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Terms modified by Magic Selected AbstractsThe effect of BDNF gene variants on asthma in German childrenALLERGY, Issue 12 2009S. Zeilinger Background:, Allergic inflammation can trigger neuronal dysfunction and structural changes in the airways and the skin. Levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) are strongly up regulated at the location of allergic inflammation. Aim:, We systematically investigated whether polymorphisms in the BDNF gene influence the development or severity of asthma and atopic diseases. Methods:, The BDNF gene was screened for mutations in 80 chromosomes. Genotyping of six BDNF tagging polymorphisms was performed in a cross-sectional study population of 3099 children from Dresden and Munich (age 9,11 years, ISAAC II). Furthermore, polymorphisms were also investigated in an additional 655 asthma cases analysed with a random sample of 767 children selected from ISAAC II. Associations were calculated via chi-square test and anova using SAS Genetics and spss. Results:, We identified nine polymorphisms with minor allele frequency ,0.03, one of them leading to an amino acid change from Valine to Methionine. In the cross-sectional study population, no significant association was found with asthma or any atopic disease. However, when more severe asthma cases from the MAGIC study were analysed, significant asthma effects were observed with rs6265 (odds ratio 1.37, 95% confidence interval 1.14,1.64, P = 0.001), rs11030101 (OR 0.82, 95%CI 0.70,0.95, P = 0.009) and rs11030100 (OR 1.19, 95%CI 1.00,1.42, P = 0.05). Conclusions:, As in previous studies, effects of BDNF polymorphisms on asthma remain controversial. The data may suggest that BDNF polymorphisms contribute to severe forms of asthma. [source] MAGIC J0616+225 as delayed TeV emission of cosmic rays diffusing from the supernova remnant IC 443MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY: LETTERS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 1 2008Diego F. Torres ABSTRACT We present a theoretical model that explains the high-energy phenomenology of the neighbourhood of the supernova remnant IC 443, as observed with the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescope and the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET). We interpret MAGIC J0616+225 as delayed TeV emission of cosmic rays diffusing from IC 443 and interacting with a known cloud located at a distance of about 20 pc in the foreground of the remnant. This scenario naturally explains the displacement between EGRET and MAGIC sources, their fluxes, and their spectra. We compare this model with others recently presented, and discuss how it can be tested with observations by the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope. [source] MAGIC (Myoblast Autologous Grafting in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy)CLINICAL CARDIOLOGY, Issue 2 2007Article first published online: 26 FEB 200 No abstract is available for this article. [source] Spenser's Magic, or Instrumental Aesthetics in the 1590 Faerie QueeneENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE, Issue 2 2006Genevieve Guenther This essay historically contextualizes and analyzes the literary aesthetic Spenser develops in the 1590 Faerie Queene to the end of fashioning his reader in virtuous discipline. Spenser is influenced by Sidney's claim that the metaphysical ideas of virtue conveyed in beautiful poetic images inspire the reader to emulation, but I argue that his epistemology is also affected by the Protestant critique of Neoplatonism and by early modern moral psychology, both of which hold that demons can place deceiving images directly into the subject's imagination. In light of this perceived danger, Spenser develops an "instrumental aesthetics of wonder," whereby the reader is inspired at once to love the beauty of ideas of virtue and to doubt the provenance of their images in his mind's eye. The aesthetics of wonder are instrumental to the end of fashioning the reader, because the reader's wonder over his own imagination enacts the inward-looking self-monitoring that characterizes Spenser's disciplined subject. And the episodes representing demonic magic in the 1590 Faerie Queene most produce this instrumental aesthetic effect, for Spenser represents magic with verse so artfully ambiguous that it becomes impossible for the reader to decide whether the pictures in his mind's eye are poetic or demonic, or both. [source] Weapons of Magic: Afghan Women Asserting Voice via the NetJOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION, Issue 2 2003Beverly Bickel In the global struggle over discourse and knowledge after 9/11, the voices of otherwise silenced women in Afghanistan were significantly amplified on the Internet. RAWA.org demonstrates how a Web site contended with discourses of fundamentalism and war while envisioning democracy and constructing new leadership identities for women. [source] Healing Dramas: Divination and Magic in Modern Puerto Rico by Raquel RombergAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 2 2010STANLEY KRIPPNER No abstract is available for this article. [source] Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar by David GraeberAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 2 2010MARGARET L. BROWN No abstract is available for this article. [source] Ancillary Tools in Pacemaker and Defibrillator Lead Extraction Using a Novel Lead Removal SystemPACING AND CLINICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY, Issue 3 2001ANTONIS S. MANOLIS MANOLIS, A.S., et al.: Ancillary Tools in Pacemaker and Defibrillator Lead Extraction Using a Novel Lead Removal System. A previous report described our preliminary experience with a highly successful pacing lead removal system (VascoExtor). Extending this experience, we found it necessary to use additional tools to enhance the success of percutaneous lead extraction with this system. In the present series, we used the standard locking stylets (S and K), and recently, one newer type of stylet (Magic) over the last 3 years in 34 patients to extract 48 pacemaker leads in 31 patients and 3 defibrillator (ICD) leads in 3 patients. Lead extraction was carried out in 23 men and 11 women (aged 64 ± 17 years) because of pacemaker infection (n = 21), pacemaker (n = 8) or ICD (n = 3) lead malfunction, or prior to ICD implant (n = 2). Leads were in place for 3.5 ± 3.7 years. Infections, involving pocket and lead(s), were due to S. epidermidis (n = 13), S. aureus (n = 6), S. aureus plus E. coli (n = 1), or fungi (n = 1). Of the 48 pacing leads, 31 were ventricular, 15 atrial, and 2 were VDD leads. The ICD leads were two double-coil leads (CPI) and one single-coil lead (Telectronics). Using the S (n = 12), K (n = 8), or Magic (n = 3) stylets, all pacing leads in 23 patients and the ICD leads in 2 patients were successfully removed from a subclavian approach using the locking stylets. However, in nine (26.5%) patients ancillary tools were required. In four patients, lead fragments were captured with use of a noose catheter, a pigtail catheter, and a bioptome from a right femoral approach. In two patients, locking could not be effected and a noose catheter from the right femoral vein was used, aided by a pigtail and an Amplatz catheter and a bioptome to remove three leads. In a patient with an ICD lead, a combined subclavian (stylet S) and right femoral approach (noose catheter) was required. In a patient with a dysfunctional ventricular lead 12 years old, a motor drive unit was used to facilitate the exchange of locking stylets, but extraction failed. In another patient, a fragment of a dysfunctional ventricular lead remained intravascularly despite resorting to a femoral approach. Finally, lead removal was completely (32/34, 94%) or partially (1/34, 3%) successful in 33 (97%) of 34 patients for 50 (98%) of 51 leads without complications. In conclusion, to enhance the success of pacing or ICD lead extraction with use of the VascoExtor locking stylets, an array of ancillary tools were required in more than one fourth of patients. [source] It isn't magic, it's sciencePERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT, Issue 10 2009Dale M. Brethower CPT The foundation in science of human performance technology is exemplified in Geary A. Rummler's work. His work was guided by two questions: What are the variables that measure the results desired? What variables must we manage to achieve those results? Rummler developed science-based tools to find and manage the variables. His work connects to science in ways that illustrate the signature line of his emails: "It Isn't Magic, It's Science." [source] Magic and Divination in Ancient IsraelRELIGION COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 6 2007Ann Jeffers Despite officially condemning all magicians and divinatory practitioners, the Old Testament/Hebrew scriptures is replete with references to magic and divination. In an attempt to map out and understand the great variety of divinatory practices in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible from techniques as varied as astrology, lot casting, necromancy or hepatoscopy to cite only a few, this article will re-examine the concept of ,magic' and re-evaluate the ways in which the Western world, especially since the nineteenth century, has viewed ,magic' as part of a series of dichotomies: religion vs. magic, science vs. magic; ,magic' is even seen as part of gender divisions (magic/women vs. religion/men). ,Emic' and ,etic' categories are also examined and a new definition situating magic as an ,emic' category is proposed: magic and divination are part of a complex system of religious intermediation where all the components of the cosmos interrelate. In this regard, ancient Israel shares the same worldview as its ancient Near Eastern neighbours and in particular a belief in cosmic forces originating and controlled by the dominant deity or deities. While the rational underpinning of such practices are examined (and questions about control and gender touched upon), it is also argued that a proper understanding of magic and divination in ancient Israel can only be viewed as an integral part of its cosmology. An ,emic' definition of magic suggests its connection with Torah and wisdom. [source] Oz in Perspective: Magic and Myth in the L. Frank Baum Books by Richard TuerkTHE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE, Issue 4 2007Kathy Merlock Jackson No abstract is available for this article. [source] Oriented Ensembles in Ultrafast Electron DiffractionCHEMPHYSCHEM, Issue 7 2006J. Spencer Baskin Abstract Electron scattering expressions are presented which are applicable to very general conditions of implementation of anisotropic ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) experiments on the femto- and picosecond time scale. "Magic angle" methods for extracting from the experimental diffraction patterns both the isotropic scalar contribution (population dynamics) and the angular (orientation-dependent) contribution are described. To achieve this result, the molecular scattering intensity is given as an expansion in terms of the moments of the transition-dipole distribution created by the linearly polarized excitation laser pulse. The isotropic component (n=0 moment) depends only on population and scalar internuclear separations, and the higher moments reflect bond angles and evolve in time due to rotational motion of the molecules. This clear analytical separation facilitates assessment of the role of experimental variables in determining the influence of anisotropic orientational distributions of the molecular ensembles on the measured diffraction patterns. Practical procedures to separate the isotropic and anisotropic components of experimental data are evaluated and demonstrated with application to reactions. The influence of vectorial properties (bond angles and rotational dynamics) on the anisotropic component adds a new dimension to UED, arising through the imposition of spatial order on otherwise randomly oriented ensembles. [source] The ,Magic' of ReferencePHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH, Issue 3 2007BARRY STROUD First page of article [source] ,Motor Magic': Evaluation of a community capacity-building approach to supporting the development of preschool childrenAUSTRALIAN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY JOURNAL, Issue 3 2006Naomi Priest Background and Aims:,There is a lack of literature on the evaluation of programmes addressing the motor and sensory development of preschool children. This paper presents and discusses an exploratory evaluation study of the ,Motor Magic' programme run in Adelaide, South Australia. The purpose of this study was to identify outcomes for children, parents and kindergarten staff, as well as develop hypotheses about how these outcomes occurred and in what contexts. Methods:,Using a realist approach, two focus groups were conducted, one with parents and one with kindergarten staff, to develop and refine key hypotheses. Results and Conclusion:,Evaluation results for participating children and parents suggested that this programme provided a model of best practice for supporting the development of preschool-aged children, with or at risk of, developmental delay, within their family and social environments. [source] Hope, belief, magic, and scienceDEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE & CHILD NEUROLOGY, Issue 2 2005David C Taylor No abstract is available for this article. [source] Spenser's Magic, or Instrumental Aesthetics in the 1590 Faerie QueeneENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE, Issue 2 2006Genevieve Guenther This essay historically contextualizes and analyzes the literary aesthetic Spenser develops in the 1590 Faerie Queene to the end of fashioning his reader in virtuous discipline. Spenser is influenced by Sidney's claim that the metaphysical ideas of virtue conveyed in beautiful poetic images inspire the reader to emulation, but I argue that his epistemology is also affected by the Protestant critique of Neoplatonism and by early modern moral psychology, both of which hold that demons can place deceiving images directly into the subject's imagination. In light of this perceived danger, Spenser develops an "instrumental aesthetics of wonder," whereby the reader is inspired at once to love the beauty of ideas of virtue and to doubt the provenance of their images in his mind's eye. The aesthetics of wonder are instrumental to the end of fashioning the reader, because the reader's wonder over his own imagination enacts the inward-looking self-monitoring that characterizes Spenser's disciplined subject. And the episodes representing demonic magic in the 1590 Faerie Queene most produce this instrumental aesthetic effect, for Spenser represents magic with verse so artfully ambiguous that it becomes impossible for the reader to decide whether the pictures in his mind's eye are poetic or demonic, or both. [source] The frog in taffeta pantsEVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2004Article first published online: 12 FEB 200, Kenneth Weiss What is the magic that makes dead flesh fly? [source] "Staged" Rituals and "Veiled" SpellsJOURNAL OF LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2006Yoonhee Kang This article analyzes shifting forms and meanings of two Petalangan traditional genres of verbal magic, a public healing ritual and a genre of personal magical spells, in the context of the Petalangan social marginalization. To explain why and how these two genres have changed differently, this article focuses on the roles of two different language ideologies, the referentialist and performativist views of language, in the mediation between the linguistic and social changes in Petalangan society. Against the prevailing assumption of a linear transition of language ideologies from the performativist to the referentialist view of language in accordance with social modernization, the transformations in the Petalangan magical genres reveal a multifaceted process of change in which multiple language ideologies have worked differently across the genres and contexts. [source] Collagen structure: The molecular source of the tendon magic angle effectJOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, Issue 2 2007Gary D. Fullerton PhD Abstract This review of tendon/collagen structure shows that the orientational variation in MRI signals from tendon, which is referred to as the "magic angle" (MA) effect, is caused by irreducible separation of charges on the main chain of the collagen molecule. These charges are held apart in a vacuum by stereotactic restriction of protein folding due in large part to a high concentration of hydroxyproline ring residues in the amino acids of mammalian collagen. The elevated protein electrostatic energy is reduced in water by the large dielectric constant of the highly polar solvent (, , 80). The water molecules serve as dielectric molecules that are bound by an energy that is nearly equivalent to the electrostatic energy between the neighboring positive and negative charge pairs in a vacuum. These highly immobilized water molecules and secondary molecules in the hydrogen-bonded water network are confined to the transverse plane of the tendon. Orientational restriction causes residual dipole coupling, which is directly responsible for the frequency and phase shifts observed in orientational MRI (OMRI) described by the MA effect. Reference to a wide range of biophysical measurements shows that native hydration is a monolayer on collagen hm = 1.6 g/g, which divides into two components consisting of primary hydration on polar surfaces hpp = 0.8 g/g and secondary hydration hs = 0.8 g/g bridging over hydrophobic surface regions. Primary hydration further divides into side-chain hydration hpsc = 0.54 g/g and main-chain hydration hpmc = 0.263 g/g. The main-chain fraction consists of water that bridges between charges on the main chain and is responsible for almost all of the enthalpy of melting ,H = 70 J/g-dry mass. Main-chain water bridges consist of one extremely immobilized Ramachandran water bridge per tripeptide hRa = 0.0658 g/g and one double water bridge per tripeptide hdwb = 0.1974 g/g, with three water molecules that are sufficiently slowed to act as the spin-lattice relaxation sink for the entire tendon. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2007. © 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] How Far Could Free Religious Thinking Go?JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, Issue 4 2008The Case of Johann Rudolf Werdmüller, Zurich 165 In 1658, Johann(es) Rudolf Werdmüller, a renowned Zurich general and diplomat, was accused of blasphemy. As it referred to essential religious matters, the accusation had a considerable public impact. The court files of the case provide evidence of wider battles over the desirability and nature of religious tolerance. Instead of narrating a case story this analysis suggests a different approach to the history of religion. The sources are not taken as documents expressing a discursive system of philosophical points of view and their appearance in religious polemics. Rather, the court files stand for specific speech acts, i.e. verbal performances in the linguistic sense. Thus, Werdmüller's example is taken to demonstrate that those considered to be blasphemers in the era of confessionalisation did not simply express religious scepticism in the form of "discourses," nor did they rebel against authority figures or resort to forms of magic. Rather, they provoked their society, discussed religious matters, entertained their audience and competed wittingly with those interested in religious issues. In conclusion, it is proposed that the history of religion should not be confined to a history of ideas and religious doctrines but should integrate linguistic approaches. [source] Modern statistics: the myth and the magicJOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY: SERIES A (STATISTICS IN SOCIETY), Issue 2 2009David J. Hand Summary., The paper is a personal exploration of the puzzling contradiction between the fundamental excitement of statistics and its poor public image. It begins with the historical foundations and proceeds through the role of applications and the dramatic impact of the computer in shaping the discipline. The mismatch between the reality of statistics and its public perception arises from a number of dichotomies, some of which are explored. In particular, although statistics is perhaps typically seen as an impersonal discipline, in some sense it is very personal, and many of its applications are aimed at providing unique benefit to individuals. This benefit depends on the creation of detailed data sets describing individuals, but the contrary view is that this represents an invasion of privacy. Some observations on statistical education are made, and issues which will affect the future health of the discipline are examined. [source] Antibiotics: Has the magic gone?JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE, Issue 5 2007Yogesh Chander Abstract The emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria has diminished the efficacy of several antibiotics that were used to treat infectious diseases in humans and animals. In recent years, the problem of antibiotic resistance has become more apparent as increasing numbers of bacteria have acquired resistance to multiple antibiotics. Antibiotics inhibit bacterial growth through a variety of mechanisms including inhibition of cell wall or protein synthesis, interference with DNA (or RNA) replication, and disruption of metabolic pathways or cell membrane. Bacteria develop resistance through genetic mutations or by acquiring resistant genes involved in the production of antibiotic degrading enzymes, overproduction of target molecules, efflux pumps to drain out antibiotics, and/or altered cell wall permeability to survive adverse physiological conditions. Published literature suggests that sub-therapeutic feeding of food animals for growth promotion along with casual use of antibiotics in household products such as soaps and creams is contributing to increased antimicrobial resistance in the environment. If steps are not taken to minimize selective pressure on bacteria, the effectiveness of antibiotics (hailed as ,magic bullets') may be marginalized. Important steps in the judicious use of antibiotics on the farm are: (1) education of farmers on the pitfalls of using antibiotics sub-therapeutically in the production of food animals; (2) development of animal production practices that reduce dependence on antibiotics; and (3) development of manure disposal practices that minimize the spread of residual antibiotics and antibiotic resistant bacteria into the environment. In addition, educating the general public on the use and misuse of antibiotics in daily life is also important if there is to be any significant impact on reducing the environmental spread of antibiotic resistance. Copyright © 2006 Society of Chemical Industry [source] Primates in traditional folk medicine: a world overviewMAMMAL REVIEW, Issue 2 2010Rômulo R. N. ALVES ABSTRACT 1Almost 50% of primate species are in danger of becoming extinct, according to the criteria of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. This is partly because of their consumption by humans. The reasons for hunting vary by region. One pretext is the medicinal or magical value of products derived from these animals. 2In this paper, we provide an overview of the global use of primates in traditional folk medicines as well as identifying the species used as remedies associated with folk beliefs. Some important questions relating to the conservation of primates are addressed. 3Our results revealed that at least 101 species of primates, which belong to 38 genera and 10 families, were used in traditional folk practices and in magic,religious rituals throughout the world. 4Of the 101 species of primates recorded in our review, 12 species were classified as Critically Endangered, 23 as Endangered, 22 as Vulnerable, seven as Near Threatened, 36 as Least Concern and one as Data Deficient in the IUCN Red List. All species were also included in The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora Appendices I or II, although the reasons for their inclusion were not necessarily related to their medicinal use. 5The widespread utilization of primates in traditional medicine is evidence of the importance of understanding such uses in the context of primate conservation as well as the need for considering socio-cultural factors when establishing management plans concerning the sustainable use of these mammals. [source] The Power of Words: Healing Narratives among Lubavitcher HasidimMEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY QUARTERLY, Issue 1 2002Simon Dein The debate concerning the relation between magic and religion has a long history. Instead of separating religion and magic as separate domains, recent work on ritual examines how symbolic and pragmatic acts interrelate. After discussing current theories of religious healing and, specifically, the power of words in healing, this article examines how a group of Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews deals with sickness and the relation between the group's use ofbiomedicine and religious healing. According to the group's mystical text, Tanya, there is an intrinsic link between the physical and the spiritual and between religious words and the body. At times of sickness Lubavitchers communicate with the Rebbe, who instructs them to examine their religious texts. The manipulation of religious words mediated by the Rebbe results in bodily healing. The data confirm the Malinowskian hypothesis that symbolic measures come into play when pragmatic actions fail. Can Lubavitchers be characterized as holding a well-defined model of the healing process? [Lubavitch, Tanya, text, healing] [source] Illness perspectives of Thais diagnosed with schizophreniaNURSING & HEALTH SCIENCES, Issue 3 2009Ladda Sanseeha rn Abstract This study explored the perceptions of 18 people diagnosed with schizophrenia from 1,10 years to uncover how they perceived themselves and their illness. It also involved 12 family members who added their perceptions. The data were collected using in-depth interviews, reflective journaling, and observations. The data were analyzed through the lens of Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology. Four themes emerged: perceptions of mental illness, perceptions of the causes of illness, perceptions of discrimination, and attempting to live with schizophrenia. The findings included strong underlying cultural and spiritual beliefs, and attitudes unique to the Thai participants, including the causation of schizophrenia by supernatural powers, black magic, and bad karma stemming from past deeds. Understanding the perceptions of the participants might help health-care providers to be more sensitive to those living with schizophrenia in Thailand and elsewhere. In particular, the findings could be useful in informing psychiatric careproviders about developing better caring systems for clients diagnosed with schizophrenia. This should help the sufferers of schizophrenia to live their lives to their own satisfaction and as normally as possible. [source] In Memory of the Father: Laurence S. MossAMERICAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY, Issue 3 2010Joshua Louis Moss A personal reflection on the life and philosophy of the late Laurence S. Moss (former editor of the AJES) by his son, Joshua Louis Moss. Mixing personal anecdote with a general academic analysis, Moss informally examines his father's intellectual beginnings in the 1960s drawn from the lectures of Ludwig Von Mises, and traces this through his father's development of innovative teaching techniques like the incorporation of stage magic. Moss examines his father's intellectual contrarianism and canonical skepticism as key developmental foundations used to build his father's academic and pedagogical approach. Moss examines his father's interest in expanding economics through a cross-disciplinary approach utilizing philosophy, history, sociology, and performance studies through his father's innovative examination of points of contact between the principles of stage magic and the principles of economic theory. [source] Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium".ORBIS LITERARUM, Issue 1 2010The "Esoteric" Four-Stanza Structure The celebrated W. B. Yeats was a superb verbal technician who evolved from writing lyrical verse in his youth to a sparser, more "metaphysical" style of poetry in his later years. Quite often, these mature poems can be seen as visionary expressions of a life spent as unorthodox spiritual adventurer , Yeats was for twenty-one years an avid member of the Golden Dawn, a group whose practice of ritual magic centered on their own occult, rather eccentrically eclectic interpretation of the Kabbala. The poet himself readily attested to the profound influence his association with that order had on his own thinking. Nevertheless, the impact of this esoteric background has not often been expounded in detail within critical analyses of his work. In partial rectification, this paper will undertake an analysis of one of his most enigmatic poems, "Sailing to Byzantium," utilizing key doctrines drawn from the Hermetic Kabbala, doctrines that themselves depend largely on a Neoplatonic substratum. The ensuing interpretation will strive to demonstrate that the four stanzas of the poem conform to a fourfold metaphysical-ontological division that occurs within both the Hermetic Kabbala and Classical Neoplatonism, a division that tends to construe states of being as differing modes of consciousness. [source] Intravenous neonatal paracetamol dosing: the magic of 10 daysPEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA, Issue 4 2009BRIAN J. ANDERSON PhD FANZCA First page of article [source] It isn't magic, it's sciencePERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT, Issue 10 2009Dale M. Brethower CPT The foundation in science of human performance technology is exemplified in Geary A. Rummler's work. His work was guided by two questions: What are the variables that measure the results desired? What variables must we manage to achieve those results? Rummler developed science-based tools to find and manage the variables. His work connects to science in ways that illustrate the signature line of his emails: "It Isn't Magic, It's Science." [source] Forms of Our Life: Wittgenstein and the Later HeideggerPHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS, Issue 3 2010Michael Weston The paper argues that an internal debate within Wittgensteinian philosophy leads to issues associated rather with the later philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Rush Rhees's identification of the limitations of the notion of a "language game" to illuminate the relation between language and reality leads to his discussion of what is involved in the "reality" of language: "anything that is said has sense-if living has sense, not otherwise." But what is it for living to have sense? Peter Winch provides an interpretation and application of Rhees's argument in his discussion of the "reality" of Zande witchcraft and magic in "Understanding a Primitive Society". There he argues that such sense is provided by a language game concerned with the ineradicable contingency of human life, such as (he claims) Zande witchcraft to be. I argue, however, that Winch's account fails to answer the question why Zande witchcraft can find no application within our lives. I suggest that answering this requires us to raise the question of why Zande witchcraft "fits" with their other practices but cannot with ours, a question of "sense" which cannot be answered by reference to another language game. I use Joseph Epes Brown's account of Native American cultures (in Epes Brown 2001) as an exemplification of a form of coherence that constitutes what we may call a "world". I then discuss what is involved in this, relating this coherence to a relation to the temporal, which provides an internal connection between the senses of the "real" embodied in the different linguistic practices of these cultures. I relate this to the later Heidegger's account of the "History of Being", of the historical worlds of Western culture and increasingly of the planet. I conclude with an indication of concerns and issues this approach raises, ones characteristic of "Continental" rather than Wittgensteinian philosophy. [source] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||