“Now he walks and walks, as if he didn’t have a home where he could eat”: Food, Healing, and Hunger in Quechua Narratives of Madness

"Now he walks and walks, as if he didn't have a home where he could eat": food, healing, and hunger in Quechua narratives of madness.

In the Quechua-speaking peasant communities of southern Peru, mental disorder is understood less as individualized pathology and more as a disturbance in family and social relationships. For many Andeans, food and feeding are ontologically fundamental to such relationships. This paper uses data from interviews and participant observation in a rural province of Cuzco to explore the significance ...

Autoionization of He and Autodetachment of He- following Bombardment by H+, H2+, He+, and He Atoms

Calculations of the binding energies of weakly bound He–He–H, He–He–H− and He–H–H molecules

We searched for the existence of weakly bound He–He–H, He–He–H− and He–H– H molecules where the binding energies are expected to be of the order of degrees Kelvin. By employing the best empirical interaction between each pair of particles, we solved the Schrödinger equation for the triatomic systems using hyperspherical coordinates in the adiabatic approximation. We found no bound states for 4H...

Bateson Did Not Define "information" as "a Difference That Makes a Difference" (and He Would Have Been Rather Silly If He Had.)

Obviously the phrase "a difference that makes a difference" resonates powerfully with many people. Perhaps this is because it is a pointer to a very common and important kind of complexity, in which systems are composed of linked, tightly coupled, sub-systems whose causal relationships have the property that any event in one sub-system (e.g. some property, value or relationship changing, or a p...

The Evolution of 3 He , 4 He and D in

In this work we present the predictions of a modified version of the “two-infall model” (Chiappini et al. 1997) for the evolution of He, He and D in the Galaxy, as well as their distributions along the Galactic disk. In particular, we show that when allowing for extra-mixing process in low mass stars (M< 2.5 M⊙), as predicted by Charbonnel and do Nascimento (1998), a long standing problem in ch...