The Egyptian Book of the Dead, a collection of coffin texts, has long been thought by Egyptologists to describe the journey of the soul in the afterlife, or the Am Duat. In fact, the so – called Book of the Dead describes the invisible Substratum, the “black hole” form of matter to which all matter returns, and from which all matter arises. The hieroglyphics of the Papyrus of Ani, for example, ...

The relatively new field of open educational resources (OER) is just now receiving more widespread attention and study. As such, there have been few opportunities thus far to share knowledge across program, organizational and national boundaries. This article presents a case study of the development of the South African project Free High School Science Texts (FHSST). Based on observations of pr...

Using a Burkean framework (1969), this article approaches medical dramas as cultural texts to be read for dominant meanings of health and health care. Burke's representative anecdote illuminates the melding of science, technology, and healing in popular discourses of health, establishing technological intervention as the norm and marginalizing nontechnological (i.e., alternative) forms of healt...

In this article, I intend to concentrate on one type of process by which Scots has found new legitimation as a language, and how discourses surrounding the issue of Scots might seek to contribute to the creation of a new Scottish society. I whish to show how history is used as a legitimating discursive device by the various components of the Scots language revitalisation movement. The question ...

Nitrogen balance of a boreal Scots pine forest J. F. J. Korhonen, M. Pihlatie, J. Pumpanen, H. Aaltonen, P. Hari, J. Levula, A.-J. Kieloaho, E. Nikinmaa, T. Vesala, and H. Ilvesniemi Department of Physics, P.O. Box 48, 00 014, University of Helsinki, Finland Department of Forest Sciences, P.O. Box 27, 00 014, University of Helsinki, Finland Hyytiälä Forestry Field station, Hyytiäläntie 124, 35 ...

OBJECTIVE Mobile health (mHealth) interventions may improve diabetes outcomes, but require engagement. Little is known about what factors impede engagement, so the authors examined the relationship between patient factors and engagement in an mHealth medication adherence promotion intervention for low-income adults with type 2 diabetes (T2DM). MATERIALS AND METHODS Eighty patients with T2DM p...

Background: Love is seen as important as a basis for the caring-relationship but very few studies have examined the ontological relationship between love and health. Aims: The aim of the study is to uncover a deeper understanding of love as the core of life and as the human being’s source of strength as well as love’s relationship to health. The research questions are: what characterizes love a...

BACKGROUND Electronic health records are invaluable for medical research, but much of the information is recorded as unstructured free text which is time-consuming to review manually. AIM To develop an algorithm to identify relevant free texts automatically based on labelled examples. METHODS We developed a novel machine learning algorithm, the 'Semi-supervised Set Covering Machine' (S3CM),...