Social systems theory is dominated by a reductionistic individualism and a dualistic functionalism. Especially the latter doesn’t adequately integrate the human being. In order to avoid dualism, mechanistic determinism and reductionism, a dialectical concept of social systems that is based on the notion of self-organization seems necessary. In order to establish a dialectical theory of social s...

Cognitive neuroscience has been driven by the idea that by reductionist analysis of mechanisms within a solitary brain one can best understand how the human mind is constituted and what its nature is. The brain thus came to appear as the creator of the mind and the experienced world. In contrast, the paper argues for an ecological view of mind and brain as both being embedded in the relation of...

The ability of observers to execute saccades in the dark to previously visible targets has been demonstrated by Becker and Fuchs (1969) and Becker and Klein (1973). Becker and Fuchs report the occurrence of horizontal saccades when a target, 40’ away from fixation. was extinguished 350 msec prior to the initiation of the saccade. Becker and Klein report that observers, after practicing horizont...

We extend the discussion of mirror symmetry, Picard-Fuchs equations, instanton-corrected Yukawa couplings, and the topological one-loop partition function to the case of complete intersections with higher-dimensional moduli spaces. We will develop a new method of obtaining the instanton-corrected Yukawa couplings through a study of the solutions of the Picard-Fuchs equations. This leads to clos...

We show how to evaluate the periods in Seiberg-Witten theories and in K3-fibered Calabi-Yau manifolds by using fibrations of the theories. In the Seiberg-Witten theories, it is shown that the dual pair of fields can be constructed from the classical fields in a simple form. As for Calabi-Yau manifolds which are fibrations of K3 surface, we obtain the solutions of the Picard-Fuchs equations from...

PURPOSE We aimed to discuss the possible role of developmental embryologic factors in neural crest cells in the aetiology of keratoconus and Fuchs' heterochromic iridocyclitis by presenting this case. CASE REPORT We diagnosed bilateral keratoconus and unilateral Fuchs' heterochromic iridocyclitis in a 19 year old women complaining of progressively blurring vision in her left eye. We also exam...

It is generally accepted that rapid eye movements (REM) are the most characteristic phenomenon of paradoxical sleep among birds and mammals. This is the reason why Dement and Kleitman (1957) who first described this kind of sleep, called it REM-sleep. The occurrence of REM during paradoxical sleep is fairly well described in humans (Mouret and Jeanne~od 1964, Gabersek and Scherrer 1969), monkey...

The ability of observers to execute saccades in the dark to previously visible targets has been demonstrated by Becker and Fuchs (1969) and Becker and Klein (1973). Becker and Fuchs report the occurrence of horizontal saccades when a target, 40’ away from fixation. was extinguished 350 msec prior to the initiation of the saccade. Becker and Klein report that observers, after practicing horizont...

Anterior portions of the central corneas of Fuchs' combined dystrophy were studied with the electron microscope, with the use of the same corneal buttons as in Part I of this study, in which changes of the posterior portions were reported. The epithelium showed various grades of cellular edema, mostly in the basal layer. Some of the edematous cells appeared to burst and coalesce to form subepit...

-It is shown that, for site percolation on the dual Dirichlet tiling graph of a co-compact Fuchsian group of genus > 2, infinitely many infinite connected clusters exist almost surely for certain values of the parameter p = P{site is open). In such cases, the set of limit points at oo of an infinite cluster is shown to be a perfect, nowhere dense set of Lebesgue measure 0. These results are als...