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Effects of nanocrystalline calcium deficient hydroxyapatite incorporation in glass ionomer cements
No full textAbstract not availableSumit Goenka, Rajkamal Balu, T.S. Sampath Kuma
Factor Intensity Reversal and Ergodic Chaos
No full textThis paper studies a two-sector endogenous growth model with labour augmenting externalities or Harrod-Neutral technical change. The technologies are general and the preferences are of the CES class. If con- sumers are su±ciently patient, ergodic chaos and geometric sensitivity to initial conditions can emerge if either (1) there is factor intensity reversal; or (2) if the consumption goods producing sector is always capital intensive. The upper bound on the discount rate is determined only by the transver- sality condition. If utility is linear, there can be chaos only if there is factor intensity reversalErgodic Chaos; Two-sector endogenous growth model; Factor intensity reversal; Labor-augmenting externalities
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Fundamentos filosóficos e praxiológicos da meditação vipassana de Mahasi Sayadaw (1904-1982) e S. N. Goenka (1924-2013) e suas raízes no budismo Theravada
No full textThis thesis aims to present the historical genealogy of the contemporary schools of the Vipassana Movement, which emerged in the 19th century in Southeast Asia, more specifically in Myanmar, and to investigate the philosophical and praxiological foundations of two of the most recognized of these schools and their respective methods, namely, the schools of Mahāsī Sayādaw (1904-1982) and S. N. Goenka (1924-2013). More specifically, the thesis deals with the canonical foundations of these two schools of meditation, focusing on the disciplinary tripartition of “virtue” (sīla), “concentration” (samatha) and “analytical wisdom” (vipassanā), whose canonical sources are the Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta – The Great Sutras on the Foundations of Mindfulness, and the treatise Visuddhimagga – The Path of Purification, by Buddhaghosa. In the investigation of the two methods, their philosophical and praxiological foundations are discussed, their disciplinary structures represented by retreats, daily practices and the masterdisciple/teacher-student relationship, and the continuities and discontinuities in relation to predecessor masters and to the Theravāda tradition as a wholeA presente tese tem por objetivo apresentar a genealogia histórica das escolas contemporâneas do Movimento Vipassana, surgidas no século XIX no sudeste asiático, mais especificamente em Mianmar, e investigar os fundamentos filosóficos e praxiológicos de duas das mais reconhecidas dessas escolas e seus respectivos métodos, a saber, a escola de Mahāsī Sayādaw (1904-1982) e a escola de S. N. Goenka (1924-2013) e suas respectivas literaturas. Mais especificamente, a tese trata dos fundamentos canônicos dessas duas escolas de meditação, com foco na tripartição disciplinar da “virtude” (sīla), “concentração” (samatha) e “sabedoria analítica” (vipassanā), cujas fontes canônicas são o Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta – O Grande Sutras dos Fundamentos da Consciência Plena, e o tratado Visuddhimagga – O Caminho da Purificação, de Buddhaghosa. Na investigação dos dois métodos discutem-se seus fundamentos filosóficos e praxiológicos, suas estruturas disciplinares representadas pelos retiros, pelas práticas cotidianas e pela relação mestre-discípulo/professor-aluno, e as continuidades e descontinuidades com relação aos mestres predecessores e com a tradição Theravāda como um todo
Ritualdiskurs, Ritualkritik und religiöse Praxis: Das Beispiel von Vipassanā nach S. N. Goenka im 'Westen'
No full textBy analysing primary sources, I show in this paper how the Vipassanā meditation movement publicly objects to being categorized as a religious movement that teaches
a certain form of ritual. I argue that the application of the meta-language terms “ritual”
or “religion” to the practices taught by this movement, even though it is doubtlessly
possible, does not help us solve the problems in explaining this fact; nor does it help
in analysing the movement and its history. I argue that it is more appropriate to understand the polemic differentiation by Vipassanā as a strategy in a “modern” public discourse on religion and ritual. It seems that the reason for applying this strategy lies in
the wish to avoid being identified with negative connotations of the terms “ritual” and
“religion,” such as inefficacy, irrationality and exaggerated rigidity. Instead, the protagonists stress rationality, efficacy and adaptation to the necessities of modern Western society. On the other hand, the movement also draws a line between itself and a so-called modern “esotericism” in which “rituals” are regarded as highly positive in
their effects on humans
Biological approach for management of anterior tooth trauma: Triple case report
No full textAnterior crown fractures are a common form of injury that mainly affect children and adolescents. The position of maxillary incisors and their eruptive pattern carries a significant risk for trauma. In the pre-adhesive era, fractured teeth needed to be restored either with pin-retained inlays or cast restorations that sacrificed healthy tooth structure and were a challenge for clinicians to match with adjacent teeth. The development of adhesive dentistry has allowed dentists to use the patient′s own fragment to restore the fractured tooth. Three cases are presented here with complicated crown fracture of maxillary central incisors; the reattachment of the fractured tooth segment in this case has been performed using different combinations of techniques, viz. simple reattachment, circumferential bevel and internal dentinal groove
Fluid flow analysis behind heliostat using LES and RANS: A step towards optimized field design in desert regions
No full textDispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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