centers. We also discover some weaknesses and shortcomings of SCTP into data centers and try to propose some ways to avoid them by maintaining SCTP native features. To validate strength and weakness of TCP and SCTP, we use ns2 for simulation in context of data center. On basis of findings, we highlight major strength of SCTP. At the end, we Implement finer grain TCP locking mechanisms for larger messages.http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.263