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Religious pathways to coping with personal death anxiety among older adult British Christians and Chinese Buddhists: afterlife beliefs, psychosocial maturity and regret management
No full textReligion was proposed to account for the relatively low personal death anxiety found among older adults. This dissertation sought to examine the influence of religious afterlife beliefs, religiously enhanced psychosocial maturity and religious management of a past major regret on personal death anxiety in later life. Terror Management Theory and Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory were used to describe these three religious pathways to coping with personal death anxiety in later life. The cross-sectional postal survey samples consisted of 143 older adult British Christians and 141 older adult Chinese Buddhists. Structural Equation Modelling results from the British Christian survey study showed that intrinsic religiosity predicted lower personal death anxiety through: (a) fostering more benign afterlife beliefs; (b) enhancing psychosocial maturity; and (c) promoting emotional stability. No significant relationship between belief in reincarnation and personal death anxiety was found in the Chinese Buddhist survey study. Both survey studies failed to support the personal death anxiety buffering power of religious management of a past major life regret, although some religious coping strategies were associated with lower negative emotional appraisal towards the major life regret among older adults. The British survey study has been the first to demonstrate both the personal death anxiety buffering and psychosocial maturity enhancing power of religion in an increasingly secular society. The lack of relationship between Buddhist reincarnation beliefs and personal death anxiety suggests that not all religious afterlife beliefs have death anxiety buffering power as proposed by Terror Management Theory. The development of Buddhist reincarnation belief and Buddhist coping scales is a pioneering step towards developing research on under-explored Eastern non-theistic afterlife beliefs and coping measures. Implications for ways that help religious older adults cope with their personal death anxiety were discussed. Prospective cross cultural and cross-religion studies were recommended to replicate the present survey findings. Finally, self detachment (self negation) was proposed as the basis of an alternative death transcendence theory to be researched in future studies on personal death anxiety
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No full textTranslation of: Book of Mormon.Mode of access: Internet.Autograph presentation copy to George Q. Cannon from "J.F.S." (Joseph Fielding Smith?
Interpretation of experience and metaphor in George Lakoff’s philosophy.
No full textBakalaura darbs „Pieredzes un metaforas interpretācija Džordža Lekofa filozofijā” ir pētnieciskas ievirzes darbs, kura mērķis ir uzsvērt to, ka metafora nav tikai vārdisks, nejaušs un līdzībā balstīts valodisks veidojums, bet gan metafora ir konceptuāla, sastāvoša no pieredzes laukiem un attēlošanas no viena pieredzes lauka otrā, kas nav nejauši, bet balstās mūsu ķeremeniskajā pieredzē. Lai sasniegtu savu mērķi, tiek veidota atbilstoša darba struktūra un analizēta atbilstoša literatūra. Darbs ir strukturēts četrās nodaļās. Pirmā nodaļa veltīta filozofiska konteksta analīzei, lai aplūkotu galvenās pieejas metaforas analīzē un parādītu to, ka ir filozofi, kuri uzskata, ka metaforas ir tikai vārdiski, nejauši un līdzībā balstīti valodiski izteikumi. Darba otrajā nodaļā tiek raksturota pieredzes loma Džordža Lekofa filozofijā, kas ir būtiski, jo tas ir metaforu pamats. Metaforas un pieredzes attiecības ir korelatīvas, jo pieredzi strukturē multidimensionāli geštalti, kas ļauj viena koncepta terminiem būt strukturētiem cita koncepta terminos, kas nav nejauši, jo balstās mūsu ikdienas ķermeniskajā pieredzē. Darba trešajā nodaļā tiek raksturots tēlshēmas jēdziens, tā izcelsme, nozīme Džordža Lekofa un Marka Džonsona darbos, kā arī tēlshēmu attiecības ar metaforām. Tēlshēmas ir būtiskas, jo tā ir saikne starp metaforiskajiem izteikumiem, konceptiem un ķermenisko pieredzi. Tēlshēma sniedz konceptu, kas ir metaforas sākotnējais pieredzes lauks, kas tiek attēlots rezultatīvajā pieredzes laukā jeb abstraktajā konceptā. Darba pēdējā – ceturtā – nodaļa ir veltīta metaforu piemēru analīzei, kas atspoguļo, pirmkārt, to, ka metaforas ir konceptuālas, ka tās sastāv no diviem pieredzes laukiem un attēlošanu starp tiem un ka metaforas balstītas ķermeniskajā pieredzē. Otrkārt, metaforu piemēru analīze pierāda šī darba autora pieņēmumu, ka Džordža Lekofa metaforu iedalījumam ir nozīme, kaut arī pats Dž. Lekofs apgalvojis, ka iedalījums ir mākslīgs un nav vērā ņemams. Ceturtās nodaļas beigās tiek iezīmētas konceptuālās metafora teorijas perspektīvas un pielietojums dažādās zinātņu disciplīnās, piemēram, tiesību zinātnē, matemātikā, politikas zinātnē, sociālajās zinātnē, u.c.
Atslēgas vārdi: konceptuālā metafora, pieredze, tēlshēma, Džordžs Lekofs.Bachelor thesis on the subject „Interpretation of experience and metaphor in George Lakoff’s philosophy” aims to prove that metaphor is not mere linguistic expression which is matter of words, occasional or built on similarity, but metaphor is conceptual, consists of two domains and mapping one domain onto another with basis in our bodily experience. For reaching this aim appropriate structure of thesis is made and literature analysed. Thesis consists of four chapters. In chapter number one author explicates the philosophical context for characterizing the mainstream approaches to the interpretations of metaphor and for indicating ideas of philosophers who claim that metaphors are just matter of words, occasional or built on similarity. In chapter number two the author characterizes the role of experience in George Lakoff’s philosophy, which is important because it is basis for all metaphors. Relation between metaphor and experience is correlative because of multidimensional gestalts structure experience that allow to structure one concept in terms of another. And it is not occasional because this structuring is built on our everyday embodied experience. In chapter number three the author characterizes concept of the image schema, its beginning and meaning in George Lakoff’s and Mark Johnson’s works, and relations between image schemas and metaphors. Image schemas are essential because they are links among metaphorical expressions, concepts and bodily experience. Image schema serves a concept for the source of metaphor domain which is mapped onto target domain, that is, abstract concept. The last chapter is devoted for analysis of metaphorical expressions. This analysis reflects, first, that metaphors are conceptual and consist of two domains and of mapping between them. Also it shows that metaphors are based on our bodily experience. Second, analysis reflects author’s assumption about George Lakoff’s metaphor division significance, namely, Lakoff claim that his division is artificial and meaningless. At the end of chapter number four author sketches applications of the theory of George Lakoff. For example, theory of conceptual metaphor is applied in law, politics, social science, mathematics, etc.
Keywords: conceptual metaphor, experience, image schema, George Lakoff
Una interpretación de a-ka-na-jo ( a3-ka-na-jo)
No full textThe author studies the word a-ka-na-jo in the PY Cn 328 tablet and taking into account some factors she proposes αγναιος as the reading of this word.The author studies the word a-ka-na-jo in the PY Cn 328 tablet and taking into account some factors she proposes αγναιος as the reading of this word
“Chanson, rap, slam” : portrait de George Ka. Un rap qui raconte
No full textArticle écrit par Noémie Agogué, Adrien Brault, Clara Languille, Madelyn Lines, Eve Mandicourt, Armance Périot, étudiant.es en M1 Littérature Générale et Comparée Ma bouche sera la bouche des malheurs qui n’ont point de bouche, ma voix, la liberté de celles qui s’affaissent au cachet du désespoir Cette phrase d’Aimé Césaire est citée par Camille, alias George Ka, qui en fait, lors d’une vidéo Instagram avec Levi’s datant de l’automne dernier, sinon le cœur de son projet d’écriture, le mo..
Environmental influences over the last 16 ka on compound-specific δ13C variations of leaf wax n-alkanes in the Hani peat deposit from northeast China
No full textCompound-specific carbon isotope ratios (δ13C) of leaf wax n-alkanes (C21-C33 odd carbon numbered n-alkanes) were measured in the Hani peat sequence from northeast China. These data were compared with lipid biomarker compositions to assess changes in local vegetation and paleoclimate for the last 16 ka The δ13C values of n-alkanes range between -36.6 and -30.7‰, showing that the compounds originate from C3 plants. Much larger variations (∼5.4‰) in the n-alkane δ13C values than those of atmospheric CO2 during the last 16 ka (< 0.5‰) indicate that the isotopic values were affected by environmental factors in addition to the postglacial δ13C variations in the atmospheric reservoir. The stratigraphic records of δ13C reveal decoupled fluctuations among the individual n-alkanes, particularly between 15.5 to 11.4 ka. Synchronous excursions in the δ13C offsets among individual n-alkanes (Δδ13C) and lipid biomarker paleoplant proxies (Paq, and C23/C31 and C27/C31) from 14.9 to 13.2 ka and 12.7 to 11.6 ka suggest that vegetational changes are the most likely causes for the decoupled δ13C variations. Parallel fluctuations of the δ13C values of terrestrial higher plant-derived C29 and C31 n-alkanes and the n-alkane average chain-length (ACL) from 11 to 6 ka indicate that the δ13C variations responded to net evaporation changes. Negative shifts in the n-alkane δ13C values coinciding with the ACL decreases at 10.5-9.3 ka and 8.1 ka indicate the short-term onset and fluctuations of the summer monsoon strength in eastern China during the early Holocene
NRF2 and chemoprevention: signaling, epigenetics and role in intestinal carcinogensis
No full textPrevention is better than cure. The carcinogenesis could take as long as 20 to 30 years to develop from initiated cells to malignant tumor, therefore providing us various opportunities to prevent the appearance of tumors with the use of chemopreventive compounds in the early stage. Chemoprevention becomes an increasing important concept and has led to the intense research about the mechanisms of actions of various chemopreventive compounds. They can be generally classified into blocking agents and suppressing agents. The chemopreventive compounds usually prevent or slow progression of cancer by maintaining a low oxidative stress and inflammatory environment in cells. This is brought about by the activation of Nrf2, the key protein being investigated in our lab. In this dissertation, I will be discussing the use of compounds as suppressing agents and blocking agents, how compounds activates Nrf2 signaling, how novel Nrf2 interaction partner IQGAP1 mediates Nrf2-Keap1 signaling axis, how expression level of Nrf2 could be regulated epigenetically, apart from the well-known post-translational control by Keap1-Ubiquitinase-Protesome axis and finally how loss of Nrf2 could enhance intestinal tumorigenesis in Apc(min/+) mice.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Ka Lung Cheun
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