A cultural-psychological analysis emphasizes the intentionality of everyday worlds: the idea that material products not only bear psychological traces of culturally constituted beliefs and desires, but also subsequently afford and promote culturally consistent understandings and actions. We applied this conceptual framework of mutual constitution in a research project using quantitative and qua...

Iridology is the study of the iris of the eye to detect the conditions of the body and its organs, genetic strengths and weaknesses, etc. Although iridology is not widely used as a scientific tool for healthcare professionals to get to the source of people's health conditions, it has been used as a supplementary source to help the diagnosis of medical conditions by noting irregularities of the ...

OBJECTIVES The current study was performed to compare the bee venom pharmacopuncture skin test reactions among groups with different sexes and Sasang constitutions. METHODS Between July 2012 and June 2013, all 76 patients who underwent bee venom pharmacopuncture skin tests and Sasang constitution diagnoses at Oriental Medicine Hospital of Sangji University were included in this study. The ski...

The evolution of studies of political parties of constitution: The first and second periods show that the evolution of parties indicates that researchers' attitude to political pheno-mena also coincide with the evolution of political realities has been transformed, and the consideration of ideologies in the analysis of the parties have replaced with religious perspectives and anti-authoritarian...

In a Harvard Law Review foreword published in 2000, and entitled ‘The Document and the Doctrine’, Professor Akhil Reed Amar argued –putting it bluntly – that the Constitution of the United States of America ‘has often proved more enlightened and enlightening than the case law glossing it’.1 Professor Amar acknowledged, of course, that the Constitution has to be interpreted by the Supreme Court,...

The 2005 British presidency of the European Union, begun in the aftermath of the rejection of the European Constitution by the electorates of France and the Netherlands, brought with it a renewed focus on the challenges of globalization and economic reform. Freed of the Sisiphean task of selling the Constitution to a sceptical British public, the British government moved on to the offensive, ar...

Objective. We report on the distribution of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) constitution in the first trimester and on the association between TCM constitution and maternal symptoms related to pregnancy. Methods. Participants were followed up until delivery to observe primary measures (gestational hypertension and gestational diabetes mellitus) and secondary measures (signs of miscarriage, m...