According to the five commentaries (Kim, Eells & Stiles, Rosenbaum, Molina & del Rio, and Gratier), the author tries to clarify the main cultural concept of utushi and ma. The work of utushi is discussed in its four aspects-in terms of affect, mimesis, reflection and cognitive change. Ma activates a proto-conversation that involves the tonus—a subtle sense of change on body sensation-in the the...

In this paper we consider the population of eccentric binaries with a neutron star and a white dwarf that has been revealed in our galaxy in recent years through binary pulsar observations. We apply our statistical analysis method (Kim, Kalogera, & Lorimer 2003) and calculate the Galactic formation rate of these binaries empirically. We then compare our results with rate predictions based on bi...

Title of Document: TRACKING THE COST HEURISTIC: A RULE OF THUMB IN CHOICE OF COUNTERFINAL MEANS. Kristen Marie Klein, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Directed By: Professor Arie W. Kruglanski, Psychology Department Domain-specific empirical evidence shows that people sometimes infer a correlation between the cost of an item or behavior (e.g., price, effort) and its quality or efficacy (e.g., Labroo ...

While a precise forecast for the next decade is clearly impossible, some of the major challenges that need to be addressed in the next 10-20 years can be identified. These include problems of repositories, the changing scope of cultural heritage; new links between national, regional and local; between culture, knowledge and scholarship; European approaches to intellectual property and to models...

the Christian theology of religions. Introduction A remarkable revival of Trinitarian theology emerged in the twentieth century. Karl Rahner, on the Catholic side, and Karl Barth, on the Protestant side, played key roles in the “ecumenical rediscovery” of the Trinity. In addition to rethinking elements of this central doctrine (e.g., nature of divine personhood, Filioque, etc.), this resurgence...

A book on demography without statistics, graphs or charts: is this possible? Peter Biller has masterfully shown not only that it is possible, but that a textual approach to demographic questions in Latin Christendom before the Black Death (especially around 1300) enormously enriches our understanding of demographic trends in a period which lacks systematic statistical data, in which statistical...

Department of Health Education; Department of Epidemiology, School of Health, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to F. Rakhshani: [email protected]). 2Department of Health Education, Tarbiat Moddares University, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. ABSTRACT A qualitative study in Zahedan, Islamic Republic of Iran, used focus group discussio...