Holistic processing—the tendency to perceive objects as indecomposable wholes—has long been viewed as a process specific to faces or objects of expertise. Although current theories differ in what causes holistic processing, they share a fundamental constraint for its generalization: Nonface objects cannot elicit facelike holistic processing in the absence of expertise. Contrary to this prevaili...

BACKGROUND Previous research has shown that object recognition may develop well into late childhood and adolescence. The present study extends that research and reveals novel differences in holistic and analytic recognition performance in 7-12 year olds compared to that seen in adults. We interpret our data within a hybrid model of object recognition that proposes two parallel routes for recogn...

Dean Ornish of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California has created an intensive holistic treatment for coronary heart patients with improved diet (low fat, whole foods, plant based), exercise, stress management, and social support that has proven to be efficient. In this paper, we analyze the rationale behind his cure in relation to contemporary holistic medical theo...

Biomedicine focuses on the biochemistry of the body, while consciousness-based medicine--holistic medicine--focuses on the individual"s experiences and conscious whole (Greek: holos, whole). Biomedicine perceives diseases as mechanical errors at the micro level, while consciousness-based medicine perceives diseases as disturbances in attitudes, perceptions, and experiences at the macro level--i...

A hyperproperty is a set of sets of finite or infinite traces over some fixed alphabet and can be seen as a very generic system specification. In this work, we define the notions of holistic and incremental hyperproperties. Systems specified holistically tend to be more intuitive but difficult to reason about, whereas incremental specifications have a straightforward verification approach. Sinc...

Søren Ventegodt, MD, MMedSci, EU-MScCAM, Niels Jørgen Andersen, MSc and Isack Kandel, MA, PhD Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark; Scandinavian Foundation for Holistic Medicine, Sandvika, Norway; Interuniversity College, Graz, Austria; Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Behavio...

This article demonstrates the disadvantages of specialization of modern medicine in nine aspects. Holistic Integrative Medicine will be the direction and the only way for the development of medicine in future. Holistic Integrative Medicine should be advocated and accelerated in both theoretical and practical levels.

Despite significant attention and substantial efforts both in industry and academia, cloud computing has yet to reach its full potential. Commonly stated obstacles for cloud adoption include confusion due to multiple delivery models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) and deployment scenarios (public clouds, private clouds, cloud bursting etc.). Other frequent concerns relate to risks with outsourcing, data leg...

What is it, and how can we achieve it? Summary This paper develops a systematic and logically consistent model of holistic healthcare. Holism refers to an approach to health which acknowledges that health depends upon many interrelated components which interact in such a way that the overall effect constitutes health (or illness). The current understanding of illness is, in contrast, linear and...

Biodiversity is nature's expression of the principle of holism. This 'natural holistic imperative' is manifested in all aspects of the environment. While environmental health originated through a concern for protecting humans from environmental risks, it is now concerned with protecting the environment from the activities of humans. In order to protect the health of humans, there is a need to b...