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Comparison of the dietary habits of normal subjects among five Mediterranean countries and with the traditional Mediterranean diet
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Teori Sastra Semiotik-Feminisme dalam Novel al-Ajnihah al-Mutakassirah (Sayap-Sayap Patah) Karya Kahlil Gibran
No full textA literary work has strong correlation with the factors behind its. Literary work is expressed sosio-cultural background of the author, ideas and its concepts, included feminist issue, therefore that novelette al-Ajnihah al-Mutakassirah as a literary work unveiling inequality gender relations between man and woman and these was of Gibran’s criticism ton feminist issues in a literary work that considered that patriarchal norms dominated various literary genres, especially Arabic literature.This study used the semiotic Michael Riffaterre analyzing a heuristic and hermeneutic approach and feminist literary criticism. Each approach used to dismantle the signs and symbols and analyse how the feminist idea of the author in the text when faced of the male’s domination and how the image of woman explored by the author, image of woman as the victims or image of woman who fight for the gender equality.In a correlation with feminism, there are many researcher had studied with the feminism approach, but according to researcher there was not one researcher study yet when feminism approach combine with semiotic study focused in teory and practise. If There, it was focus instead on Poetry. This study also focused to see a figure of Kahlil Gibran from various perspective, one of them through feminism.Â
Symbols and metaphors as means of revealing the author`s unconsciousness in Kahlil Gibran`s The Prophet : a studi of analytical psychology
No full textThe Spokesman - October 26, 2001 Volume , Issue - Incomplete Paper
No full textAnita Gillard's Dedication:
Anita Gillard has been working at Morgan State University for 30 years, starting as a temporary worker and eventually becoming the Office Manager for the Student Government Association. She hopes students become more active and that professors engage more with students. Gillard emphasizes the importance of learning from predecessors and believes Morgan State is heading in a positive direction.
Banneker Radio Labs in Poor Condition:
The telecommunications program at Morgan State is facing challenges due to non-functional radio station labs. Students are unable to get hands-on experience with essential equipment like microphones, turntables, and reel-to-reel machines, which hampers their learning. The outdated equipment and lack of support from the communications department are major concerns for students.
Immigration Policies Post-September 11:
The U.S. is reconsidering its immigration policies in response to the September 11 attacks, potentially affecting international students. There is increased scrutiny and proposed measures like the national foreign student tracking system. The changes are expected to impact the number of visas issued and the monitoring of foreign students.
Kahlil Gibran's Legacy:
An article on Kahlil Gibran, a renowned author who integrated Eastern mysticism with Western materialism in his works, particularly in his famous book "The Prophet." Despite language barriers and personal hardships, Gibran's writings have left a lasting impact on literature and spiritual thought.
Cultural Exploration - French Cuisine:
An exploration of French gastronomy at Petit Louis Bistro in Baltimore, emphasizing the importance of quality ingredients and detailed preparation in French cooking. The article includes a recipe for Duck Confit and highlights the relationship between food and wine in French culture.
Kweisi Mfume's Contract Extension with NAACP:
Kweisi Mfume signed a new three-year contract as the president and CEO of the NAACP. The organization is also revising its governing documents and implementing new directives to strengthen its operations. The board has made significant decisions to address civil rights issues in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
Entertainment Reviews:
Reviews of music albums, including Kenny Lattimore's "Weekend," which is described as a perfect blend of party tracks and slow jams. Another review covers T.I.'s debut album "I'm Serious," highlighting his storytelling and club-ready tracks.
Student Perspectives and Experiences:
Articles discussing student life, including the search for the perfect slow dance and reflections on changes in friendships and campus dynamics
Near-Death Experiences, Deathbed Visions, and Past-Life Memories: A Convergence in Support of van Lommel's Consciousness Beyond Life
No full textABSTRACT: This review supports cardiologist Pim van Lommel's continuity claim for human existence in his recently published book Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience (2010). Van Lommel and colleagues (van Lommel, van Wees, Meyers, & Elfferich, 2001) studied NDEs among 344 Dutch hospital patients who had been resuscitated following cardiac arrest. From their and others' NDE research findings (e.g., accurate perceptions during the arrest period), van Lommel and colleagues concluded that mental activity can take place even in the absence of cerebral function. Extrapolating from this conclusion, van Lommel claimed in Consciousness Beyond Life a fundamental continuity for individual human existence: that death and birth mark not final limits but instead the transition from one state of consciousness to another. In the course of making his continuity claim, van Lommel referred to other topics such as deathbed visions and past-life memories. In addition to reviewing NDE research, this article reviews research and illustrative responses pertaining to these related phenomena. A convergence of corroborative evidence is consistent with van Lommel's continuity claim. KEYWORDS: Near-death experience; deathbed vision; past-life memory; consciousness; non-locality John C. Gibbs, Ph.D., is Professor of Developmental Psychology, Psychology Department, The Ohio State University, 1835 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210. He thanks Jonathan Gibbs, editor Jan Holden, Melvin Morse, Denis Purcell, Lea Queener, Ken Ring, Mike Sabom, Carol Stover, Carisa Taylor, and JohnAlexis Viereck for helpful comments on a preliminary version of this article. Reprint requests should be addressed to Dr. Gibbs at [email protected]. JOURNAL Of NEAR-DEATH STUDIES Pim van Lommel is a distinguished cardiologist, researcher, author, and lecturer with a particular interest in near-death experiences (NDEs). With colleagues As van Lommel acknowledged, the continuity claim for human existence is "nothing new" (p. 82). The view of humans as having a continuing, non-material essence has found advocates throughout human intellectual and religious history. The third-century neoPlatonist philosopher Plotinus posited that humans have souls that originate from and return to a timeless, unitary realm of light and truth. The continuity claim has also found expression in the works of philosophers, theologians, and mystics such as Baruch Spinoza, Meister Eckhart, Paul Tillich, John Shelby Spong, and Kahlil Gibran. Reincarnation in particular has been thematic to Eastern religions or traditions (Hinduism, Jainism, Tibetan Buddhism), ancient Egypt, most tribal traditions, Christian Gnosticism, Jewish mysticism, Norse mythology, and spiritualist literature such as that of theosophy and New Age. Van Lommel is also not the first to base the continuity claim on research findings in psychology and other disciplines. Transpersonal psychologist Jenny Wade (1998) used NDE and ostensible prenatal memories to suggest that a transcendent source of consciousness "predates physical life at the moment of conception and survives it after death" (p. 249). Radiation oncologist Jeffrey Long (2010) concluded from a large online NDE self-report data base that "death is not an end but a transition" to an afterlife (p. 201). Edward Kelly and colleagues (Kelly, Kelly, Crabtree, Gauld, Grosso, & Greyson, 2007) argued the need for a twenty-first century psychology that can adequately accommodate many currently anomalous phenomena, including NDEs and deathbed visions. Their prototype toward a new psychological paradigm retrieved the insights of two of psychology's founding figures, Frederick W. H. Myers and William James, and en-JOHN C. GIBBS 305 compassed contributions ranging from process theology to quantum physics. Yet something importantly new pertains to van Lommel's NDE research-based articulation of the continuity claim: in two words, The Lancet. The prior publication of his and colleagues The challenge meets understandable opposition. How can van Lommel or anyone justifiably use near-death studies to make claims regarding death and beyond? It has been said that an extraordinary hypothesis requires for its acceptance extraordinary evidence-and the continuity hypothesis would certainly seem to be extraordinary. Has not neuroscience established that mind or consciousness is totally a function of the brain-and hence cannot possibly continue once brain activity has ceased? What evidence could be extraordinary enough to challenge this established materialist view of mind qua brain-let alone support a leap into a claim for the existence of an afterlife? Does not such a claim drag scholars back to pre-scientific days of baseless belief, dogma, and superstition? Yet as I will show, there is extraordinary evidence. And as the evidentiary base broadens, the existential and ontological claim becomes compelling. Although van Lommel (2010) based his continuity claim largely on NDE studies, he referred also to related existential phenomena such as deathbed visions or "nearing-death awareness" as well as past-life memories. Such related phenomena round out the picture and merit more extensive attention than that afforded in van Lommel's book alone. Accordingly, in this article I primarily review not only NDEs but also deathbed visions and past-life memories (cf. E. f. . I will illustrate the experiential "feel" of these phenomena as well as review corroborative and converging evidence
Specific HLA-DRB and -DQB Alleles and Haplotypes Confer Disease Susceptibility or Resistance in Bahraini Type 1 Diabetes Patients
No full textInsofar as genetic susceptibility to type 1 diabetes is associated with HLA class II genes, with certain allelic combinations conferring disease susceptibility or resistance, this study assessed the distributions of HLA-DR and -DQ among 107 unrelated patients with type 1 diabetes and 88 healthy controls from Bahrain, all of Arab origin. The HLA-DRB and -DQB genotypes were determined by PCR-sequence-specific priming. The following alleles showed the strongest association with type 1 diabetes among patients versus controls according to their frequencies: DRB1*030101 (0.430 versus 0.097; P 0.001), DRB1*040101 (0.243 versus 0.034; P 0.001), DQB1*0201 (0.467 versus 0.193; P 0.001), and DQB1*0302 (0.229 versus 0.091; P 0.001). When the frequencies of alleles in controls were compared to those in patients, negative associations were seen for DRB1*100101 (0.085 versus 0.014; P 0.001), DRB1*110101 (0.210 versus 0.060; P 0.001), DQB1*030101 (0.170 versus 0.075; P = 0.006), and DQB1*050101 (0.335 versus 0.121; P 0.001). In addition, the DRB1*030101-DQB1*0201 (70.1 versus 22.7percent; P 0.001) and DRB1*030101-DQB1*0302 (21.5 versus 0.0percent; P 0.001) genotypes were more prevalent among patients, thereby conferring disease susceptibility, whereas the DRB1*100101-DQB1*050101 (20.5 versus 2.8percent; P 0.001), DRB1*110101-DQB1*030101 (28.4 versus 8.4percent; P 0.001), and DRB1*110101-DQB1*050101 (30.7 versus 0.9percent; P 0.001) genotypes were more prevalent among controls, thus assigning a protective role. These results confirm the association of specific HLA-DR and -DQ alleles and haplotypes with type 1 diabetes and may underline several characteristics that distinguish Bahraini patients from other Caucasians patients.Al-Mahroos F, 1998, DIABETES CARE, V21, P936, DOI 10.2337-diacare.21.6.936; ATKINSON MA, 1994, NEW ENGL J MED, V331, P1428; Bach JM, 1997, J AUTOIMMUN, V10, P375, DOI 10.1006-jaut.1997.0143; Backman VM, 2002, DIABETOLOGIA, V45, P452; DAVIES JL, 1994, NATURE, V371, P130, DOI 10.1038-371130a0; DORMAN JS, 1990, P NATL ACAD SCI USA, V87, P7370, DOI 10.1073-pnas.87.19.7370; EISENBARTH GS, 1986, NEW ENGL J MED, V314, P1360; Ercilla MG, 2001, TISSUE ANTIGENS, V57, P489, DOI 10.1034-j.1399-0039.2001.057005489.x; ERLICH HA, 1991, DIABETES, V40, P478, DOI 10.2337-diabetes.40.4.478; GABER SA, 1994, DIABETES CARE, V17, P1341, DOI 10.2337-diacare.17.11.1341; Gillespie KM, 2002, DIABETES, V51, P210; Haider MZ, 1999, CLIN GENET, V56, P450, DOI 10.1034-j.1399-0004.1999.560608.x; Israel S, 1998, HUM IMMUNOL, V59, P728, DOI 10.1016-S0198-8859(98)00074-3; KAHLIL I, 1990, J CLIN INVEST, V84, P1315; Kawabata Y, 2002, DIABETES, V51, P545; Kelly MA, 2000, DIABETOLOGIA, V43, P450, DOI 10.1007-s001250051328; KHALIL I, 1993, EUR J IMMUNOGENET, V20, P193, DOI 10.1111-j.1744-313X.1993.tb00110.x; Luo DF, 1996, HUM MOL GENET, V5, P693, DOI 10.1093-hmg-5.5.693; Petrone A, 2001, TISSUE ANTIGENS, V58, P385, DOI 10.1034-j.1399-0039.2001.580607.x; Pirie FJ, 2001, TISSUE ANTIGENS, V57, P348, DOI 10.1034-j.1399-0039.2001.057004348.x; Pugliese A, 1999, J CLIN ENDOCR METAB, V84, P1722, DOI 10.1210-jc.84.5.1722; Saruhan-Direskeneli G, 2000, HUM IMMUNOL, V61, P296, DOI 10.1016-S0198-8859(99)00182-2; SERJEANTSON SW, 1991, BAILLIERE CLIN ENDOC, V5, P299, DOI 10.1016-S0950-351X(05)80129-6; She JX, 1996, IMMUNOL TODAY, V17, P323, DOI 10.1016-0167-5699(96)10014-1; She JX, 1998, CURR OPIN IMMUNOL, V10, P682, DOI 10.1016-S0952-7915(98)80089-7; VANDERAUWERA B, 1995, DIABETES, V44, P527, DOI 10.2337-diabetes.44.5.52732
Citadels in Conflict –Dissertation Project–
No full text‘Ciudadelas en los conflictos” es una tesis de Maestría que quiere mostrar cómo el proceso conceptual de la fotografía va de la realidad a la representación por modelos, pero también cómo las representaciones de estos modelos adquieren un nuevo significado, la realidad de virtualismo y la ilusión. Usar instalaciones o interactuar con modelos es inventar imaginarios, o llamar memorias, que podrían ser puestos sobre una base tangible para fotografiarlas después. Quiero reflexionar sobre ciudades imaginarias y la utopía de la guerra y el desplazamiento, imaginando cada foto como una ciudadela. Los modelos construidos que acompañan este texto se entienden como fortalezas, ya que incluyen, a veces al azar, todas las variables sociales, culturales y físicas que las ciudades tienen, como “imitación de la vida”. Una metáfora de las variadas e irónicas miradas de un desplazado, se podrían obtener al llegar a las ciudades o a los lugares urbanos. Por lo tanto, el ciudadano inesperado vive dentro de una ciudadela en el conflicto. El fenómeno de la guerra y el desplazamiento forzado son la cartografía de las nuevas ciudades en Colombia, que se registran en esta obra de una manera triste y satirizada.Abstract
This dissertation Citadels in Conflict wants to show how the conceptual process of photography goes from reality to representation by models, but also how representations of these models acquire a new significance, the reality of virtualism and illusion. To use installations or interact with models is to invent imaginaries –or to call memories– that could be placed on a tangible base… and later photographed. I want to reflect on imaginary cities and the utopia of war and displacement, picturing each photo as a citadel. The constructed models accompanying this text are understood as citadels, for they include –sometimes randomly– all social, cultural and physical variables that cities have, or as “imitations of life”. A metaphor of the varied and ironic glances a desplazado could get when arriving in cities or any other urban places. Therefore, the unexpected citizen dwells inside a citadel in conflict. The phenomena of war and forced displacement are mapping new cities in Colombia in sad and iconic ways as satirized in these sixteen images
Citadels in Conflict –Dissertation Project–
No full text‘Ciudadelas en los conflictos” es una tesis de Maestría que quiere mostrar cómo el proceso conceptual de la fotografía va de la realidad a la representación por modelos, pero también cómo las representaciones de estos modelos adquieren un nuevo significado, la realidad de virtualismo y la ilusión. Usar instalaciones o interactuar con modelos es inventar imaginarios, o llamar memorias, que podrían ser puestos sobre una base tangible para fotografiarlas después. Quiero reflexionar sobre ciudades imaginarias y la utopía de la guerra y el desplazamiento, imaginando cada foto como una ciudadela. Los modelos construidos que acompañan este texto se entienden como fortalezas, ya que incluyen, a veces al azar, todas las variables sociales, culturales y físicas que las ciudades tienen, como “imitación de la vida”. Una metáfora de las variadas e irónicas miradas de un desplazado, se podrían obtener al llegar a las ciudades o a los lugares urbanos. Por lo tanto, el ciudadano inesperado vive dentro de una ciudadela en el conflicto. El fenómeno de la guerra y el desplazamiento forzado son la cartografía de las nuevas ciudades en Colombia, que se registran en esta obra de una manera triste y satirizada.Abstract
This dissertation Citadels in Conflict wants to show how the conceptual process of photography goes from reality to representation by models, but also how representations of these models acquire a new significance, the reality of virtualism and illusion. To use installations or interact with models is to invent imaginaries –or to call memories– that could be placed on a tangible base… and later photographed. I want to reflect on imaginary cities and the utopia of war and displacement, picturing each photo as a citadel. The constructed models accompanying this text are understood as citadels, for they include –sometimes randomly– all social, cultural and physical variables that cities have, or as “imitations of life”. A metaphor of the varied and ironic glances a desplazado could get when arriving in cities or any other urban places. Therefore, the unexpected citizen dwells inside a citadel in conflict. The phenomena of war and forced displacement are mapping new cities in Colombia in sad and iconic ways as satirized in these sixteen images
