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Kinds of Desire Terms modified by Desire Selected AbstractsProspects for diffusion enhancement of signal and resolution in magnetic resonance microscopyCONCEPTS IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE, Issue 2 2003Charles H. Pennington Abstract The prospects for and practical requirements of the "diffusion enhancement of signal and resolution" (DESIRE) scheme proposed by Lauterbur as a method to enhance the sensitivity, spatial resolution, and contrast in magnetic resonance (MR) microscopy and localized MR spectroscopy is assessed. The method, which still has not been implemented, promises signal enhancements of 1,2 orders of magnitude in imaging or localized spectroscopy on the scale of ,10 microns and requires magnetic field gradient strengths (,10 T/m) that are not unreasonable. I emphasize the development of an understanding of the physical principles involved in this unfamiliar, "real-space" imaging method. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Concepts Magn Reson Part A 19A: 71,79, 2003. [source] THE OBJECT OF DESIRE SPEAKS: INGEBORG BACHMANN'S ,UNDINE GEHT' AND LUCE IRIGARAY 'S ,WOMAN'GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS, Issue 2 2008Lorraine Markotic ABSTRACT This article presents a detailed examination of Ingeborg Bachmann's ,Undine geht'. It argues for the uniqueness of this work: the text's astonishing ability to depict an object who is also a subject, able to articulate her otherness. Undine is a speaking and desiring subject at the same time as she remains an object of projection. The article compares Bachmann's short story with Irigaray's extensive philosophical and feminist project, showing the many ways in which ,Undine geht' anticipates (and is ultimately more successful than) Irigaray's concept of ,woman' and her mimetic strategy. Bachmann's Undine subversively mimes what she represents; she both incarnates and eludes her representation as man's imaginary other. While ,Undine geht' appears to provide an alternative conception of female subjectivity or to articulate repressed female desire, it ultimately explores the radical complexity of these concepts. Bachmann's short story illustrates, moreover, the salience of Irigaray's attempt to examine the way in which language constructs and reproduces sexual difference. ,Undine geht' goes further, however, by also exploring the constitutive role of narrative and culture in subjectivity. The text is less an account of a female figure who finds her voice than of the difficulty and impediments to so doing. [source] Functional imaging with FENSI: Flow-enhanced signal intensityMAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE, Issue 2 2007Bradley P. Sutton Abstract Flow measurement methods for functional MRI (fMRI) are desirable as they are more closely tied to neuronal activity than the commonly used blood oxygenation techniques. In this work we introduce a flow-based functional imaging method. The method, called flow enhancement of signal intensity (FENSI), is an extension of the diffusion enhancement of signal and resolution (DESIRE) method from MR microscopy. The FENSI method offers a localized flow-weighted signal across a very thin slice (0.4 mm in this study) that provides a signal enhancement that is dependent on the velocity and direction of the flow. The FENSI method was implemented on a human 3 T system and applied to a blocked visual cognitive task. Activation maps showed good localization and the measured signal changes of around 10% were in good agreement with the predicted enhancements. Magn Reson Med 58:396,401, 2007. © 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] EROS AND/AS DESIRE,A THEOLOGICAL AFFIRMATION: PAUL TILLICH READ IN THE LIGHT OF JEAN-LUC MARION'S THE EROTIC PHENOMENONMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 2 2010JAN-OLAV HENRIKSEN The article interprets Tillich's varied elaborations on different aspects of eros, mainly in his Systematic Theology, by reading them in the light of Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenological description of eros in its various aspects in The Erotic Phenomenon. The erotic in Tillich not only has to do with sex and desire, but also with his commitment to a realistic approach to what it means to be human, to human culture, and to confronting false and estranging interpretations of basic human phenomena. What seems to be missing in Tillich, however, is a more comprehensive treatment of eros/desire that would make possible an understanding of the phenomenological (and consequently existential) fullness of this phenomenon. I suggest that this can be achieved by reading Tillich by way of Marion's phenomenological analysis. This also has the virtue of overcoming the all-too abstract character of Tillich's reasoning without at the same time dismissing Tillich's treatment of eros. I will also draw out some implications for how one might deal with eros and desire in the emerging discussion in present systematic theology. [source] THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS AS PREDICTORS OF EXPATRIATE'S DESIRE TO TERMINATE THE ASSIGNMENT AND SUPERVISOR-RATED PERFORMANCEPERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 1 2000PAULA M. CALIGIURI Applying the evolutionary theory of personality, this study proposed and tested the hypotheses that each of the Big Five personality characteristics (Extroversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Openness or Intellect) predict two criteria of expatriate success: (a) desire to prematurely terminate the expatriate assignment, and (b) supervisor-rated performance on the expatriate assignment. The participants were 143 expatriate employees (and 94 supervisors) from a U.S.-based information technology company. Results from correlation and regression analyses suggest that Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Emotional Stability are negatively related to whether expatriates desire to terminate their assignment. Conscientiousness is positively related to the supervisor-rated performance on the expatriate assignment. Practical implications for expatriate management (e.g., self-selection) are given. [source] DIALECTICS OF DESIRE AND THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF ALTERITY: FROM LEVINAS TO KIERKEGAARD VIA LACAN1THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 3 2007BRIAN HARDING First page of article [source] MOTHERING, FATHERING, AND DIVORCE: THE INFLUENCE OF DIVORCE ON REPORTS OF AND DESIRES FOR MATERNAL AND PATERNAL INVOLVEMENT*FAMILY COURT REVIEW, Issue 3 2009Seth J. Schwartz The present study investigated the extent to which young adults' reports of,and desires for,maternal and paternal involvement differed between intact and divorced families. An ethnically diverse sample of 1,376 young adults completed measures of reported and desired mothering and fathering across 20 parenting domains. Results indicated that both reports of and desires for father involvement differed sharply by family form (intact versus divorced), whereas few family form differences emerged for reported or desired mother involvement. These findings are discussed in terms of implications for custody and access decisions within the family court system. [source] God, the Mind's Desire: Reference, Reason and Christian ThinkingCONVERSATIONS IN RELIGION & THEOLOGY, Issue 2 2005Article first published online: 11 OCT 200 Books reviewed: Paul D. Janz, God, the Mind's Desire: Reference, Reason and Christian Thinking Reviewed by Louise Hickman [source] Desire and the Prosthetics of Supervision: A Case of Maquiladora FlexibilityCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 3 2001Melissa W. Wright [source] Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire,by William T. CavanaughDIALOG, Issue 2 2010Lake Lambert No abstract is available for this article. [source] "A Certain Irritation": The White House, the State Department, and the Desire for a Naval Settlement with Great Britain, 1927,1930DIPLOMATIC HISTORY, Issue 5 2007B. j. c. Mckercher First page of article [source] Effect of isometric exercise and body scanning on cigarette cravings and withdrawal symptomsADDICTION, Issue 7 2009Michael Ussher ABSTRACT Aims To examine the acute effects of a guided relaxation routine (body scan) and isometric exercise on desire to smoke and tobacco withdrawal symptoms. Design Experimental comparison of three conditions. Participants Forty-eight individuals reporting smoking ,10 cigarettes daily. Intervention Random assignment to one of three interventions delivered via a 10-minute audio: isometric exercise (IE, n = 14), body scanning (BS, n = 18) or a reading about natural history (control group, n = 16). Interventions were delivered twice on the same day: in the laboratory, then in their ,normal' environment. Measurements Desire to smoke (primary outcome) and withdrawal symptoms were rated at pre-intervention and up to 30 minutes post-intervention. Findings Controlling for baseline scores, post-intervention desire to smoke and withdrawal symptoms were significantly lower for IE and BS groups, compared with the controls, in both environments. There were no significant differences for IE versus BS. For desire to smoke, controlling for baseline values, ratings in the laboratory were significantly lower for IE and BS versus the control up to 30 minutes post-intervention. In the normal environment, these ratings were significantly lower only up to 5 minutes post-intervention. Conclusions Brief IE and BS interventions are effective for reducing desire to smoke and withdrawal symptoms in temporarily abstaining smokers. These interventions were found to be more effective in the laboratory than in the smoker's normal environment, but this may be an artefact of there not being a sufficient ,wash-out' period between interventions. These techniques may be beneficial for managing desire to smoke and tobacco withdrawal. [source] Adolescent Mothers' Perceptions of Fathers' Parental Involvement: Satisfaction and Desire for Involvement,FAMILY RELATIONS, Issue 3 2007Melissa J. Herzog Abstract: Grounded in family systems and ecological theories, this study examined teenage mothers' perceptions of fathers' parental involvement and the role of teenage mothers' gatekeeping beliefs. Fathers' involvement was perceived to be greater when teenage parents were romantically involved (n = 55). When they no longer shared a romantic relationship (n = 59), mothers' satisfaction with and desire for fathers' involvement (i.e., gatekeeping beliefs) mediated the association between mothers' perceptions of developmental and contextual factors and their perceptions of fathers' involvement. Overall, the proposed developmental-contextual model was not significant for romantically involved teenage parents. Findings underscore the need to account for and incorporate issues related to relationship status, grandparent support, historical support, and maternal gatekeeping beliefs when developing programs for adolescent parents. [source] Between Medieval Men: Male Friendship and Desire in Early Medieval English Literature by David ClarkGENDER & HISTORY, Issue 2 2010CLARE A. LEES No abstract is available for this article. [source] Calamus in Bolton: Spirituality and Homosexual Desire in Late Victorian EnglandGENDER & HISTORY, Issue 2 2001Harry Cocks In 1885 a small group of men began to meet regularly in Bolton, England, to discuss the poetry of Walt Whitman. They thought that Whitman's writings could provide the basis of a new religion, as well as offering spiritual guidance for the people in an age of mass politics. Intense friendships developed between some of the group as well as an interest in the nature of homosexuality. In order to explain their own quasi-homosexual attachments, they created a new understanding of spiritual love and of an alternate self. These ideas influenced and were influenced by the work of Edward Carpenter. [source] Pathways to help-seeking in bulimia nervosa and binge eating problems: A concept mapping approachINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EATING DISORDERS, Issue 6 2007Natasha Hepworth PhD Abstract Objective: To conduct an in-depth study, using concept mapping, of three factors related to help-seeking for bulimia nervosa and binge eating: problem recognition, barriers to help-seeking, and prompts to help-seeking. Method: Semistructured interviews were conducted to elicit information about help-seeking with 63 women (18,62 years) with past or present bulimic behaviors. Results: Using Leximancer software, factors identified as associated with problem recognition were Changes in Behavior, Interference with Life Roles, Comments about Changes and Psychological Problems. Salient barriers to help-seeking were Fear of Stigma, Low Mental Health Literacy/Perception of Need, Shame, Fear of Change and Cost. Prompts to help-seeking were increased Symptom Severity, Psychological Distress, Interference with Life Roles, Health Problems, and Desire to Get Better. Conclusion: Results highlighted the need for awareness campaigns to reduce both self and perceived stigma by others towards bulimic behaviors, and the need to enhance awareness of available interventions for people ready to engage in treatment, to increase help-seeking. © 2007 by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] Power, Borders, Security, Wealth: Lessons of Violence and Desire from September 11INTERNATIONAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, Issue 3 2004Anna M. Agathangelou America's "war on terror" and Al Qaeda's "jihad" reflect mirror strategies of imperial politics. Each camp transnationalizes violence and insecurity in the name of national or communal security. Neoliberal globalization underpins this militarization of daily life. Its desire industries motivate and legitimate elite arguments (whether from "infidels" or "terrorists") that society must sacrifice for its hypermasculine leaders. Such violence and desire draw on colonial identities of Self vs. Other, patriotism vs. treason, hunter vs. prey, and masculinity vs. femininity that are played out on the bodies of ordinary men and women. We conclude with suggestions of a human security to displace the elite privilege that currently besets world politics. [source] Sex Hormones and Sexual DesireJOURNAL FOR THE THEORY OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, Issue 1 2008JAMES GILES ABSTRACT Some scholars attempt to explain sexual desire biologically by claiming that sex hormones play a necessary causal role in sexual desire. This can be claimed even if sexual desire is seen to be an experience. Yet the evidence for such biological essentialism is inadequate. With males the loss of sexual desire following hormonal changes can easily be explained in terms of social stigmas that are attached to the physiological situation. Concerning females, the relevance of sex hormones here is even more unclear. Although some women seem to have fluctuations in sexual desire during hormonal changes, other women do not. Even where there are such fluctuations these can be explained by responses to other physiological changes or the meanings that are attached to the situation. Research with non-human primates supports this view of the non-essential relation of sex hormones to sexual desire. A phenomenology of sex hormones is given that shows a possible non-essential relation between sex hormones and sexual desire. Here hormone induced excitations in the genitals may or may not lead to sexual desire depending on the meaning they are given within awareness. This suggests that sexual desire has its origin in the meanings we give our biology and not in our biology itself. [source] Unmet Desire for Caregiver-Patient Communication and Increased Caregiver BurdenJOURNAL OF AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY, Issue 1 2005Terri R. Fried MD Objectives: To examine the adequacy of caregiver-patient communication in serious illness and its relationship to caregiver burden. Design: Cross-sectional cohort study. Setting: Participants' homes. Participants: One hundred ninety-three persons aged 60 and older seriously ill with cancer, congestive heart failure, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and their caregivers. Measurements: Communication concerns, measured in terms of agreement with statements regarding desire for and difficulty with communication about the patient's illness. Caregiver burden, measured using a 10-item subset of the Zarit Burden Inventory, with scores ranging from 0 to 40 and higher scores indicating greater burden. Results: Of caregivers, 39.9% desired more communication, and 37.3% reported that communication was difficult. Of patients, 20.2% desired more communication, and 22.3% reported that communication was difficult. Disagreement regarding communication concerns was frequent in caregiver-patient pairs; of caregivers who desired more communication, 83.1% of patients did not, and of patients who desired more communication, 66.7% of caregivers did not. Caregivers who desired more communication had significantly higher caregiver burden scores than did caregivers who did not (9.2 vs 4.7, P<.001), even after adjusting for patient's diagnosis, income, and functional status and caregivers' age, sex, and relationship to the patient. Conclusion: A large proportion of caregivers and seriously ill older persons had an unmet desire for increased communication, although they frequently disagreed with each other about this desire. Caregivers' desire for increased communication may be a modifiable determinant of caregiver burden. [source] Assessing suicide risk among callers to crisis hotlines: A confirmatory factor analysis,JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 9 2010Tracy K. Witte Abstract Our goal was to investigate the factor structure of a risk assessment tool utilized by suicide hotlines and to determine the predictive validity of the obtained factors in predicting subsequent suicidal behavior. We conducted an Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), an EFA in a Confirmatory Factor Analysis (EFA/CFA) framework, and a CFA on independent subsamples derived from a total sample of 1,085. Similar to previous studies, we found consistent evidence for a two-factor solution, with one factor representing a more pernicious form of suicide risk (i.e., Resolved Plans and Preparations; RPP) and one factor representing milder suicidal ideation (i.e., Suicidal Desire and Ideation; SDI). The RPP factor trended toward being more predictive of suicidal ideation at follow-up than the SDI factor. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 66:1,24, 2010. [source] An Open Mind Wants More: Opinion Strength and the Desire for Genetically Modified Food Labeling PolicyJOURNAL OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, Issue 3 2008SONJA RADAS Two opposing viewpoints exist in the literature; some suggest consumers are unconcerned and do not desire any genetically modified labeling, while others indicate the opposite. The mixed results may be because consumers make finer distinctions than surveys have called for, and have evaluation schemes sensitive to information about the benefits and risks associated with genetically modified foods. We find consumers are quite nuanced in their preferences for genetically modified labeling policy. Unexpectedly, consumers with less-defined views desire mandatory labeling of the most stringent type, while consumers with stronger viewpoints (either pro- or con-genetically modified) are more relaxed in their labeling requirements. [source] Agricultural Hybridity and the "Pathology" of Traditional Ways: The Translation of Desire and Need in Postcolonial DevelopmentJOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2004Chris J. Shepherd RESUMEN Este trabajo conecta el análisis de traducción en la Téoria de Red de Actores de la Sociología de la Ciencia con la Antropología del Desarrollo, a in de considerar el pro ceso por el cual los proyectos de desarrollo efectúan cambios en el conocimiento y la práctica de la agricultura andina. El enfoque de la traducción es en los deseos y necesidades de los campesinos andinos cuando estos se comprometen con organiza ciones de desarrollo agrícola no gubernamentales que tratan de difundir las tecnologías de la agricultura cientíica. Recurriendo a datos etnográicos obtenidos en los Andes del sur del Perú, este trabajo sigue las construcciones del deseo y la necesidad que hacen el desarrollo tan plausible cuanto problemático, dadas las diferencias entre el saber del personal de proyectos de desarrollo y el saber local. Se concluye que en los casos en que estas diferencias convergen en nuevos amalgamas de conocimiento del desarrollo y prácticas locales, los híbridos emergentes deben ser tanto historicizados como politiza dos, en vez de ser simplemente interpretados como mezclas sincrónicas de prácticas culturales. [source] The Performance of Desire: Gender and Sexual Negotiation in Long-Term MarriagesJOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY, Issue 2 2008Sinikka Elliott We integrate theoretical traditions on the social construction of gender, heterosexuality, and marriage with research and theory on emotion work to guide a qualitative investigation of how married people understand and experience sex in marriage. Results, based on 62 in-depth interviews, indicate that married men and women tend to believe that sex is integral to a good marriage and that men are more sexual than women. Moreover, husbands and wives commonly experience conflict around sex and undertake emotion work to manage their own and their spouse's feelings about sex. We refer to this emotion work as "performing desire" and show how it is linked to gendered experiences in marriage and to competing cultural discourses around gender, heterosexuality, and marriage. [source] Patients' Desire to Keep Their Babies in Their Rooms: What Does That Mean for Unit Staffing?JOURNAL OF OBSTETRIC, GYNECOLOGIC & NEONATAL NURSING, Issue 2010Professional Issues No abstract is available for this article. [source] Sexual Desire, Moral Choice, and Human EndsJOURNAL OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY, Issue 2 2002Laurence Thomas First page of article [source] The Reintroduction of Ethics to Eighteenth-Century Literary StudiesLITERATURE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 7 2010Elizabeth Kraft The 1980s and 1990s witnessed a ,turn to ethics' in literary criticism in general and in criticism of the literature of the long 18th century in particular. Wayne Booth's The Company We Keep was instrumental in turning our attention to the relationship between books and readers, a relationship that he figured as a ,friendship' with the kinds of ethical demands that attend all friendships. A highly regarded work, Company influenced subsequent studies, such as my Character and Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Comic Fiction, but it was not until critics such as Melvyn New and Donald Wehrs began to situate literary analysis in terms drawn from the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas that ,ethical criticism' of the field would become an identifiable ,school' of 18th-century studies. Building on, but diverging from, the political emphases of race, class, and gender, ethical critics insist on the ,otherness' of the text and its resistance to our ideologies and assumptions. My Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire, for example, reads the works of women writers as statements of ethical agency rather than as evidence of political objectification. Edward Tomarken's Genre and Ethics similarly attends to the voices of literary works in their own contexts, meeting them face-to-face (in Levinasian terms) before asking questions regarding political implications or assumptions. The ,turn to ethics' is not a turn away from politics, however, for the impact of the ethical encounter will have real-world consequences. Therefore, ecocriticism and disability studies are likely to become growth areas in 18th-century ethical readings in the near future as these concerns surfaced in the period itself and are two subjects that dominate our own social, political, and ethical lives as well. [source] Desire, Gift, and Recognition: Christology and Postmodern Philosophy , By Jan-Olav HenriksenMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 4 2010Paul Dafydd Jones No abstract is available for this article. [source] Desire to survive emotional pain related to self-harm: A Norwegian hermeneutic studyNURSING & HEALTH SCIENCES, Issue 1 2010Anne Lise Holm rpn, mnsc Abstract The aim of this study was to explore and interpret women's desire to survive emotional pain related to self-harm. Women who suffer from borderline personality disorder describe emotional pain as intense. Previous research indicates that self-harm is a way of obtaining emotional relief and offers an escape from unwanted emotions, thoughts, and/or distressing situations. An explorative, interpretative design was employed. The data were collected by means of in-depth interviews with a sample of women resident in Norway suffering from borderline personality disorder and were analyzed using a hermeneutic approach. The findings revealed one main theme, self-sacrifice, and two other themes, self-harm (a struggle to be relieved of responsibility) and a fear of intimacy versus intrusion. This study indicates that self-sacrifice appears to imply a longing for reconnection with the self and others. To preserve their self-image, the women require courage to survive the painful state of unworthiness. [source] Sites of Desire, Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the PacificAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 1 2000Deborah A. Elliston Sites of Desire, Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific. Lenore Manderson and Margaret Jolly, eds. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xii. 367 pp., figures, notes, bibliography, index. [source] Violating the Mütter: Staging the Semiotics of Desire, or, Aspects of the Eternal-Feminine in "Faust"ORBIS LITERARUM, Issue 2 2000M. Nadeem Niazi The following study seeks to isolate and define the violence of Faust's encounter with the Mütter through a nuanced investigation of the signifying practices governing Faust's first encounters with the other maternal figures prominent in the play, Helen and Gretchen. By problematizing the dichotomy between acting subject and impersonal linguistic processes during the sequence of Faust's ,infatuations' with the maternal-feminine, it is possible to discern the cause of violence against the Mütter and, subsequently, locate its textual manifestation in a mythological pre-figure in the ,Walpurgisnacht'. What takes place between Faust and the Mütter may well exceed the phenomenal modes of dramatic representation involving intersubjective interaction on-stage, but is accessible to discursive elaboration sensitive to the limits and modes of representation. Interrogating the complexities of Faust's encounters alerts us to the semantic depth of the enigmatic designation the ,Eternal-Feminine'. [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||