Stormy seas

Sailing Stormy Seas: The Illness Experience of Persons with Parkinson's Disease

Parkinson's disease is a chronic, progressive disorder with no known cause or promising cure. While substantial information is known about the pathophysiology, little is known about the illness experience of living with the disease. A qualitative study using an ethnographic approach was conducted to provide a rich understanding of the illness experience. The illness experience was apprehended t...

Stormy Seas and Cloudy Skies: Conceptual Processing is (Still) Linguistic and Perceptual

(e.g., falcon and dolphin) and spatial position (high or low) that is reported in several studies (Zwaan and Yaxley, 2003; Meier and Robinson, 2004; Šetić and Domijan, 2007). The first explanation is that readers understand concept by perceptual simulation. We “hear” the dolphin and see it swimming in the ocean. The second explanation for the processing advantage between congruency of meaning (...

Stormy Seas for Some North American Songbirds: Are Declines Related to Severe Storms During Migration?

‘‘Many large flocks of birds flew over, coming from the north and flying to the SW. They were more varied in kind than any we had seen before and they were land birds . . . . I know that most of the islands discovered by the Portuguese have been found because of birds.’’—Christopher Columbus, east of Bermuda, 7 October 1492 Several hypotheses have been presented to explain population declines i...

Hydrogen from Stormy Oceans

Stormy weather for Labour's NHS reforms.