Ecodesign is examined critically starting from an expanded definition of sustainability. Traditional ecodesign objectives arise from the naturalistic dimension of sustainability, but often fail to account for absolute limits of the global ecosystem. A second, generally overlooked dimension is humanistic, directed at the underlying human drive to satisfy manifold domains of flourishing. Achievin...

This study sought to identify what characteristics faculty who are effective classroom communicators share. Qualitative methods of interviews and observations were used to collect data at two public, comprehensive universities. College faculty with good communication, particularly, immediacy and clarity, were all found to have humanistic views of their students and to be reflective about their ...

Since ‘the development of whole person’ was brought to the focus of attention by humanist psychologists as a central concern in educational theory, affective variables have been assumed to have a significant share in the learning process that goes on in a pedagogical setting. Meanwhile, the process of second language development, because of the very nature of language as a vehicle for communica...

The scientific academies of early modern Europe have long been recognized for their critical role in incubating and legitimating the Scientific Revolution. So also, academies dedicated to vernacular literature and language, opera and ballet, art and design, and speculative philosophy all contributed greatly to the emergence of new humanistic art forms. Rarely, though, have scholars asked whethe...

This article considers a special area where pure scientism, separated from humanistic perspectives, has come to define a perspective broadly termed posthumanism, where the modification of human nature is too easily embraced as progress. The humanistic response to this scientism is equally central in this reflection. I offer a perspective on the futility of pure scientism with regard to human pr...

Eastern Buddhist thoughts were spread from India to China where, after evolution and internalization, they became part of nuclear Chinese concepts. Since it is claimed that Buddhist thoughts are theories to explain world phenomena and human thoughts and behavior, it is worthy to study them. Western management science classifies management activity elements into decision-making activities, mecha...

doing justice to Freud's text, to Schreber's text, and to a few others, less memorable, besides, Chabot baulks at the prospect of writing the history of the real, whether it be of psychoanalysis or of individual texts-all he allows psychoanalysis to aspire to is the narrative history of fiction, in place of the historical reconstruction of (psychic) reality. Reading as a literary critic does, r...

The paper presents the experience of a course (3D Graphics for Cultural Heritage) in the context of Humanistic Informatics degree. The goal of the course was to present an overview of the techniques for the acquisition of 3D models of real objects. The focus was put on freeware/open source solutions that could give the students the possibility to experiment directly on the data, and possibly ap...

BACKGROUND Patient support programs (PSPs), including medication management and counseling, have the potential to improve care in chronic disease states with complex therapies. Little is known about the program's effects on improving clinical, adherence, humanistic, and cost outcomes. PURPOSE To conduct a targeted review describing medical conditions in which PSPs have been implemented; suppo...