Hallucinations and related concepts—their conceptual background

Hallucinations and related concepts—their conceptual background

Prior to the seventeenth century, the experiences we now name hallucinations were valued within a cultural context, they could bring meaning to the subject or the world. From mid-seventeenth to eighteenth centuries, they acquire a medical quality in mental and organic illnesses. However, the term was only fully integrated in psychiatry by Esquirol in the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries. By then...

information literacy self-efficacy: conceptual framework and research background

purpose: the present paper aims to relate self-efficacy as an important psychological construct to information literacy as an essential requisite of the information society.methodology: reviewing related literature in communication, sociology, information science and computer science.findings: self-efficacy could increase interest, efforts, enjoy, self-regulation and performance. it is consider...

Background and Related Works

Visual hallucinations related to use of ertapenem.

ଝ Alucinaciones visuales en relación al uso de ertapenem Use of carbapenem has expanded in the last few years due to increased microbial resistance. This increase in use has made it easier to observe rare side effects in clinical practice, such as those we describe here. We present the case of a 76-year-old woman with a personal history of renal transplant due to C virus-related liver disease. ...

Entropy-like functionals: conceptual background and some results

We describe a conceptual approach which provides a unified view of various entropy-like functionals on the class of semimetric spaces, endowed with a bounded measure. The entropy E considered in the author’s previous articles is modified so as to assume finite values for a fairly wide class of spaces which fail to be totally bounded.