Nostalgia, to some people, may seem foolhardy in a way. However, nostalgia is a completely and intensely private but social, collective emotion. It has continuing consequence and outgrowth for our lives as social actions. It leads people to hunt and explore remembrance of persons and places of our past in an effort to confer meaning of persons and places of present. In the ‘Poems of 1912-13’ Th...

This paper explores conceptions of rural-tourist landscapes in late nineteenth century Vermont. Traditionally, scholarly and popular discourse about rural tourism have identified nostalgia and the tourist’s search for harmonious pastoral landscapes as dominant themes in tourist promotions, and as dominant motivations for tourist travel. This paper adds alternative perspectives to this discourse...

Abstract Cyborg insects have been proposed for applications such as urban search and rescue. Body-mounted energy-harvesting devices are critical expanding the range of activity functionality cyborg insects. However, their power outputs limited to less than 1 mW, which is considerably lower those required wireless locomotion control. The area load energy harvesting device impair mobility tiny ro...

With the exception of some texts directed to patients and families, Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: Patho-physiology — Diagnosis — Treatment represents the first dedicated on normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), a condition that the authors find important due to its similarities in presentation to neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. The authors assert that a full textbook de...

utopian literature, in terms of content, includes the dream of a world with better and ideal conditions or an image of favorable and yet abstract (nowhere) world. based on a single main motivation, nostalgia and the desire to return to eternal origin and due to the intellectual paradigms form them, this genre has formed certain structures. from the perspective of realizing the origin and having...