Abstract The cultivation of mindfulness in early Buddhist soteriology can comprise awareness an absence. Such absence be specific, the sense a particular mental condition. It also take on general sense, that certain meditation practices involve as their object notion there is nothing at all. Besides being standard approach for cultivating one immaterial spheres, pre-Buddhist form practice, same...

OBJECTIVE To explore the feasibility of dual-source dual-energy computed tomography (DSDECT) for hepatic iron and fat separation in vivo. MATERIALS AND METHODS All of the procedures in this study were approved by the Research Animal Resource Center of Shanghai Ruijin Hospital. Sixty rats that underwent DECT scanning were divided into the normal group, fatty liver group, liver iron group, and ...

We describe a new publicly available algorithm for identifying absent sequences, and demonstrate its use by listing the smallest oligomers not found in the human genome (human "nullomers"), and those not found in any reported genome or GenBank sequence ("primes"). These absent sequences define the maximum set of potentially lethal oligomers. They also provide a rational basis for choosing artif...

This commentary refers to the article, Absent fetal hand: a case report, published in Australasian Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine May 2010 13 (2). This case raises difficult ethical issues about the use of medical imaging in pregnancy, including the role that a diagnosis of foetal disability or abnormality should play in decisions about late terminations. In Australia, late termination is ty...

This paper attempts to put the research on human rationality into proper context by looking at it across disciplines and by identifying the main questions that propelled research in di erent elds. Experimental psychology produced many results that need to be evaluated critically for a complete understanding of the concept. The present paper presents some of these numerous ndings, but mostly foc...

Hot tar burns are still a challenging clinical form because the removal of tar is very difficult for the emergency physician and there is no specified appropriate agent for the removal of tar. In this study, two patients with hot tar burns who were treated with diesel, sunflower oil and mayonnaise are presented.