BACKGROUND The medical humanities is a broad area of study and practice encompassing all nontechnical or 'human' aspects of medicine. OBJECTIVE This article introduces a series in the medical humanities in Australian Family Physician. DISCUSSION The medical humanities serve three main goals: the study of the human aspects of medicine from within traditional arts disciplines of history, phil...

Now, thirty-two years after graduating from the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing (BS ‘84) in my hometown of Richmond, I can safely say that the single most important course I took in nursing school was not in nursing. Rather, it was a health humanities and medical ethics course taught in the School of Medicine by a hospital chaplain, Reverend Bob Yo...

A microneutralization fluorescent-antibody (MFA) test was effective in determining the level of antibodies to avian infectious bronchitis virus. A comparison of the MFA test with the cytopathic effect microneutralization (MNT) test and 50% plaque reduction (PR) test resulted in positive correlations that were significant (P less than 0.001). The PR test was more sensitive than either the MFA or...

A general self-consistency approach allows a thorough treatment of the corrections to the standard mean-field approximation (MFA). The natural extension of standard MFA with the help of a cumulant expansion leads to a new point of view on the MF theories. The proposed approach can be used for a systematic treatment of fluctuation effects of various length scales and, perhaps, for the developmen...

Selected waste management scenarios were evaluated with regard to the goals of the Austrian Waste Management Act, taking into account long-term environmental protection and resource conservation as well as costs. Municipal solid waste (MSW) and sewage sludge have been chosen as the system inputs. The scenarios were compared to the status-quo scenario by combining Material Flow Analysis (MFA) an...

In China, with the rapid economic development and general improvement of people's quality, traditional mode art education has been unable to meet needs social development. The outline 14th Five-Year Plan calls for building a high-quality system promoting modernization education. process vigorously new curriculum reform, overall educational goal cultivating students' "core qualities" all-round d...

Minarik, Martin. 2017. ‘Ideological Efficacy before Martial Efficacy: On the Relationship Between Martial Arts, Theatricality and Society’, Martial Arts Studies 5, 61-71. Martial arts, gendai budō, mudo, performance, theatricality, training, ethics, aesthetics, semiotics, embodiment, taekwondo, karate-do. 10.18573/mas.50 This article relates the training of gendai budō/mudo to theatrical perfor...